Manufacturing Excellence Roundtable QUEENSLAND


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The MERT in Queensland provides members with the opportunity to compare Best Practice in the delivery of safe, high qulaity, high speed, low cost production.

Members focus on issues encompassed by the following topics;

  • Benchmarking
  • Productivity improvement including Lean Manufacturing
  • Operations reliability
  • Supply chain development
  • Logistics, capacity utilisation, inventory reduction
  • Quality improvement
  • Organisational effectiveness including leadership
  • Occupational health, safety and environement
  • Training, industrial relations and enterprise bargaining

Bill Sugden

Facilitator

T: 07 3261 9110 M: 0411 132 676

Bill is a mechanical engineer with 25 years of industrial experience across aluminium, coal, petrochemical and manufacturing industry segments.

Bill has worked in various technical and management roles in production, maintenance and engineering.

During 1990 Bill participated in a two week long study tour of Japanese industry to learn about TQM, Kaizen and TPM.

Bill is passionate about sharing knowledge and experience and participated as a member of IMRt for 5 years before joining SIRF Rt as a facilitator in 2002.

Bill is married with two duaghter's in their late teens and recently 'spent' half a million frequent flyer points on them - you'll have to ask him about details.