This event is kindly being hosted and sponsored by Unipart Eberspacher Exhaust Systems, Coventry.

This event will begin with a Manufacturing Tour of Unipart which will give an overview of Lean Model Line in a Modern day Automotive Production Environment.

David Blackbrough from Unipart will then deliver a presentation to the group Lean Manufacturing. This presentation will show Lean in the Manufacturing Environment.

Karl-Heinz Hoffmann from SAP will present Leveraging Service Orientated Architecture in Plant Maintenance. This session will provide an overview of SAP's Approach to Service's Orientated Architecture and the Business Process Platform. How the concepts and technology can be leveraged to make the plant maintenance processes more agile, serving multiple channels and extending into the Business Network.

There will also be an opportunity for you to bring your thoughts, problems and questions for discussion with the group in the Open Forum session. There will also be a Notifications for refurbishment order from Nick Dillon-White from the RNLI.