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Sixth European Six Sigma Conference: Date: October 13th, 14th & 15th 2004. Location: Lisbon. Program Third Spain Conference: Date & location: May 19th & 20th 2005, (Barcelona).

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Fifth European Six Sigma Conference

An initiative of: Bombardier         Ericsson Alfa Laval            Philips Atlantic Copper   Siemens Frosst Iberica      MSD

Date: October 9 & 10th, 2003. Location: Sofitel Airport, Campo de las Naciones (Madrid).  Hosted by Frosst Iberica. The Club is open to new members interested in sharing practical experiences with our Group of Experts and belonging to a company operating in Europe implementing Six Sigma initiatives.

		Thursday October 9th 09:30 Registration 10:00 Welcome from Vice President Frosst Ibérica, Jose Feliciano. 10:20 European Six Sigma Club fifth Anniversary.Overview of 5 years. 11:00 What has to be changed to be ready for Six Sigma implementation. 11:40 Coffee 12:00 How to harmonise other improvement concepts with Six Sigma. 12:40 How to improve management attention and support. 13:30 Lunch 15:30 Black Belt & Champion experience presentations in Paralel Sessions A: Black Belt Best Practice Experience B: Champion Integration Experience C: Champion Training Experience 18:00 End of day one 21:00 Dinner and amusement

		Friday October 10th 09:00 Selection criteria for Black Belt projects. 09:30 Extra Quality Cost Subject. 10:10 Variance Based Cost Control and extra Quality Cost subject. 10:50 Scientific presentation. 11:30 Coffe 11:40   Cultural aspect: When in Rome, ... do as Romans do. 12:00   Cultural aspects: How to handle the United States way of thinking and the European way of acting. 12:20   Without Tolerance Planning you will never reach Six Sigma. 13:30 Lunch 15:30 Roundtable discussion / Workshop in Parallel Sessions: A: Black Belt benchmarking network B: Champion Communication Tool C: Champion Cultural Aspects 17:00 Member´s Meeting.

		Members meeting Friday/Saturday 12 am:  Members meeting Friday/Saturday 12 am: Members meeting will be held at end of the Fifth European Six Sigma Conference. During this meeting, charter, objectives and activities of the Club will be discussed. If  your company want to be a member of the Club and you are interested in participating in the futher development of the Club, you are wellcome to this meeting.    Call for presentations: In the Parallel Sessions after lunch, Black Belts, Champions and other delegate are welcome to present improvement projects, experiences and discussion topic’s.The deadline for submitting a summary is August 29th. Please submit to: Information. The organising committee will make a selection of the presentations.    Registration:  If you work in a company implementing Six Sigma and are interested to share your experience with other companies, please let us know your Six Sigma involment and ask us for Registration Form and additional infomation. Host, Merck Sharp & Dohme: Diego Corbalán González. European Six Sigma Club: Peter Rudberg.

Keynote speakers Peter Rudberg: Conference Chairman is President of the European Six Sigma Club. General Manager at Rudberg Sistemas Empresariales SL. Before manager at ABB in Spain, implementing Six Sigma.  Jonas Williamsson: Corporate Quality Manager, Polimoon, Sweden  Leszek Biskup-Köstner: Board Member and Country President for Switzerland, Italy, Poland and UK. Master Black Belt and Six Sigma Coordinator by Bombardier Transportation. Previously Six Sigma Consultant by GE and Six Sigma Key Account Manager by Siemens  Mats Emanuelsson: Six Sigma Champion in Alfa Laval AB, Lund, Sweden.  José Miguel Pérez: Responsible for Six Sigma Deployment in Schneider Electric España S.A., previously Improvement Process Manager.  Christophe Vigne: Responsible for Lean Manufacturing in Schneider Electric España S.A. Before Industrial Project Manager.  Dag Kroslid: Senior Manager within the Advisory Business Services of Ernst & Young in Norway.  Peter Hayhanen: Is Assistant Manager Product Industrialisation in Transmission & Transport at Ericsson AB Boras, Sweden.  Mariano Prieto: Master Black Belt and Manager Continuous Improvement at ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas S.A.  José Miguel Quintana; is MBB in Atlantic Copper, responsible for Six Sigma Deployment. Previously Master Black Belt in GE Plastics. Bo Bergman: is SKF professor in TQM at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.  Valle Almazán, is TQM Manager in NH Hoteles. Previously Master Black Belt in GE Capital.  Ricart Gras, is Socio Director Kairos Management. Previously Quality and Six Sigma Leader in GE Plastics Europe and GE Power Controls.  Otto P. van Driel, is senior consultant at Philips Centre for industrial Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

		09:30 -10:00  Registration and welcome coffee 10:00 -10:05  Conference opening, Peter Rudberg President ESSC 10:05 -10:30  Welcome from Atlantic Copper. Patricio Barrios, General Manager Corporate Development. VP 10:30 -11:00  European Six Sigma Club presentation             - History and evolution             - Objectives and mission             - Activities 11:00 -14:00  (Coffee: 12:00-12:30) - Deployment and results of 6 s in participating companies in the areas of:             - Transaccional             -  Manufacturing             -  Design for Six Sigma - Following companies has confirmed their participation: Enusa, GE Plastics. Merck, TAP, Atlantic Copper, Bombardier, - Other pending for confirmation: Balay, Peguform, ……etc 14:00-16:00 Lunch 16:00-18:00 Roundtable discussion/workshop: - Benchmarking between Club Members - Black Belt success and pitfalls exchange - Training and coaching of Black Belt - Further activities 2003.

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Objectives - Quick off meeting of the European Six Sigma Club in Spain, promoting a contact network between participants. - Share European Six Sigma Club  activities with new members. - Agree further activities for the Club in Spain.

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Contact persons and location Contact persons: - At Atlantic Copper; Jose M. Quintana. - At European Six Sigma Club: Peter Rudberg. Location: - Hotel Occidental Sevilla - Av. Kansas City, s/n, (AVE Railway Station), 4100 Sevilla - Tel.: 954582000, Fax.: 954584615 Hosted by: ATLANTIC COPPER, Participant fee: 85€ - (to cover facilities, coffee, lunch and documentation costs)

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Fourth European Six Sigma Conference

		Date: October 10 & 11th, 2002. Location: Malmoe,Sweden.  This year the Club has been able to organize, once more, our Annual Conference thanks to Alfa Laval who host this meeting. The excellent program, widely discussed within the Core Team, is performed and designed thanks to the enthusiastic work of Dag Kroslid (Ernst&Young). During the days of conference, the participants have had the opportunity to shear time with the three co - authors of the book "Six Sigma - The Pragmatic Approach" (Kjell Magusson, Dag Kroslid and Bo Bergman) The Club is open to new members interested in sharing practical experiences with our Group of Experts and belonging to a company operating in Europe implementing Six Sigma initiatives.
An initiative of:
ABB       Ericsson    Alfa Laval
Philips   Siemens    Whirlpool

 

		Thursday October 10th 8:30 Registration 8:50 Chairman Peter Rudberg: Conference opening 9:00 Welcome by Ulf Granstrand Vice President Operations, Alfa Laval 9:30 6 s deployment: Siemens Power Generation approach B. Kleeman 10:15 Coffee 10:35 Six Sigma deployment cont. Six Sigma at Volvo Cars, Claes Britsman Six Sigma at ABB, Kjell Magnusson Benchmarking with other companies, chairman 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Design for Six Sigma Design for Six Sigma – Theories and practices Bo Bergman Tolerance planning at Philips, Otto P. van Driel Six Sigma in sourcing at Ericsson, Peter Häyhänen DFSS training program at Siemens, Ravindra Pandev 15:00 Coffee 15:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS – Black Belt Case Studies A: Transactional, Stein Morten Bjelland B: Manufacturing, Bernhard Kleemann C: Design, Bo Bergman D: Lean Manufacturing, Dag Kroslid 17:00 End of day one 19:00 Dinner and amusement

Friday October 11th 8:30    Excellence Models and Six Sigma, EFQM 9:00    Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma, Hugo Von Markus 9:30    Application of advanced statistical Improvement, Minitab 10:00  Coffee 10:30  Master Black Belt Training, Andrew Smith 11:00  Application of tools related to customer satisfaction, Peter Rudberg/ Anders Fundin 11:30  Six Sigma in the service industry, Stein Morten Bjelland 12:00  Lunch 13:00  Parallel sessions - Roundtable discussion/workshop          A: Black Belt certification, Rafaello Guisti          B: Six Sigma company assessment, Peter Rudberg          C: Six Sigma and cultural issues, Dag Kroslid          D: Exchange possibilities of Six Sigma esources, Bernhard Kleemann 14:30  Coffee 14:50  European deployment patterns, Ida Gremyr 15:20  Members’ Meeting, Peter Rudberg

 

Keynote speakers Peter Rudberg, Conference Chairman is President of the European Six Sigma Club. General Manager of Rudberg Sistemas Empresaliares SL. Before manager at ABB in Spain, implementing Six Sigma Bernhard Kleeman, is a Master Black Belt at Siemens Power Generation, Erlangen, Germany Claes Britsman, is Director 6- Sigma Deployment at Volvo Car Corporation, Göteborg, Sweden Bo Bergman, is SKF professor in TQM at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Otto P. van Driel, is senior consultant at Phillips Centre for Industrial Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Peter Häyhänen, is Assistant Manager Product Industrialization in Transmission & Transport at Ericsson AB, Borås, Sweden Ravindra Pandev, is a Master Black Belt at Siemens Power Generation, USA. Stein Morten Bjelland, is CEO of Acta Asset Management, Stavanger, Norway. Before that he worked with GE Capital as a business area manager Andrew Smith, is Black Belt Programme Manager Philips Lighting, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Members´ meeting - Friday 15:20 Some years into its deployment of Six Sigma, ABB sought benchmarking with other European companies and invited these to annual Six Sigma Symposiums. Companies who participated in these symposiums included Siemens, Ericsson, Philips, Whirlpool, Allied Signal, amongst others. It was from these annual meetings that the idea of creating a European Six Sigma Club was born. Members meeting will be held at end of the fourth European Six Sigma Conference. During this members meeting, charter, objectives and activities of the Club will be discussed. If your company want to be a member of the Club and you are interested in participating in the further development of the Club, you are welcome to this meeting. Please mark the registration if you like to join the members meeting! Call for presentations: In the parallel sessions on the 10 of October 15:30-17:00, Black Belts and other delegates are invited to present Six Sigma improvement projects on the following four topics: (1) Transactional, (2) Manufacturing, (3) Design and (4) Lean Manufacturing. The deadline for submitting a summary is 31 August. The organising committee will make a selection of the presentations.

Contact persons: Registration & administration: Anna Ericsson Host: Alfa Laval:                     Mats Emanuelsson European Six Sigma Club:     Peter Rudberg