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Achieving Real Value from Practical Applications of Business Process Improvement (BPI)
The Mining Engineering Program of the Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University is pleased to host its third annual meeting of the Industry Summit on Mining Performance, also called Business Process Improvement or BPI, and is proud to have the Department of Mining and Geological Engineering at The University of Arizona and The Colorado School of Mines as our academic co-sponsors.
MAY 10 AND 11, 2007
WESTWARD LOOK RESORT
TUCSON, ARIZONA
This BPI conference will be a gathering place to discuss performance improvement issues, opportunities, and challenges, and will include presentations from industry leaders in key mining sectors-coal, metals, and nonmetallic minerals-as well as from customers, suppliers, and others with a keen interest in mining industry performance.
Keynote speakers:
The Summit on Mining Performance is pleased to announce:
Paul J. Dowd, Vice President, Australia and New Zealand Operations (retired) for Newmont Mining Corporation, as the opening keynote speaker for the third summit. For more than forty years, Dowd served the mining industry in executive positions for mining companies in the metals and precious-metals sectors. Dowd was responsible for advancing Business Process Improvement (BPI) in mining for the largest gold miner in the world. His leadership improved the application and results of BPI by incorporating specific productivity, cost, cultural, and safety-based elements into the BPI tool set. Please join Dowd and the other BPI mining professionals from around the world as we meet on May 10 and 11, 2007, in Tucson, to improve the safe, profitable, and environmentally sound extraction of minerals.
Tony Eltringham, Vice President, Operating Excellence, BHP Billiton Base Metals, will be our second keynote speaker. Eltringham has more than thirty-eight years of experience in the mining industry, starting with copper smelting in Zambia, that has broadened to cover most minerals in his company, BHP Billiton in the Americas, Australia and Africa. He has handled operations, managed research and development, commissioned new projects, and worked with troubled operations. His current work is in operations analysis, troubleshooting, and improvement as well as leading a Six Sigma redeployment and promoting new styles of thinking for young people entering the company. Why don't "best practices" travel better across the silos in industries or companies? What has happened to the concept of Knowledge Management of the '90s? How can we improve the thinking processes among our technologists and accelerate effective knowledge transfer in the next ten years with the emphasis being on effective? His lecture will address these questions.
Preconference workshops and field trips are being planned for Wednesday, May 9, 2007:
Field Trips:
Phelps Dodge Sierrita Open-Pit Copper Mine (considered the safest of its kind globally).
Caterpillar Demonstration Facility. Caterpillar, the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, is also a leader in Six Sigma and sustainability. We will watch their heavy machinery in action and have the chance to get up close and personal with the equipment and operators.
Workshops:
Becoming the BPI company coordinator will be presented by Thomas Pyzdek, Founder and President of Pyzdek Consulting, Inc.
As Business Process Improvement coordinator you need to integrate all of your organization's BPI initiatives with the organization's strategy and planning processes. You need a way to identify and prioritize high-impact Six Sigma and Lean projects that support your leadership's strategy deployment process. This workshop presents a revolutionary new approach to BPI that rigorously links strategy to action and systematically drives towards the organization's vision. This will be a fun, hands-on workshop where you will play the role of BPI coordinator for a hypothetical organization and will develop strategies and link them to BPI projects and plans. Topics covered in the workshop include:
1. Integrating BPI into the organization
2. How to obtain the voice of the customer, shareholder, and employee
3. How to operationalize strategies via Balanced Scorecards
4. How to create a top-level dashboard from the Balanced Scorecard
5. How to use Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to link operational plans to strategies
6. How to use QFD identify projects with high strategic impact
7. How to map processes to create strategic line of sight with Six Sigma projects
Thomas Pyzdek's career in business process improvement spans thirty-eight years. He is a leading quality and Six Sigma authority and the author of more than fifty copyrighted works including The Six Sigma Handbook, The Handbook for Quality Management Handbook, and The Quality Engineering Handbook. Pyzdek has provided consulting to major clients in a broad spectrum of industries. He provides consulting guidance from the executive suite to "Belts" working in the trenches. In his public seminars and client classes he has taught Six Sigma and other business process improvement methodologies to thousands.
Applications of LEAN Concepts and Tools to Mining:
Improving Mine Performance and Predictability through Efficient and Effective Management of the Entire Activity Chain, presented by Alan Steelman, Managing Director, Mining and Metals, N.A., Proudfoot Consulting Company.
This presentation will outline and detail the three primary elements of an effective, execution level lean system: process, management operating system, and skilled and empowered supervisors and employees. It will focus on the types of waste that must be identified and eliminated: overproduction, inventory, waiting, conveyance, motion, unnecessary processing and setup, defects, people skills, and resources.
Identifying and eliminating nonvalue-adding activities throughout the entire chain of mine planning and engineering: drill and blast, load and haul, crush and convey, and process and ship. The workshop will focus on identifying value in the eyes of the customer, identifying the value stream and eliminating the waste, involvement and empowerment of employees, and the installation of a continuous improvement culture in pursuit of perfection.
Formerly, Mr. Steelman has held the positions of President, Maxager Technology, Inc.; Senior Principal, Monitor Company, Cambridge, MA; Chief Operating Officer, Alexander Proudfoot PLC.; Member, U.S. Congress from Texas 5th District (Dallas); Republican nominee for U.S. Senate; Executive Director, President's Advisory Council on Minority Business; Enterprise (Nixon Administration); Board Member, Sterling Software, Dallas.
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