Workshops & Learning

• What changes are necessary to integrate additive manufacturing into production workflows? 

• Design processes and factory interfaces 

• Where can small batch ordering reduce inventory levels and create efficiencies 

• Contract manufacturing v in-house capability 

The Challenger 3 team at Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) is delivering the most advanced battle tank in NATO within budget and on schedule. DE&S and the British Army announced that they have approved the Critical Design Review ahead of schedule, marking a great success! Given current threats, the Army needs tanks on, or preferably ahead of, schedule.

With support from the BAE Systems Corporate PM Function, RBSL has adopted Critical Chain Project Management, supported by Goldratt UK, to ensure adherence to the schedule.

• Encouraging younger professionals into the steel industry

• Bringing together start-ups with larger companies 

• Accessing top quality talent   

• Apprenticeships and community connections to inspire young engineers 

• Encouraging skills development in older workers 

• Exploring diverse sources for finding new employees

How to create a structured framework between daily management, breakthrough changes and strategy deployment involving the people and developing their culture and capabilities. 

• Hoshin planning and review to get management direction and commitment: How will we manage the business to achieve breakthrough results?
• Value stream analysis to attain breakthrough results: How will we design and implement breakthrough improvement initiatives?
• Daily management to change behaviours and company culture: How will we develop improvement behaviours and sustain improvements?

Supply chains are constantly at risk, and problems can cause serious harm to exporters. You need to know the risks you can predict, those you can't, and how to secure against all of them. 

Engaging with attendees, the discussion will cover: 

• Black Swan events: how to ensure unforeseen events don’t disrupt your supply chain. 

• Past is prologue: old solutions to modern problems. 

• The limits (and utilities) of supply chain risk management tools. 

• Why taking smaller risks to protect against greater ones is vital knowledge that's too rare to ignore. 

• Protection against bad debt: assessing international credit risks while forging supply chain safeguards. 

• Simplification: saving time and money. Complexity is not always beneficial. 

As an attendee, whether you're already exporting or considering it, you'll emerge from this session with essential, often overlooked methods that will sustain and grow your supply chain, and boost your firm's productivity. 

• A practical and dynamic workshop designed to explore how you can embed sustainable business practices within your value chains, from sourcing raw materials to product end-of-life cycles, in sectors like aerospace, automotive, rail, and medical.

• Generate innovative ideas for new product design and how sourcing alternative raw materials can reduce environmental and social impacts.

• Gain insights into the environmental and social impacts of products across every part of a manufacturing value chain.
• Understand the importance of mapping your value chain to achieve business success.
• Understand how using strategic business tools like value chain mapping play an important role in embedding sustainable business practices in your operations.