Plant
Tour: Philips Respironics
Friday, September 24, 2010
Philips
Respironics -- New Kensington, PA
Philips Respironics' mission is to improve quality of life for at-risk
individuals in the home through better awareness, diagnosis, treatment,
monitoring, and management of their conditions. Philips Respironics
manufacturing plants provide exceptional quality and operational best practices
to our worldwide customers. The products at the Philips Respironics Sleep
Therapy (RIST) facility include our System One Sleep Therapy system, SleepEasy
1 & 2, and most non-invasive ventilation electromechanical products.
Occupying 172,000 square feet and situated on 33 acres, RIST has 100,000 square
feet of warehouse/production space and 65,000 square feet of office space. RIST
is home to approximately 250 associates.
The size of this facility isn't its only impressive characteristic. A circular
material presentation conveyer system allows for high-volume, low-parts
manufacturing. Assemblers are situated at the beginning of the lines, and parts
are delivered directly to the production floor via fork trucks. Such process
improvements significantly reduce overall production time. Also contributing to
a more effective flow is the computerized sortation process which occurs on the
mezzanine, as well as a new literature collator.
The Material Logistics groups also reside at RIST and benefits from increased
efficiencies. There are 20 dock doors, four times as many as the Murrysville
facility (RIMR). High-density flow racks were installed to create deeper
storage areas for a higher volume of product, and the Incoming Inspection area
is located outside the warehouse in a more controlled environment. The Reverse
Logistics team supports Return to Stock ("RTS") and the rework of selected
products.
What
You Will See on the Tour:
The tour will take you through the facility summarizing all processes from
receiving to shipping. We will highlight many process and efficiency gains
achieved when we moved the electromechanical and high volume ventilation
products to this new facility. In this virtually paperless factory, you will
see examples of Kanban, Visual Management, Demand Flow Technology (DFT), Quick
& Easy Kaizen (QEK), 5S and QCDSM. QCDSM is the catalyst for our continuous
improvement efforts and focuses on measuring and improving Quality, Cost,
Delivery, Safety and Morale. We will also emphasize
examples of Employee Engagement throughout the tour.
Tour
Departure Location:
Hyatt Place Cranberry
136 Emeryville Drive
Cranberry Township, PA 16066
(724) 779-7900
*Important Note: Even if you are local to the area and do not require
overnight accommodations, ALL plant tour participants must gather at the
designated hotel and travel as a group to the facility. Participants are NOT
permitted to drive separately in their own vehicles to the facility.
Schedule:
11:00am 12:00pm
Attendee Check-In Hyatt Place Cranberry & Lunch
12:00pm Attendees Board Motor Coach for Philips Respironics
12:45pm Arrive at Philips Respironics
12:45pm 1:15pm Overview of Philips Respironics
1:15pm 2:45pm Tour
2:45pm 3:15pm Question and Answer
3:15pm Attendees Board Motor Coach
4:00pm Return to Hyatt Place Cranberry Hotel & Everyone Departs
Tour
Guidelines:
No open toe/open back
shoes or sandals.
No photography allowed
in the plant.
Tour
Sponsor:
Preclusion statement: IW
may be required to preclude attendees from taking part in your selected plant
tour. This step will be taken solely by IW at the request of our host plant
based upon the proprietary nature of information that is to be presented. The
host plants' decisions are final and will be communicated to attendees in
advance. If this occurs, attendee will be refunded the full registration fee.
Some participants on the tour may be asked to complete a Non Disclosure
Agreement (NDA).
Registration
Contact Information:
Erika Bailey, Director of Marketing & Events,
ebailey@industryweek.com, 216-931-9512
Philips Respironics' mission is to improve quality of life for at-risk
individuals in the home through better awareness, diagnosis, treatment,
monitoring, and management of their conditions. Philips Respironics
manufacturing plants provide exceptional quality and operational best practices
to our worldwide customers. The products at the Philips Respironics Sleep
Therapy (RIST) facility include our System One Sleep Therapy system, SleepEasy
1 & 2, and most non-invasive ventilation electromechanical products.
Occupying 172,000 square feet and situated on 33 acres, RIST has 100,000 square
feet of warehouse/production space and 65,000 square feet of office space. RIST
is home to approximately 250 associates.
The tour will take you through the facility summarizing all processes from
receiving to shipping. We will highlight many process and efficiency gains
achieved when we moved the electromechanical and high volume ventilation
products to this new facility. In this virtually paperless factory, you will
see examples of Kanban, Visual Management, Demand Flow Technology (DFT), Quick
& Easy Kaizen (QEK), 5S and QCDSM. QCDSM is the catalyst for our continuous
improvement efforts and focuses on measuring and improving Quality, Cost,
Delivery, Safety and Morale. We will also emphasize
examples of Employee Engagement throughout the tour.
