ViP Best Practice Club - Visit to Mazak in Worcester, 17 January 2008

The ViP Best Practice Club was set up to give UK printers the opportunity to see how other industries are using and benefiting from deploying Continuous Improvement or Lean Manufacturing techniques and tools in an advanced way and to provide inspiration and benchmarks for their own process improvement journeys.

Other manufacturing industries are typically more advanced in their use of these techniques, in part because they have been working on them for more years. Our best Practice Club visits allow print and packaging companies to see for themselves how worthwhile it is to make the effort to gain and sustain lean practices, both in terms of bottom line performance and involvement and motivation of the whole workforce. Participants on previous Best Practice Clubs have certainly found the visits useful and enlightening.

Mazak is the world's largest supplier of CNC Lathes, Machining Centres and Manufacturing Systems. Headquartered near Nagoya, Japan. They are an international company manufacturing advanced products
in Japan, USA, Europe and Singapore.Their European headquarters and manufacturing is based in Worcester and uses the most advanced manufacturing techniques in the industry. Mazak was the first Japanese machine tool builder to establish a manufacturing facility in Europe that handled all manufacturing operations from raw materials to finished product. This plant is currently the most advanced of its type in Europe, providing machine tools and sophisticated manufacturing systems to customers in more than 30 countries throughout Europe.It has an strong reputation for operational excellence and continuous improvement. www.mazak.co.uk

We can only take 20 delegates so please book quickly to secure your place(s).

17 January 2008, 10am ' 3.30 pm, only £125 +VAT per participant

For further information please contact Helen Dunn on 020 7915 8320 or helen.dunn@visioninprint.co.uk