PEMCO hosts Lean Summit for aerospace

The Summit was created for companies from various sectors to share their Lean journey, including experiences, triumphs, and failures.

Ben Macre, PEMCO director of continuous improvement, said: “We believe there is value in collaborating with different companies. Every organisation has something to share in their quest to operational excellence.”

Lean, a term introduced by Toyota in the late 1980s, is a systematic method for the elimination of waste within a manufacturing system. Though originally applied to manufacturing concepts, “Lean applies in every business and every process. It is not a tactic or a cost reduction program, but a way of thinking and acting for an entire organisation,” according to the Lean Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit education, publishing, research, and conference organisation.

The PEMCO Lean Summit is not a seminar, or training session, but the beginning of an ongoing opportunity to learn and improve together. The three-day program consisted of presentations, discussions and team building lead by attendees, with the goal of creating new ideas to apply towards their own Lean programs.

“I thought it was the perfect blend of learning, networking and seeing Lean practices up close,” said a program manager from a US-based LCC. “It was very evident from the presentations and interactions I had with others at the Summit that these concepts, when applied correctly, have amazing transformational results within companies across all industries.”

The Summit included almost 30 Lean coordinators, and implementers from companies in various stages of their Lean journey, many of which travelled across the US to Tampa, Fla. to attend. Attendees included representatives of several US-based airlines, Broward College, Infospectrum, Launch Avionics, The Mosaic Company, PSCU, Regent Aerospace, Stellar Industrial Supply, and University of South Florida professors and students.

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