Holden Elizabeth Plant Insights Tour
Last chance to see automotive excellence in action
DATE: Thursday, 8 June, 2017
TIME: 8.30am - 12.15pm
VENUE: 180 Phillip Hwy, Elizabeth South, SA 5112
FEE (includes GST): Members $25 / Non Members $75 (Includes morning tea and tour)
EVENT OVERVIEW
AME Site visits are a great opportunity to ‘learn by seeing’ and ensure you experience ‘hands on’ tools and skills to take back to your workplace. This plant tour will visit the Elizabeth GM Holden Vehicle Operations and Transition Centre.
Today Holden is one of only seven fully-integrated global General Motors operations that designs, builds & sells vehicles for Australia and the world with a world class vehicle manufacturing operations in Elizabeth, Adelaide, South Australia. Holden Vehicle Operations (HVO) produce 44 models from six vehicle body styles and two core vehicle ‘architectures’ for domestic and export customers.
Despite recent challenges, Australia’s automotive industry leads in design, engineering and manufacturing excellence, coupled with first-class R&D capabilities and a significant capacity to diversify and transfer into future industries. Unfortunately Holden will cease manufacturing operations in Adelaide in 2017. This will be your last chance to visit one of Adelaide’s exemplar automotive plants before they close their doors for good.
This Workplace Insights Tour will provide practical learning opportunities to improve business performance through facilitated Insights to the workplace of this exemplar automotive plant. The tour will broaden your thinking and build your knowledge of lean management principles. You’ll experience lean implementation and develop the understanding necessary to implement these within your organisation.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This tour would be beneficial to all levels of management and or shop floor personnel interested in manufacturing including CI professionals, Supervisors, Operational Managers and Lean Practitioners.
WHAT YOU WILL SHARE & LEARN
Participants will receive information on Lean Manufacturing, Quality and Safety principles and have the opportunity to observe the Body Shop and General Assembly Facility in action, along with a presentation on the GM Holden Transition Program.
AGENDA
8.15am Arrival, registration and official welcome
8.30am - 9.00am Lean Manufacturing Presentation
9.00am - 10.45am Plant Tour
10.45am - 11.15am Morning Tea and Networking
11.15am - 12noon Transition Presentation and Close
PRESENTER AND TOUR GUIDE
Jamie Getgood – HR Director of Manufacturing and Operations
COMPANY OVERVIEW
GM Holden has brought together the best, most competitive manufacturing practices from around the world and leveraged what it has learned to develop and deploy its GM-Global Manufacturing System or GM-GMS, a common global manufacturing system for all of its plants. The GM-GMS system incorporates principles such as: People Involvement, Standardisation, Continuous Improvement, Short Lead Time and Built In Quality.
WHAT TO WEAR
Closed toe shoes. Additional information to be supplied to confirmed attendees
OTHER REGISTRATION INFORMATION
You can become an AME member for $265 per year and obtain the discounted AME member rate for this event.
The host company reserves the right to decline attendees.
Maximum three people per company, additions will be added to a waitlist.
Cancellations can be made up to one week before the event. Substitutions may be made up to three days before the event.
This event may be cancelled by AME for any reason. AME is not responsible for incidental costs incurred by registrants.
AME may take photographs during events and may use those photographs for AME’s purposes.
CONTACT
Please direct enquiries to Siobhan Browne, Marketing and Events Manager on 1300 263 287 or events@ame.org.au.
