Events

May
15
Wed
Tesla Motors: The Challenge of Building a Supply Chain from Scratch
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Presented by Peter Carlsson, Vice President of Supply Chain, Tesla Motors, and hosted by the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society).  Details:  http://www.apics-west.org/events/2013/tesla.pdf

Jun
18
Tue
Lean Six Sigma by Peno Pan, a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt @ Los Charros Restaurant
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM

Peno Pan is a certified lean/ six sigma black belt and PMP project manager with 30 years of engineering and management experience spanning all functional areas of a program’s product life cycle from proposal development to final product delivery. The majority of his experiences are in the space industry including NASA’s manned space flight programs, Space Shuttle and International Space Station, various DoD satellite programs and multiple domestic and foreign commercial satellite programs.

He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Florida and advanced degrees in Metallurgy and Management of Technology as well as an MBA.

This is a presentation with lunch event. The presentation is free. The restaurant has an a variety of choices in burritos and sandwiches for about $6-8.

Details and signup: http://www.meetup.com/BayAreaOperationsManagement/events/123565372/

 

 

 

 

Jun
25
Tue
Best Practices (and Pitfalls) in Developing and Managing Supply-Chain Reporting @ TBD (Silicon Valley, California)
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM

Reporting is key to an efficient, responsive, lean, and profitable supply chain.  Yet reporting is often seen as (and is) a real obstacle to improvement.

In this interactive session we will review best practices to ensure that the most common mistakes are avoided:

- Pipeline of report development

- Requirements gathering

- Testing

- Ad-hoc vs. standard reports

- How many reports are needed

- IT or not IT?

Details: http://www.meetup.com/BayAreaOperationsManagement/events/124035112/

 

 

 

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    • “At Western Digital, I brought in Bob Kotcher based on his exemplary job performance, project management skills, academic & practical knowledge, and teamwork/communications skills, all of which Bob had repeatedly demonstrated to me when I had the opportunity to work with him prior to Western Digital. Bob brought with him world-class academic credentials and a simply outstanding knowledge of Factory Physics, including Capacity Modeling, Cycle-Time Simulation, and Lean Manufacturing. Bob is a great guy to work with and would be a valued member of any operations staff wanting to improve its productivity and/or lower operating costs. He won’t let you down.”

      Guy Harper – Engineering Projects Director
      Calisolar, Inc.
    • “At MMC, Bob initiated and led numerous cross-functional process improvement teams that made significant improvements to our production. For example, in one area, he linked together several disparate operations into a cell, reducing cycle time and WIP by 97% and saving $220,000 a year in labor and damaged product.”

      John Kim – Director, Thermal Reactor Process Engineering
      Nuvosun
    • “At Headway Technologies, we were planning a major capital investment in an additional photolithography stepper tool in order to improve throughput at this bottleneck. Bob did a Monte Carlo simulation analysis of this area and found something that none of us had suspected. The capacity at this work-center was actually operator-constrained, not machine-constrained. He showed us how, by adding operators, we could meet the required capacity increase. A few additional operators in the photolithography area kept these tools at an optimum utilization and this extra Opex was a small fraction of the capital depreciation that another stepper would have cost.” 

      Guy Harper – Engineering Projects Director
      Calisolar, Inc.
    • “At each company that he works with, [Simitar founder Bob Kotcher] strives to improve day-to-day operations, and thus to improve the bottom line.  Bob is not afraid to present politically unpalatable truths, if his work suggests that a change will lead to overall improvement.”

      Dr. Jennifer Robinson – Chief Operating Officer
      Fabtime, Inc.