A Global Lean Conference in Shanghai (October 23-24, 2007)

The 2nd “Global Lean Summit” organized by Lean Enterprise China (LEC) will be held at Shagnhai Fudan Crown Plaza Hotel. Many world Lean gurus will address the audience with recent development in lean applications and its trend in the advanced countries. The other business leaders will share their personal experience in lean implementation in China.

The objective is to provide a forum for business leaders and lean practitioners in China to share information of what is new in the lean world as well as the challenges of lean implementation in China. In view of the increasing significant roles played by Chinese manufacturers in the global manufacturing world and the indispensable relationship between manufacturing and purchasing, therefore we selected the theme of this year’s conference: “Lean Supply Chain.” 

The key note speakers will include Dr. James Womack, the Founder and President of Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI); Mr. David Nelson,, the former Executive Vice President Supply Management at Honda of America, John Deere Co, and Delphi;, Mr. Jason Luo, CEO & President of KEY Safety Systems; and two renowned authors, Mr. David Meier, co-author of “Toyota Way Field Book” and “Toyota Talent”; and Mr. Robert Martichenko, co-author of “Lean Supply Chain”

Senior executives from FLEXTRONICS, DuPont, Bosch, Delphi, Caterpiller, Emerson, Alston, Fischer Plastic and HighPower Battery etc, will make presentations at the Summit to share their lean experience in China. For registration, please visit the website www.leanchina.org or contact LEC Shanghai office at 021-6597-9076

    “Lean practices are best demonstrated by Toyota Motor Co. based on the improvement from traditional manufacturing systems. Its processes and concept were developed by Dr. James Womack and his MIT team when they studied Toyota for the book of The Machine That Changed The World.” said Dr. Chao, President of LEC. “Lean Thinking has been widely accepted as the best management system by many manufacturing and service industries We hope the forum will provide Chinese business leaders and lean practitioners some new ideas and solutions for successful operations in China.”

About Lean Enterprise China (LEC)

Lean Enterprise China (LEC) is a non-profit organization aimed at promoting and educating Lean Thinking in China. We provide lean tools books in Chinese, training & workshops as well as on-site consulting to help Chinese operations to achieve lean transformation.

The group is led by Dr. Marcus Chao and Mr. Hong Li . They two combined have 50 years working experience in Fortune 50 companies and have many years of working experience in China. Dr. Chao was the president of Delphi China during 1995-2001 and Mr. Li worked 8 years at Toyota in USA , 4 years at Ford in Michigan and 3 years with Shanghai McKinsey Consulting Co..

LEC is affiliated with Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) as the sole authorized entity in China. LEI was found by Dr. James Womack, the co-author of "The Machine That Changed The World", "Lean Thinking", and "Lean Solution."

For more information, please visit www.leanchina.org.