At the 8th Lean Six Sigma for Pharma, we will bring you real-world case studies that tackle the problems you are encountering, provide you with real-world solutions, and introduce you to industry peers who have been able to overcome many of the challenges Lean Six Sigma presents.
Walk away with tools for practical applications of Lean Six Sigma in R&D, transactional, business and training processes as well as along the supply chain.
8th Lean Six Sigma for Pharmaceutical, Biotech & Medical Device Excellence
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Biotech, and Medical case studies
and best
practices from
Device Excellence these leading
TM
companies:
Pfizer
Advanced Lean Six Sigma Techniques for
Wyeth
Optimizing Productivity, Profitability and
Cardinal Health
Reducing Costs
Genentech
July 27-29, 2009 Los Angeles, California Genzyme
Abbott
Baxter BioScience
Valeant Pharmaceuticals
Attend this event and return to work
with ready-to-use strategies on how to: Medtronic
Uncover best practices for successfully designing and implementing a Invitrogen
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lean standard process for new product introductions
Amylin Pharmaceuticals
Gain valuable tools for initiating top-line approaches and senior
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Johnson & Johnson
management buy-ins, while advancing sponsorship and leadership of
Lean implementation
Merck
Adopt new innovative approaches to furthering operational excellence
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And many
capabilities such as business process Kaizen, integrating and aligning a
more….
culture through different sites and business units
Formulate and develop unique ways of applying and improving Lean Six Sigma
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implementation within R&D and aligning your supply chain with your R&D customers
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Expand your Operational Excellence capabilities and understand successful
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collaborations between device manufacturer and client hospitals
Establish effective Lean Kaizen implementation as well as exceeding customers internal
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needs, and effectively deploying Lean Six Sigma within your sales and marketing divisions
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2. Lean Six Sigma Who Will Attend?
8th Champions, Master Black Belts, Black,
Green, Yellow, & Red Belts, Executive /
for Pharmaceutical, Biotech, and Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents,
Directors, Managers, and leaders of:
Medical Device Excellence July 27-29, 2009 • Process Excellence
TM
Los Angeles, California • Operational Excellence
Dear Colleagues, • Business Excellence
• Continuous Improvement
• QA/QC
IQPC’s 8th Lean Six Sigma for Phar
maceutical, Biotech and Medical • Development
Device Excellence is back
by popular demand.
• Manufacturing
• Engineering
At this event, we will bring you real- • Innovation
world case studies that tackle the
problems you are
encountering, provide you with real- • Validation
world solutions, and introduce you
to industry peers who have
been able to overcome many of the • Research & Development
challenges Lean Six Sigma presents.
Walk away with tools for
practical applications of Lean Six Sigm • Supply Chain
a in R&D, transactional, business and
training processes as well
as along the supply chain. • Logistics
• Maintenance
• Accounting
You will hear over 18+ in-depth
case studies and interactive sess • Packaging
ions including:
Implementing design for Six Sigm
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a in medical and pharmaceutical prod • Information Technology
ucts
Initiating top-down approaches and
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senior management buy-ins • Sales and Marketing
Driving operational excellence from
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strategic planning to performance
measurement
Business process Kaizen implementati
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on
Our Advisory Board
Implementing a Lean Six Sigma cultu
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re into a new organization – and
ensuring sustainability
Bridging the gap and aligning your
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Special thanks to the dedicated team of
supply chain with your R&D custo
mers advisors whose input provided continuous
improvement to the program!
Additionally, you will have the oppo
rtunity to attend a series of conferen • John Greer, Director of Continuous
ce workshops addressing
key issues such as implementing Lean
Six Sigma within sales and marketing Improvement, Bristol-Myers Squibb
divisions of your
organization, exceeding internal custo
mer needs, Lean Kaizen: A simplified • Kamal Nainani, Associate Director, Lean
approach to process
improvements and more.
Enterprise, Shire Pharmaceuticals
• Charles Aubrey, Vice President, Anderson
Engage in dynamic conversation with Pharmaceutical Packaging
your industry peers at our multiple
networking sessions, and
work closely with many LSS industry • Elizabeth Dare, Lean Sigma Black Belt,
experts. Additionally, this conferen
ce will include 4+ hours of
scheduled networking for engaging Clinical Business Office Director,
with conference speakers and peer
s from the pharmaceutical and
biotech industry. Be sure to regis AstraZeneca
ter yourself and a team of key peop
le for this important event today. • Mario Roman, Operational Excellence
Principal, Genentech
We look forward to seeing you in
Los Angeles in July! • Mark Hembarsky, Vice President, Technical
Services, Valeant Pharmaceuticals
Best Regards, • Georgette Belair, Vice President, Cross-
P.S. Enrich your experience Business Programs, Cardinal Health
• Alex Hsieh, ASQ-CSSBB, CQE, Principal
by attending our highly Scientist, Pfizer, Inc.
interactive and informative • Chad Moussa, Associate Director
Simon Curtis Strategy Excellence, Wyeth
pre-conference workshops! • Bruce Smith, Six Sigma Champion -
Conference Director
Manufacturing Central Groups, Eli Lilly
Six Sigma & Quality IQ, a divis
ion of IQPC
See page 5 for details • Ross Randolph, Master Black Belt,
Simon.curtis@iqpc.com
Program Manager for Business
Excellence, Abbott Vascular
• Ruben Ortiz, Senior Product Operational
Manager, Schering-Plough
Comments from IQPC’s past Lean Six Sigma for
Sponsorship & Exhibition
Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical Device Excellence Conferences:
Opportunities
“I thought this conference was very informative. I would recommend to others”
Sponsorships and exhibits are excellent
- Principal Business Consultant, AstraZeneca opportunities for your company to
showcase its products and services to high-
“Fantastic material and delivery!” - Project Manager, Baxter Healthcare
level, targeted decision-makers attending
“Very good insights into how to apply lean and Six Sigma to your organization.” the 8th Lean Six Sigma for
Pharmaceutical, Biotech & Medical
- Manager, Merck & Co., Inc.
Device Excellence. IQPC and Six Sigma &
quot;The atmosphere of true conference was extremely open and active - truthful discussions Quality IQ help companies like yours achieve
contributed to a deep (dive) into the critical success factors of Lean Six Sigma” important sales, marketing and branding
objectives by setting aside a limited number
- Business Intelligence Analyst, Eli Lilly & Co.
of event sponsorships and exhibit spaces –
“Very good conference: I really appreciate all of the help!” all of which are tailored to assist your
- Business Intelligence & Analytics Lead, Pfizer organization in creating a platform to
maximize its exposure at the event.
“This was my first IQPC Conference as I am new to Lean Six Sigma. This was an excellent
avenue for sharing information & best practices.” - Manager, GlaxoSmithKline For more information on sponsoring or
exhibiting at the 8th Lean Six Sigma for
“Incredible, receptive staff! Central location, very easily accessible” Pharmaceutical, Biotech & Medical Device
- Senior QA Auditor, Shire Pharmaceuticals Excellence, please contact Mario
Matulich at (212) 885-2719 or
sponsorship@iqpc.com.
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3. Conference Day One:Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Registration and Coffee Achieving Operational Excellence through
8:00
Methodology
Welcome Address and Chairman’s Opening
8:50
Remarks CASE STUDY: Operational Excellence: A
1:30
Collaboration Between Device Manufacturer and
William Botha, Director, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing & QLP,
Client Hospitals
Baxter BioScience
Becoming a “unique player” in the operational excellence arena
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Initiating Top-Down Approaches Identifying a mutual interest and opportunity to initiate
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and Senior Management Buy-Ins collaboration within the area of Operational Excellence
Discussing customer collaboration to increase efficiency and
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PANEL DISCUSSION: Gaining Top-Down
9:00 reduce the operational costs
Executive Support for the Program Understanding how operational excellent tools are provided and
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Driving the power of Lean Six Sigma from the executive level as delivered for customer satisfaction
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a catalyst for change Steve Ebbing, Director of Operational Excellence, Cardinal
Discovering the major success drivers of successful Lean Six Health
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Sigma deployment
CASE STUDY: Driving Operational Excellence
Understanding how management engagement and support 2:15
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from Strategic Planning to Performance
connect with each of these drivers
Measurement
Determining how to best engage and leverage your executive
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team to foster organizational alignment Building the right organization for accelerated change
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Moderator: Mark Hembarsky, Vice President, Technical Services, How to develop and drive key metrics
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals Assessing continual process improvement
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Panelist: Mario Roman, Operational Excellence Principal, Deploying a culture of continuous improvement and a strategy
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Genentech for change through a foundational strategic planning process,
the tools of Lean Six Sigma, DFSS, PAT, PMM and a
Sponsorship and Leadership of Lean
9:45 comprehensive assessment process
Implementation Internally William Botha, Director, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing & QLP,
Achieving senior management buy-in for LSS Baxter BioScience
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Gaining middle (line support/manager) management
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Afternoon Networking Break
engagement 3:00
Build grass roots support: Utilize Kaizens to engage the
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Value Stream Mapping to Extract Value from ERP
workforce and build acceptance with middle management 3:30
Systems
Getting functions outside supply chain to buy-in to Lean, and
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pull our expertise in to their world Looking at opportunities within the product value stream
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Formulating an appropriate leadership plan post buy-in Taking into consideration the question “what value does the
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Bill Stinchcomb, Associate Director, QA Process Improvement, customer seek?”
GPRD, Abbott Enabling suitable methods to map out the supply chain and
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supporting activities necessary to move each product from
Morning Networking Break
10:30 design to production to delivery
Benefit from value stream mapping by finding ways to eliminate
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Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) waste and unnecessary steps from the supply chain to
production
CASE STUDY: Implementing Design for Six Sigma
11:00 Displaying the successful measurement and analysis of Kaizen
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in Medical and Pharmaceutical Products Event deployment planning and impacts
Leveraging synergy between DFSS and Quality by Design in a Marc Cromer, Six Sigma Black Belt, Senior Manager Global Quality
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FDA regulated environment Validation, Invitrogen
Creating pull from development teams, scientists and engineers
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CASE STUDY: Business Process Kaizen
Generating pull from senior executives and leadership 4:15
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Implementation
Discussing medical instrumentation
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Uncovering pharmaceutics Quality by Design Overview of Kaizen tools
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Georgette Belair, Vice President, Cross-Business Programs, Selecting transactional processes
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Cardinal Health Discussing risk from a compliance regulatory/FDA perspective
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Identifying project risk at the Kaizen level
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Networking Lunch
11:45 Building grass roots support: Utilize kaizens to engage the
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workforce and build acceptance with middle management
CASE STUDY: PAT Deployment Strategy Over an
12:30 Renee Cvekus, Regulatory/Quality Systems - Process Improvement,
Existing Foundation of Lean Six Sigma Medtronic CardioVascular
Demonstrating how Baxter’s PAT vision ties into the existing
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Chairman’s Closing Remarks and End of Day One
Operational Excellence strategy 5:00
Developing adequate operating mechanisms, deployment
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structure, and standard tools and templates to drive progress
and harmonization
Defining the metrics and measuring the progress
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Serj Vartanian, Global Quality Systems Manager, MBB, BioScience,
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
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4. Conference Day Two:Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Registration and Coffee Lean Six Sigma Implementation within R&D
8:00
Welcome Address and Chairman’s Opening Applying and Improving Lean Six Sigma
8:50 1:30
Remarks Implementation Within R&D
Determining how risk management and Lean Six Sigma can
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Mastering Lean Six Sigma and Process Excellence to work simultaneously and streamline R&D processes
Maximize Organizational Goals Unearthing efficient strategies for measuring sustainable
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operational improvements for your organization
OPENING KEYNOTE: Implementing a Lean Six
9:00 Identifying waste elimination strategies within your R&D
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Sigma Culture into a New Organization – and processes – Displaying case study examples
Ensuring Sustainability Discovering the most effective value stream strategies and
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Aligning your LSS program with the company business strategy projects to choose
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Implementing a LSS culture with an aligned approach globally Valuing efficiency and effectiveness in R&D
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Preparing and executing a culture shift – key aspects to consider David Rodin, Director, Operational Excellence, Merck & Co., Inc.
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Driving awareness and understanding across multi-disciplinary
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Bridging the Gap and Aligning Your Supply
divisions 2:15
Chain with Your R&D Customers
Using training and learning to build capability
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Ensuring sustainability of results Determining how risk management and Lean Six Sigma can
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Wendy A. Kouba, Vice President, Operations Management, work simultaneously and streamline R&D processes
Operational Excellence, Wyeth Understanding the need to align supply chain and production
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processes with our R&D customer needs
Morning Networking Break
9:45 Unearthing approaches for measuring sustainable operational
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improvements for your organization
CASE STUDY: Lean Transformation and the Next
10:30 Working backwards from the customer requirements to deploy a
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Steps process capable of routinely meeting them
Building a management framework to support the multi year Converting from a make-to-stock commercial model to a make-
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lean journey to-order custom job shop
Aligning and focusing the organization using Strategy Robert Bottome, Director, Operational Excellence, South San
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Deployment Francisco Production, Genentech
Lean Maturity Assessment and selection process
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Afternoon Networking Break
Driving execution discipline with MDI and RALFI 3:00
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Displaying successful lean transformation examples within
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CASE STUDY: Applying Lean Six Sigma (LSS)
Genzyme 3:30
Tools to Increase Clinical Manufacturing Capacity
Frank Sivo, Director, Global Lean Transformation, Genzyme
Using a systems perspective to proactively identify initiatives that
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Delivering and Sustaining Lean on the Shopfloor
11:00 enable R&D strategic objectives
Uncovering three elements of Wyeth’s transformation – Technical application of LSS tools to reduce product changeover
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Operating system, management infrastructure and mindsets & cycle times for the clinical manufacture of monoclonal
behaviors antibodies
Delivering transformational change Employing risk assessment to challenge internal specifications
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Generating rapid results while using GEMBA to build your and testing requirements
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team's capabilities and sustain improvements Derek Greene, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Research and
Sustaining continuous improvement – Focusing on management Development, Pfizer
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infrastructure
Analyzing Lean Applications in a Manufacturing
Senan Griffin, European Operational Excellence Manager, Wyeth 4:15
Environment
Networking Lunch
11:45 Integrating the lean and agile manufacturing paradigms in the
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total supply chain
Ensuring Company Wide Commitment to Process
12:30 Analyzing key factors including just-in-time (JIT), total quality
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Improvement management (TQM), total preventive maintenance (TPM), and
Effectively training and motivating large numbers of people human resource management (HRM).
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Understanding the principles of continuous improvement Understanding their effects on operational excellence
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Going beyond buy-in from your operational directors to taking Understanding a DMAIC Kaizen deployed for the shop floor
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responsibility for quality and efficiency within their working Discussing a DMAIC approach to Class A
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practices and departments Bruce Sawyer, Vice President, Global Business Excellence, GPSG,
Moving Lean Six Sigma from a departmental consulting position Johnson & Johnson
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to the way the entire company carries out its day job
End of Conference & Chairman’s Closing remarks
Creating the balance between centralized Lean Six Sigma teams 5:00
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and Lean Six Sigma project leaders based in the business
Alan Bradshaw, Director, Operational Excellence, Amylin
Pharmaceuticals
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Advanced Lean Six Sigma Techniques for Pharmaceuticals
Optimizing Productivity, Profitability and “Please continue these! Very
Reducing Costs useful in these hard economic
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