SWEGON OPERATIONS Factory Tour

Bonfiglioli Consulting and Swegon Operations present an exclusive living experience to share the growth path with people at the center and the approach Lean World Class® as flywheel.

Swegon Operations, part of Swegon Group AB, owned by Investment AB Latour and listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, is a manufacturer of ventilation, heating, cooling and climate optimization solutions. The Group has, today, more than +3,000 employees, a turnover of about 600 million euros and has subsidiaries and distributors worldwide and 21 production plants in Europe, North America and India.

From the live voices of the protagonists, one can appreciate in the field the path of Lean Transformation which is impacting all key components of the manufacturing area: internal logistics and warehousing, planning, production, organization, and human resources in order to increase operational efficiency, improve service levels, and increase corporate culture and skills through the dissemination of operational methodologies.

Milestones:

• Implementation of the pillars of the Lean World Class®:
  • Focused Improvement and Change Management: Transformation comes from people. Through involvement and by making the best use of the skills present, the goal is to create an Agile Factory, organized and with Visual Management tools and Teams focused on supporting the achievement of shared goals and day-to-day management.
  • Workplace Organization: efficiency and improvement come through active participation of people. Daily and weekly meetings create constant discussion, where every voice counts to optimize work and achieve goals.
  • Quality: a system in which those working on the line take the lead in quality, to ensure good products the first time through structured quality controls based on direct involvement of resources in resolving anomalies.
  • Internal Logistics: Synchronize logistics with production demand with the goal of fully satisfying internal customers through a pulled production flow with continuous internal inventory reduction and creating efficiency in warehouse and line-servicing activities.

The Project Goals:

• Lead Time Reduction And improving the level of service to the Customer.
• Increased production efficiency, through the reorganization of activities and the introduction of Visual Management tools.
• Quality improvement through more structured control of processes and components.
• Training and involvement of resources In a system of continuous improvement.
• Optimization of internal logistics, with the revision of supermarkets and the creation of new management standards.

Agenda

9.30 Participant Registration and Welcome Coffee

10.00 - 10.30 Swegon and Bonfiglioli Consulting Presentation

10.30 - 11.00 The Lean Transformation path toward the Agile Factory model

11.00 - 12.30 Factory Tour | Lean intervention presented in the field through a guided tour of the factory

12.30 - 13.00 Roundtable discussion and insights on critical factors to be guarded in the transformation journey

13.00 Closing remarks with networking light lunch

INTERVENGE

• Michele Bonfiglioli | CEO, Bonfiglioli Consulting
• Andrew White | Operations Director, Swegon
• Andrea Bottazzo | Business Unit Director Cooling & Heating, Swegon
• Free Salad | HR Director, Swegon

EVENT VENUE:

Swegon Operations s.r.l.
via Valletta, 5 - 30010 Cantarana di Cona (VE)