Lean Transformation Summit to focus on “Calibrating Mind to See Waste”

International Lean Transformation Summit, which will be inaugurated on 22 May at 

 The Grand Ballroom, Galadari Hotel, Colombo, has lined up the 16 best local and international lean minds to share insights and experience. The proper Summit will be held on 23 May. 

The Summit, under the theme “Calibrating Mind to See Waste”, is the 3rd Lean Transformation Summit organised by the Institute of Lean Management Ltd., the leading Lean Institute in Sri Lanka. It will feature world-class lean experts and practitioners from the USA, UK, Japan, China and Asia Pacific region to share their knowledge and experience with Sri Lankan industries.

Over the two days of the Summit, participants, including middle to senior management, professional staff, administrators, directors and senior leaders - virtually any professional involved in or interested in change within their organisation, can learn directly from lean leaders who are making real change and getting tangible and intangible results in how they deliver and pay for products and services. The Summit will focus on areas such as knowledge-sharing, best practices, coaching, lean concepts and tools such as TPM and TPS.  

The keynote speaker will be Institute of Lean Management Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Thilak Pushpakumara, who will speak on the Summit topic ““Calibrating Mind to See Waste.”

Others speakers and their subjects are Shri Skandaraj - Group Director, Lean Enterprise, MAS Holdings

(Lean Journey at MAS); Aravinda Perera - Managing Director, Royal Ceramics Lanka PLC

(Transformational Leadership); Deepal Sooriyaarachchi – Director, AIA Insurance Lanka PLC (STOP to Observe the essentials of a LEAN Mind); Sunil Wijesinha - Chairman, Watawala Plantations PLC

(Transformational Leadership); Gayani De Alwis - Chairperson, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (Lean Thinking in Logistic); Yukio Ando - Course Director, Institute of Lean Management Ltd. /Former Engineer, Aichi Steel, Japan (Standardised Worksheet); Valery Kazarin - Lean Production Consultant, Russia (Lean Assessment) and (SMED Application); Ian Buxton - Director, Process42 Ltd., United Kingdom (Making Invisible Visible); Anil Sachdev -President, TQM International Ltd., India

(Integration of TQM in Lean Management)and (Hoshin Kanri – Policy Deployment); Prof. Cherdchai Nopmaneejumruslers - Assistant Director, Siriraj Hospital, Thailand, (Lean Hospital); Manickavasagam Palaniandy - CEO, Lean Partner, Malaysia (The Application of Lean Concepts to Drive Business Performance in Banking); Ramesh Rao - Founder, Nicheve Consulting Services, Singapore

(Lean Thinking in Finance); Dhammika Ponnamperuma - Factory Manager, Rocell Bathware Ltd.

(Problem Solving Case Study); Manone Perera - Country Supply Chain Capability Development Manager, Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Ltd. (Problem Solving with FMEA); and Dr. Hugo Wisidagama -  President, International Project Management Consultants Consortium (Digital Infrastructure Integration in Lean Principles).

Institute of Lean Management (ILM) is the leading lean management institute in Sri Lanka. They introduce world-class best practices to Sri Lankan industries and develop world-class manufacturing leaders, TPM Practitioners, lean practitioners, Lean Certified HR professionals and Change Agents. More than 50,000 professionals followed ILM public seminars, workshops and in-house training related to Lean Management, Total Productive Maintenance & Management (TPM), and Toyota Production System (TPS), and have certified over 1500 Lean and TPM practitioners since 2009. More than 300 leading organisations have invested in ILM services to develop their processes and human resources.

The conference attendees are a blend of cross sections which include business leaders, policymakers, senior industrial, HR, finance and manufacturing professionals, entrepreneurs, founders, experts working in leading organisations and other dignitaries.