Toronto Chapter 26

Society of
Manufacturing
Engineers

Toronto Chapter 26

Bulletin January 2007

Web: http://chapters.sme.org/026/

STG / SME Toronto Chapter 26 Event: Canada Post Lean Plant Tour

UPDATED Date and time is Tuesday, January 30, 2007. 6:15 pm! – approx. 9:00 pm http://chapters.sme.org/026/

Tour: Canada Post Lean Plant Tour
South Central Processing Plant
969 Eastern Avenue, Toronto
click here for Map.
UPDATED Date and time is Tuesday, January 30, 2007. 6:15 pm! – approx. 9:00 pm Please sign-up for this tour. Numbers of sign ups are limit.

Sign-up required ASAP - Friends & colleagues are very welcome!
Reservation: Juergen Boenisch, Juergen.Boenisch@jbemc.com
with your name, company, contact information (phone number and email).

Priority for tour sign-up is: members, student members and non-members, in that order.

STG event pricing is as follows $15 for members (CMTDMF -Canadian Machine Tool, Die & Mold Federation- included), $20 for non-members, student members $8. Includes Presentation, Tour, Talk & Discussion.

Directions: . Take QEW East towards Beeches (don’t go on Don Valley Pkwy), it changes to Lake Shore Blvd. E, turn left on Leslie Street (N), next right into Eastern Ave. (E), 300m right hand side, park and use main entrance through security
(Click here: For Map Details or for Satellite View)

Plant Tour Information: We will tour the letter processing plant in the evening when the largest amount of letters will be processed. Prior to the tour and overview about Canada Post and its Lean Journey will be provided by Scott MacKinnon, Manager Performance Excellence CRM & Six Sigma.

About Canada Post : Canada Post began its Lean Journey in the mid 1990s when an operations executive took an interest in lean and process excellence, and struck up a working relationship with Jim Womack, co-author of Lean Thinking, and founder of The Lean Enterprise Institute (Boston). when they started their lean initiatives everything was crowded and there was no free space in many of their facilities. Over time they rearranged machines, cleaned up the mail flow, and freed up space. In Toronto for instance, Canada Post had five letter mail facilities. Those five became one, occupying a footprint that nobody would have thought was possible many years ago. Today, on top of their efforts to improve mail flow within each facility, Canada Post is working to unify its operations, standardizing processes and best practices across the organization. The constant goal: The right product in the right place at the right time, all of the time. Specially trained "lean six sigma" leaders coordinate many of these projects. Armed with a black-or green-belt training certification, they collect data and apply lean material flow and six sigma statistical tools to identify the greatest opportunities for improvement, and then implement changes.

Scott McKinnon is the “Manager Performance Excellence CRM & Six Sigma” and part of a supply-chain integration team and works out of the South Central letter processing plant we are going to tour. The facility processes nine million pieces of letter mail per day.

"Years ago it was always a mad rush on the dispatch; things coming and going. Chances for flaws and loss of integrity in quality were a lot higher than they are today," MacKinnon says. "Input quality and scheduling excellence, the combination of those two items will give us extremely strong capability of providing one-day local-to-local letter mail delivery out of this plant to our delivery customers."

Canada Post's primary metric is delivery time. A system-wide audit reported that 96.8% of mail arrived within the service targets, which range from next day to four days depending upon distance.

Upcoming Topics & Schedule 2006-07 (see http://chapters.sme.org/026/ for details)

Future Events
31-May-07	SME Tour/Talk	Bowmanville Foundry - Not Confirmed
26-Apr-07	SME Tour/Talk	Bombardier - Not Confirmed
30-Apr-06	STG Talk	TPS workshop with Toyota representative - Not Confirmed
22-Mar-07	SME Tour/Talk	Honda Automotive tour - Confirmed
26-Mar-06	STG Tour	Lean Plant Tour at CTS of Canada www.ctscorp.com
26-Feb-06	SME STG Tour	Lean Plant Tour at Dofasco Inc. www.dofasco.ca - Confirmed
See web site	STG Tour	Canada Post Tour

Please contact Juergen.Boenisch@jbemc.com for STG registrations.

Please contact Lgiurici@celestica.com for Regular SME registrations.

Past Events
Dec. 14, 2006	SME	Christmas Event – at “Mandarin”
Dec. 11, 2006	STG	The “Six Sigma” Implementation Workshop
Nov. 30, 2006	SME	Lean Dinner Talk & Executive Elections
Nov. 27, 2006	STG	Lean Plant Tour & Workshop at MAGELLAN Aerospace www.magellan.aero

Chair year end message from Wendy Chen

Dear Members and Friends of Toronto Chapter 26,

On behalf of our chapter executive committee, I would like to extend our warmest season’s greetings to you and your family. I Hope you had a happy holiday season and wish you a prosperous 2007!

Over the year of 2006, our chapter executives have worked very hard to provide our members with various activities. Some highlights include our 65th Anniversary Party, plant tours to Honda Alliston facility, Messier Dowty Oshawa facility, and technical presentations on machining and lean manufacturing, etc. These events provided our members and other professionals in manufacturing community around GTA with the opportunity to listen, see and learn. At the same time, people attended our programs and events were able to network with fellows in the different companies.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank our officers and executives for all the great efforts they put in. Especially mentioning: Rick Marmei, the Chair-Elect, has been our bulletin and web site editor to ensure that our members are well informed. Ken Shah, the Secretary, has been doing a great job keeping meeting minutes and also organized regional meeting as well as other events. Juergen Boenisch, the STG Champion, has organized various plant tours and workshops focusing on “the Human Side of Lean”. Farhad Shafiei, Past Chair, has been handling emailing bulletins to our members and continued to support our officers. Loris Giuricich has been supporting our programs by taking registrations for years. Jenny Ono Suttaby, Joe Benedetto, George Heintzman, Bruce Keeling, Ken Kogej and many other past chairs also supported us and gave us numerous great suggestions. Without the great work from all the above-mentioned, none of the programs and events could have happened, not to say have been so successful.

Year 2007 is approaching and our new officers will be serving your needs by putting together technical programs for educational and networking purposes. Please continue to support us by attending our chapter events. Feel free to contact any of our executives and let us know what you would like us to improve.

Once again, hope you had a nice holiday! See you in the New Year.
Best regards,

Wendy Chen

Chair of Year 2006 - SME Toronto Chapter 26

News

November SME Board Elections

The Election for the new SME Toronto Chapter 26 2007 Board of Directors was held at our last months Dinner Meeting on November 30, 2006. The following people were voted In as next years chairs in a short cerimony.

Rick Marmei - Chair 2007

Dr. Juergen Boenisch, Ph.D., Dipl.-Ing., CMC - Chair Elect 2007

Ken Shah - Treasurer 2007

Howard Huang - Secretary 2007

The Presidents Award was given to Juergen Boenisch for his outstanding work with the SME – Special Tech Group also known as STG. It should also be noted that at our Chapter 26 - 65^th Anniversary meeting this year other awards Given out this year Including SME Chapter 26 Lifetime Achievement Award given to Jenny and Jack Ono Suttaby and Sally and Joe Benedetto. And many 10-year, 15-year, 25-year , 50-year pins were also given out to our long standing members.

The 2007 SME 26 Board of directors. From Left to Right. Rick Marmei, Juergen Boenisch, Ken Shah, Howard Huang, and Wendy Chen

Howard didn’t have a biography published in the last bulletin so here are his history and qualifications. Thanks to him for filling in at the last Minute as our new secretary.

Howard Huang - SME Toronto Chapter 26 Secretary 2007
Howard possesses an Industrial Engineering degree from the University of Toronto. In the last five years, he has been closely involved with process improvement initiatives while working for various organizations. He has strong working knowledge in supply chain process, IT implementation, software product management, product delivery process and manufacturing process.

Currently, Howard is working full time as a member of CTS of Canada's automotive actuator manufacturing team, where he is closely involved with lean manufacturing, process improvement and scrap reduction initiatives. Prior to this, he was product manager for FMEA-Pro software.

Howard believes in life long learning and professional development. He is passionate to networking and helping others. In his pastime, Howard engages himself in many professional networking activities. He is also member of IIE, APICS, and HAPPEN. As well, Howard is a former director at large for IIE Toronto Chapter.

Dr. Juergen Boenisch Ph.D., receiving the Presidents award from Wendy Chen..

Wendy Chen M.A.Sc., ASQ-certified Six Sigma Black Belt - chair 2006 receiving A plaque for her work with the chapter from Rick Marmei chair 2007

Photos of Christmas party:

A photo of our last Christmas social night at the Mandarin Restaurant. On Dec. 14, 2006

Joseph R. Benedetto Scholarship

The Application Form for the Joseph R. Benedetto Scholarship is available on the chapter web site at:

http://chapters.sme.org/026/ $1000 dollars is to be awarded each spring to a Toronto area student member of SME who demonstrates potential and an intention of contributing to Canadian Manufacturing. This award is being given by Toronto Chapter 26 of The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). The purpose of SME is to promote excellence in manufacturing and to advance the profession of its sponsors and members. Questions? Please get in touch with Rick Marmei (416) 291-5866,

rmarmei@axis-design.org

Executive Meetings

NOTE: Meetings will be held on the first Thursday of each month (Click Here for current schedule)

First Thursday , 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm,

George Brown College

Venue: George Brown College, Building E, Room E244, 146, Kendal Ave., Toronto ON

Jan. 4 2007 7:00p SME Executive meeting - GB College
Feb. 1 2007 7:00p SME Executive meeting - GB College
Mar. 1 2007 7:00p SME Executive meeting - GB College
Apr. 5 2007 7:00p SME Executive meeting - GB College
May 3 2007 7:00p SME Executive meeting - GB College

Many Thanks to our BULLETIN PUBLICATION and WEB SITE SPONSORS:

Have your logo added here for the cost of Sponsorship.

Information and links at: http://chapters.sme.org/026/ Upcoming events: http://calendar.yahoo.ca/sme26toronto

EXECUTIVE LIST Please note changes **

Office	Name	Company	Phone	E-mail
Chair	Rick Marmei	Axis Tool Design	(416) 291-5866	rmarmei@axis-design.org
Chair-Elect.	Dr. Juergen Boenisch	Executive Management Consulting	(905) 847-9298	juergen.boenisch@jbemc.com
Secretary	Howard Huang	CTS of Canada	(416) 399-0026	huang_2803@yahoo.ca
Treasurer	Ken Shah	Solinst Canada Ltd	(416) 508-4434	shh_ken@yahoo.ca
Programs-Tours	Loris Giuricich	Celestica Inc.	(416) 448-2225	lgiurici@celestica.com
Member at large	Bruce Keeling		(705) 487-3970	bandi@sympatico.ca
Sponsorship Committee	Joe Benedetto	JRB Enterprises	(416) 267-2102	sallyandjoe@attglobal.net
Executive Advisor	Joe Benedetto	JRB Enterprises	(416) 267-2102	sallyandjoe@attglobal.net
RP Liaison	Vesna Cota	Tyco Electronics Canada Ltd.	(905) 474-5541	vcota@tycoelectronics.com
Web Site & Bulletin Ed.	Rick Marmei	Axis Tool Design	(416) 291-5866	rmarmei@axis-design.org
Member at large	George Heintzman	Systems Consultant	(416) 467-8298	gheintzman@sympatico.ca
George Brown Stu Advisor	John Camarda	Teacher	(416) 820-7742	camarda@georgebrown.ca
U of Toronto Stu Advisor	Beno Benhabib	Professor	(416) 978-3447	beno@mie.utoronto.ca
Ryerson U Stu Advisor	Farrokh Sharifi	Professor	(416) 979-5265	fsharifi@acs.ryerson.ca
Chair Ryerson Stu Ch 165	Claudia Zhang	U of T Chair		claudia.zk@gmail.com
Immediate Past Chair	Wendy Chen	KTM Locks, Magna	(416) 233-3203 **	w.chen@utoronto.ca
Past Chair	Farhad Shafiei	Commercial Roll Fmd Prod	(416) 881-8065	fshafiei@commercialroll.com
Past Chair	Ken Kogej	Fuchs Lubricants Canada Ltd.	(416) 553-2440	ken.kogej@sympatico.ca **

Our continuing thanks to Professor Mark Fox, U of T, for hosting the Chapter’s web site on his server at http://www.novator.com

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Call for Volunteers

The Toronto Chapter would be delighted to welcome anyone willing to contribute towards the activities and events of the chapter. Please feel free to contact any of the executive members for more information. The Chapter executive meets several times per year to plan and organize Toronto Chapter events. The executive positions are listed below:

* Vice-Chair * Secretary *Treasurer * Communication Chair * Program Chair * Education Chair * Executive Member-at-Large * Webmaster * bulletin editor

If you are interested please attend the Executive meeting on the First Thursday meeting of every month.

(See Exec meeting Schedule)

The SME Chapter 26 Bulletin

The SME Chapter 26 Bulletin is published eight or nine times a season by the Toronto Chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). The SME provides support for people and industries in manufacturing by providing opportunities for networking, professional development and technical information. Headquarters of this 70-year-old professional society are in Dearborn, Michigan.

For more information or to join, phone or email the Chapter 26 Chair, Rick Marmei, at (416) 291-5866 or

rmarmei@axis-design.org or HQ at 1-800-733-4763.

Talks and tours put on by the Chapter 26 are listed on the Chapter 26 web site at http://chapters.sme.org/026/ and SME Headquarters web site is at www.sme.org

Your Company flyer -

Enclosure Special Offer!!

Chapter 26 is offering companies the opportunity to enclose their company flyer in our monthly Bulletin mailing, either as hard copy or by e-mail. We have a special offer for the coming year. Enclosure in

one issue: $300, four issues: $1000, eight issues $1800

We mail Bulletins 8 times a year (Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec./ Jan., Feb., Mar, April, May) to nearly 500 manufacturing professionals in the GTA. For more information please get in touch with Ken Kogej, 416-274-2540 or ken.kogej@sympatico.ca

The piece to be included must meet the following criteria:

• 250 folded flyers ready for stuffing into a #10 envelope supplied by 1 week after copy deadline.

• Is of interest to our membership - is manufacturing oriented (we don’t want life insurance or travel brochures)

• Weighs less than 3 sheets of 8.5 x 11 in 20 lb. bond paper. Larger items could be negotiated.

• E-mail addresses or links to web sites must be fully checked and functional.

• We reserve the right to reject pieces we do not feel to be consistent with our professional goals and objectives.

• We reserve the right to change any of the above items without any notice.

Bulletin Copy Deadlines

NOTE: Please send material for inclusion in the upcoming Chapter 26 Bulletin to Rick Marmei at rmarmei@axis-design.org

Any feedback, suggestions regarding additions or improvements to the flyer would be greatly appreciated.

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