On Wednesday April 14^th, 2010 the Windsor Consortiums inaugural Strategic Interest Group Event (SIG) took place…..It was a resounding success! Norm Marcoux and Darryl Dufresne of Advanced Machining Services hosted the event at their very impressive facility located at 3232 Electricity Dr. in Windsor.

The goal of this first event was for members to meet each other, talk about some of the issues they are facing and benchmark/best practice share with each other.

Norm and Darryl from Advanced shared a best practice with the other members. They explained how they very successfully diversified and grew their business into doing work in areas such as the oil & drilling sector. Areas touched on included how they got into a new market, the mistakes the made and what they learnt from them. Also, how they use other talented Windsor manufacturers in their product process. 

Members than took an in depth tour of Advanced Machining Services, a very impressive facility. Both their people and product operations were reviewed by the group spending close to 45 minutes on Advanced Shop floor.

After the tour members participated in a group continuous improvement exercise. Each person in attendance was asked to note three things they saw on the tour that they liked ad 3 things they saw that they would question or have suggestions on how to improve.  Our host Advanced Machining got some great outside feedback, it was very easy to identify the things they liked! But true to the "Continuous Improvement" theme of the session the group identified a few areas where improvements could be implemented. These observations are very powerful….they provided the host with some direction on the continuous improvement path, which never ends. Every facility has areas they can improve.

Our next Windsor Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium SIG Event is…….

Details;

Date: June 15 from 8:00 AM till 10:30 AM

Location: Anchor Lamina, 2590 Ouellette Ave, Windsor.

Please join the fellow EMC Windsor Member companies for a best practice sharing, continuous improvement session on Claims Management. I am very please to welcome Lisa Granger from Mahle Filter Systems in Tilbury Ontario at this session. Lisa has developed one of the most impressive claims management programs around.....Lisa and Mahle Filter are recent recipients of an EMC Award of Excellence in Health and Safety. Lisa will be sharing her best practices on Claims Management with the group.

Plant tour and group continuous improvement exercise planned.

If you are interested in this event please contact;

Jason Bates

EMC Windsor

jbates@emccanada.org

519-281-1176