Overview

Continuous Improvement (CI) is a vast subject with its origins within the automotive industries. Almost all of the information available to a potential practitioner is based on examples from those industries. However, the tools and techniques are equally effective within the process industries when applied appropriately. Our talk will give you an insight into how you can implement sustainable improvements in areas including:

• health and safety performance
• process efficiency
• delivery performance
• complaint reduction
• cost optimisation.

Free parking is available at the venue, which is a short walk from either Dinas Powys or Eastbrook railway stations.

Refreshments will be available.

Speaker

Ian Madden, Torrs Consulting

Ian Madden has a passion for all things to do with continuous improvement driven by the significant benefits it can bring to people and the organisations they work for. His interest is in helping teams achieve sustainable behavioural changes to improve operational effectiveness.

Graduating in 1985 with a degree in Chemical Engineering, he has spent over 35 years in process engineering, project engineering, operations management up to Operations Director level. The last 20 years have been spent as a Continuous Improvement Practitioner both as a consultant and in-house Continuous Improvement Manager. In 2015, Ian set up Torrs Consulting Ltd (www.torrsconsulting.com), a Continuous Improvement consulting company providing services to industrial and service organisations.

During his career, he has worked for or provided services to over 130 organisations in both the UK and overseas in FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, Automotive, Health Care, Farming, Retail and General Manufacturing including Mondelez (Cadbury), Nestlé, Akzo Nobel, Hain Daniels, Greene King, Rolls Royce, Produce World, New Covent Garden Soup Company, NHS, Riverford Organic Farmers, Greencore, and Irish Distillers.

Ian has a deep knowledge of Continuous Improvement tools and techniques developed from achieving Master Black Belt level and his extensive experience. His projects have covered many functional areas including manufacturing, maintenance, project engineering, warehousing and distribution, planning, procurement, new product introduction, laboratory processes, farming, health and safety, and hospital and GP operations.

Ian will introduce his recently published book "Always Making Progress: The Fundamentals of Continuous Improvement for the Process Industry" which provides additional support to the CI practitioner.