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Posted On: 11/04/2005

Conference Covers the A-to-Z of Lean Six Sigma for Manufacturing Excellence

PharmaManufacturing.com

The International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC) aims to bring scores of pharmaceutical manufacturing professionals to Philadelphia Feb. 27 through Mar. 1, 2006, for a conference on "Lean Six Sigma for Manufacturing Excellence in the Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Biopharmaceutical Industries."

Lean Six Sigma is the result of a successful hybridization that is increasing quality and efficiency as well as profitability in the pharmaceutical industry. The conference will highlight best practices in implementing Lean Six Sigma in pharma and biopharma manufacturing facilities.

Confirmed speakers (as of Nov. 7) are:

1. Swroop Sahota, Vice President, U.S. Quality Operations, Schering-Plough Corp.
2. Chris Driscoll, Associate Director of Quality Assurance, Amgen Inc.
3. Dr. Basem Haik, Author, Design for Six Sigma

Invited speakers represent manufacturing, engineering and operations functions within numerous pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies including Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, NABI Biopharmaceuticals and Human Genome Sciences.

Pre-Conference Workshops are:

• Applying Lean Manufacturing to Your Organization’s Process Excellence Program in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industry;
  
  
• The Principles and Deployment of Lean Six Sigma;
  
  
• Strategic Lean Six Sigma: Receiving Results Most Important to Your Business;
  
  
• Building a Measurement System for Lean Six Sigma – Using Data to Reduce Cycle Times and Improve Process;
  
  
• Taking Complexity out of the Lean Six Sigma Equation to Drive Profit and Growth.

For more information, visit: www.iqpc.com.