72 managers and executives of Silverstone Berhad attended a one-day Factory Conference on 7 Aug 2010 at SSL Traders Hotel in Taiping. Group Director, Mr Paul Chan delivered his keynote address at the conference themed "Operational Excellence" Towards Work Simplification. Also in attendance were General Manager, Mr Mike Toh and senior management staff.
The 7 cross functional groups started their workshop on identifying various processes for simplification, after the presentation by Mr Mike Toh on the company’s direction in achieving Operational Excellence status and two other sessions on 'The Quality Advantage - An Overview' and 'Work Simplification - The Methodology and Approach' by Senior HR Manager, En Khairudin Zaman and manufactur | Manufacturing Manager, Mr Chew Kee Guan respectively.
Group 5 from Tire Room Bias Department won the first price of RM800 cash for the Best Work Simplification Project, while Group 4 from Tire Room Radial and Group 3 of Bead Room/Bias Cutter Department won 2nd and 3rd placing, receiving RM 500 and RM300 respectively. The remaining 4 groups each received consolation prizes of RM100.
Special awards of RM250 each for "out-of-the-box" projects went to Group 1 from Banbury which came up with the idea of moving out 2 bins from the auto pigment operations, and to Group 3 for proposing the spiral overlay to be run for 225mm from the current 150mm. Syabas to all! |