24/7 Strategies Group - Conversion Seminar

Conversion Seminar Additional Information

The Conversion Seminar has been the definitive seminar offered in the United States for well over a decade. This seminar and/or consulting from 24/7 Strategies Group has helped companies such as those listed below convert their operations to 24/7 or other alternative work schedule, and manage the change and the results of the change in a positive way that eliminates common problems associated with conversion and alternative shift schedules.

Alpha Industries	Keebler Co.
Avery Dennison Corp.	Kraft Foods
Baker Hughes Inc.	Malden Mills Industries
BASF Corp.	Miller Brewing Co.
Bausch & Lomb	Motorola
Biogen, Inc.	Nabisco
Caterpillar, Inc.	Perrigo Company
Colgate-Palmolive Co.	Quaker Oats Co.
Domino Sugar	Ripon Foods, Inc.
Eaton Corp.	Sony Corp.
Frigidaire Co.	The Scotts Co.
General Electric Co.	Thomas J. Lipton Co.
General Mills	Visteon Co.
The Gillette Co.	Warner-Lambert Co.
Guardian Industries	Westvaco
Hexcel Corp	Weyerhaeuser Co.
Hunt-Wesson, Inc.	W.H. Brady
James River Corp.	Xerox

Who Should Attend

The Conversion Seminar is perhaps the single most valuable tool firms can use both prior to maiing a decision about conversion and after the decision has been made. The Seminar Leader will help you analyze if in fact 24/7 or other alternative work schedule makes sense for your firm given the factors that are unique to your operation, the makeup of your assets and considerations about the type of work force makeup that you employ.

This information is valuable to anyone who is a company president or CEO, vice president, corporate manufacturing or human resources director or manager, plant manager, production superintendent, maintenance director, staff member, department manager, supervisor, union leader, or hourly employee in a business that is considering or in the middle of the transition to an alternative work schedule. If you are looking for better ways to utilize your company's assets -- plant, equipment or people -- or if you are starting to think about 24/7 manufacturing, are in the middle of a transition or are about to make the change, our seminar will provide you with answers to your questions and guidance on how to move ahead successfully.

The Benefits You Can Expect:

Is your business facing any of these operating challenges?

Utilizing capital assets and human resources effectively
Controlling costs
Increasing production and/or capacity
Satisfying more stringent customer demands
Reducing cycle times

Most likely, the existing plant and equipment run Monday through Friday, with varying amounts of overtime on weekends. Mondays are startup days -- the plant runs poorly -- and the same on Friday, when you shut down. Overall, assets remain under-utilized, as your most productive equipment may be idle 40% of the time or more. One way to effectively employ your capital assets is to run continuously, 24/7. But making this change is complex, affecting almost every part of the operation, with a number of hidden traps.

In this seminar we will show you how to evaluate the benefits and paybacks of 24/7 for your business, how to avoid the all-too-common errors made in implementing 24/7, and how to get the most out of it after startup. Our seminar leader will share the experience of working with hundreds of facilities over the past 12 years. Attendees have reported that this is the first seminar that taught them what they really needed to know about the complex issues of 24/7 operations, and many say that it is the best seminar they have ever attended. Attend the pre-seminar evaluation on Monday afternoon to receive ideas and solutions to your specific questions about potential gains from, and obstacles to, 24/7 in your operation.

You Will Learn:

How to evaluate the potential benefits, paybacks and difficulties in converting to 24/7 or another alternative in your situation, and how to determine which parts of your plant to run 24/7 so that you best utilize your assets
What 24/7 work schedules are most popular with companies and employees, plus the pros and cons of each
How to plan for and manage the change, actively involving hourly employees/associates, supervisors, line managers and support functions to guarantee success
Common errors made during this transition and how to avoid them
How to communicate effectively, perform maintenance, and achieve your financial and operational goals in a 24/7 operation
The legal, financial, productivity, safety and ergonomic issues of 24/7 operations and extended work days, looking specifically at the questions of alertness, performance and human error
What more than a hundred plants have done successfully, and also what has not worked
How to address your union's reasons for resistance and establish the framework for the company and union to work together on this change

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