Future Efficiencies via Advanced Automation
What if plant operations utilized automation to its maximum potential? Designing tomorrow’s ready mix plants to be completely automated goes far beyond the basic concept of remote batching. Find out how other industries have applied automation principles, saved money and overcome the objections that have kept ready mix producers from achieving similar results.

 

Lean Management for Ready Mix Operations
Toyota can build innovative cars much more efficiently than its competitors. Its major advantage is a management system that seems quite foreign to North American companies – yet was invented here in the U.S. – and is rapidly being adopted globally. Leading Lean management consultants will share real-life success stories that are directly relevant to ready mix plant operations, providing you with a refreshing new approach to drive profits throughout your organization.

 

Data Mining – Finding Wealth in the Information You Already Own
As automated systems at plants and in trucks proliferate, databases are expanding exponentially – creating an untapped wealth of meaningful information. Discover how to mine that wealth to make your operation more productive, more competitive and more profitable.

 

How Rising Fuel Prices will Drive Innovation

The price of fuel affects nearly every aspect of our businesses.   And the way we operate will rapidly change as the price of fuel continues to rise.

Discover how our lives will morph as fuel goes from cheap commodity to precious liquid.  Innovation will be paramount and it will come.  The future will be different, but not bleak.  It will be, in fact, ripe with opportunity.

 

 

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Future Efficiencies via Advanced Automation

 

Steve Grundy joined Rockwell Automation in 2000 as part of a strategic acquisition to strengthen the companies' asset management capabilities. Steve's 15-year career has spanned duty in field service, reliability engineering, strategic relationship management, and commercial marketing. Steve has helped hundreds of manufacturers across multiple industries solve manufacturing problems and develop credible roadmaps towards operational excellence. Steve currently serves as a business development manager within the Architecture and Software business, and is a member of the Rockwell Automation Global Mining, Minerals, and Cement marketing team.

 

 

Lean Management for Ready Mix Operations

 

Dave Hall has over 21 years of Operational experience with a number of Fortune 100 companies within multiple industries and spanning several continents.  Positions held include: Corporate Director of Lean Manufacturing, Corporate Director of Process Improvement, Plant Manager, Strategic Purchasing Manager, and Production Control Manager.  Dave has led numerous Lean Transformations and improvement initiatives in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and abroad.  Dave is currently a Business Performance Consultant for the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s Business Excellence Consortium.

 

 

Dick Ryan is leading expert in the field of Lean Management strategies.  Formerly the president of Lean Advantage, Inc. (a consulting firm specializing in Lean management techniques and strategies), Dick currently serves as the Lean Journey Leader for Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc., and their thirty global facilities that provide capital equipment and services to the packaging industry.  Dick’s Lean Management journey includes serving as president for two divisions of Wiremold, Inc. where he directed significant gains in productivity and efficiency by implementing Lean principals.  The process of converting Wiremold to an organization based on Lean is chronicled in the book “Better Thinking, Better Results” by Bob Emiliani.

 

 

How Rising Gas Prices will Drive Innovation

 

Christopher Steiner is a staff reporter for Forbes magazine by day, but you may also recognize him from his continuous series of interviews on CNN, the Today show and a host of other media channels and events.

Christopher is the author of the book "$20 per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better."  "In recent years," Mr. Steiner says, "we have seen the impact of $4.00/gallon gasoline on industries such as airlines and automobiles.  As the price moves to $6.00, then $8.00, then $10.00, and higher there will be significant changes in almost every industry." 

Christopher's book identifies the potential impact of oil price escalation and offers valuable insight to those willing to embrace these changes as opportunities for a positive impact on our businesses and lives.