Workshops

• Workshop A: Mastering DFSS to Create and Maximize Value for Your Business and Customers
• Workshop B: Implementing and Managing a LSS Culture in Biopharmaceuticals: Brainstorming with LSS Experts from GSK
• Workshop C: Selecting, Designing and Managing Lean Six Sigma Projects Using Economic Valuation
• Workshop D: What’s Next After Lean Six Sigma?
• Workshop E: Achieving Lab Excellence with Lean and Kaizen Implementations

---

Pre-Conference Workshops: February 22, Monday

8:00 am – 10:30 am Workshop A : Mastering DFSS to Create and Maximize Value for Your Business and Customers - Registration 7:45 (Coffee Served)

With more and more companies embracing the Six Sigma philosophies and tools, new questions have arisen, especially from the areas where new processes are needed. DFSS has been identified as a vital strategy to create and maximize value for the organization’s performance and customer satisfaction. In this master class, we will walk you through the key principles and tools for DFSS to achieve maximum results.

What will be Covered:

• Understanding why we need DFSS and where DFSS processes can be applied
• Elaborating the DFSS principles: Define – Measure – Analyze – Design – Verify
• Understanding the differences and similarities between DMADV and DMAIC
• Demonstrating the DFSS value stream and value creation with specific case studies

How will you benefit:

• Learn the key principles and toolkits for DFSS
• Streamline the DFSS design processes with a crystal-clear understanding of thetoolkits
• Obtain the practical techniques to help you strategize and implement your DFSS project

Workshop Leader:

Jeff Slutsky
Global Director of DFSS
Bausch&Lomb Inc.

11:00 am – 1:30 pm Workshop B: Implementing and Managing a LSS Culture in Biopharmaceuticals: Brainstorming with LSS Experts from GSK - Registration 10:45 pm (Lunch Served)

No matter where you are in your Lean Six Sigma journey, addressing the needs of the people to sustain a program or a project implementation is difficult. While some of us are better than others, no one has completely mastered this arena, where there is always room for improvement. As a panel workshop, we will review the various approaches, success stories, failure anecdotes, and reflect on how these essons can be applied to our own organizations.

What will be covered:

• Demonstrating GSK timeline of starts/stops/restarts
• Highlighting key programs, projects and initiatives
• Open floor to others who have experience
• How do you keep it going?
• How do you get everyone (from top to bottom) involved?
• How do you make sure that it's not just the full-time experts doing the work?
• How do you continually engage the Advocates and GBs?
• How do you integrate R&D with manufacturing? {How do you approach commercialization?}
• How do you get over the fear of using and applying Six Sigma?
• How do you get the right people involved at the right time on the right initiative?

How will you benefit:

• Join the panel discussion to participate in the journey of LSS culture management
• Learn and experience the essential success factor for both products and LSS programs and how to stay in tune with the culture
• Learn from experienced LSS experts and apply lessons to your organization
• Extensive case studies will be explored

Panel Workshop Leaders:

Lyndi Gillespie Operational Excellence Expert, Global Manufacturing & Supply Biopharm GlaxoSmithKline	Deepa Kumar Operational Excellence Expert, Global Manufacturing & Supply Biopharm GlaxoSmithKline
Kimberly Palladino LSS MBB, Biopharm R&D GlaxoSmithKline

2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Workshop C: Selecting, Designing and Managing Lean Six Sigma Projects Using Economic Valuation - Registration 1:45 pm (Refreshment Served)

Six Sigma projects, just as any other project in a company, have economic value, downside risk and upside potential. Such projects may have upfront investments, require some time before benefits can be achieved and often have technical risks. The value of a project is a function of these costs, timelines, risks and anticipated benefits.
However, none of these can be determined in a precise fashion before the project can be undertaken. All of these are uncertain, but they often provide flexibility to change course in the future. Decision Options is a holistic method to calculate economic value when uncertainties and decision flexibilities are present. Using economic value and associated downside risk and upside potential, companies can make better selection, design and management decisions of Six Sigma projects. The workshop will focus on demonstrating these tools and techniques through case studies.

What will be covered:

• Valuing Six Sigma projects, options and alternatives using decision options
• Using economic value, downside risk and upside potential in making selection and design decisions
• Managing a portfolio of projects to maximize value
• Collecting the necessary data, build models and present results using Decision Options Technology (DoT)

How will you benefit:

• Create a systematic process for the identification and selection of competing projects and alternatives, yielding faster and better decisions
• Create a portfolio management process for Six Sigma projects for maximizing value and making dynamic decisions resulting in faster and better management and tracking
• Implement a process for the evaluation of all alternatives - existing and new to assure consistency in all decision processes
• Build consensus faster with an easy-to-understand and consistent set of tools and processes

Workshop Leaders:

Gill Eapen CFA Founder and Managing Principal Decision Options, LLC

Jennifer Miller Executive Director Pfizer

5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Workshop D: What’s Next After Lean Six Sigma? - Registration 4:45 pm (Dinner Served)

Considerable progress has been made in the use of Lean Six Sigma to improve the performance of life science industries. Many are now asking what’s next and what can be done after implementing Lean Six Sigma? Just as business improvement approaches have grown and evolved over the last 100 years, so is Lean Six Sigma.
This workshop addresses recent developments in the use of Lean Six Sigma and how you can measure, evaluate, benchmark and update the approach used by your organization. The session will be highly interactive, using a mixture of material presentations, discussions and responses to participants’ questions.

What will be covered:

• Moving from project-by-project improvement to continuous improvement
• Change management methods needed to sustain the deployment of Lean Six Sigma
• Development of a project portfolio approach to identification and management of improvement
• Process management systems that integrate process design, improvement and control
• Holistic thinking that makes improvement a business process that is integral to how the business is operated

How will you benefit:

• Understand key methods that will help you lead your organization toward more effective improvement
• Study ideas on how they can be more effective in their leading improvement initiatives
• Learning from case studies that demonstrate the benefits of using a more holistic approach to improvement

Workshop Leader:

Ron Snee
President
Snee Associates, LLC.

Mid-Conference Workshops: February 23, Tuesday

5:30pm – 8:00pm Workshop E: Achieving Lab Excellence with Lean and Kaizen Implementations - Registration 5:15pm (Dinner will be served)

Over the past decade, many of the leading manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and biologics have applied Lean principles to their manufacturing processes, resulting in dramatic improvements in cycle times, quality, and productivity. To realize the full benefits that Lean can offer however, requires applying the same principles in the lab, resulting in dramatically reduced cycle times, improved lab capacity, and streamlined process flows, all while increasing compliance.

What will be covered:

• The Case for Action: Assess opportunities and develop a business case
• Achieving quick wins through Kaizen: Reduce cycle time, eliminate non-value added steps, streamline sample flow
• Managing a Lean lab: Create a performance management system, establish a visual workplace, define standard work
• Designing a Lean Quality System: Leverage suppliers, streamline procedures, utilize PAT

How will you benefit:

• Learn how to implement Lab Excellence within your manufacturing or research labs
• Understand how to utilize Lean to dramatically reduce release cycle time, increase productivity, and reduce deviations
• Discover best practices and critical success factors
• Become exposed to real case studies and examples for how to utilize Lean in the lab

Workshop Leader:

Thomas Bertels
Partner
Valeocon Management Consulting

Thomas is responsible for Valeocon's practice in the United States and leading the firm's life sciences practice. He is a widely recognized expert on Operational Excellence and has worked extensively with leading firms such as Pfizer, Novartis, J&J, and Lonza.

[ Register Now ]