Lean Accounting: Summit in the Fall ...

Lean Accounting Summit

... "Flexware Innovation announces the first annual Lean Accounting Summit to take place in Dearborn, Michigan September 22-23, 2005. The event is being sponsored by Flexware, the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), and the Society for Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and will feature more than 20 lean accounting thought-leaders. Notable presenters will include, among others, Tom Johnson, Professor of Business Administration at Portland State University, Brian Maskell, President of BMA Inc., and Orry Fiume, 2004 Shingo Prize winning author of Real Numbers: Management Accounting in a Lean Organization." ...

Flexware was founded in 1996 by Scott Whitlock as a manufacturing IT and automation services company. The company quickly formed a niche in Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), helping companies strategize, select, and implement custom and commercial-off-the-shelf systems. Flexware employs more than 30 manufacturing systems professionals and support staff, serving clients in the pharmaceutical, medical device, assembly, and automotive industries. In 2002 Flexware defined a unique continuous improvement process called highlandpath to guide clients through operational and enterprise excellence transformations. This group utilizes this proprietary process to find high leverage, high meaning opportunities and seizes those opportunities with the best of Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement methodologies.