Benchmarking Best Practices in Executing Global Operational Excellence
A Two-Day Conference on How to Optimize TPM and Lean Systems During Tough Times

Explore How You Can Quickly Incorporate Milliken’s Award-Winning
Global Operational Processes Into Your Organization!
Attend this conference and you’ll hear Milliken, Kahiki Foods and ConAgra Foods showcase their strategies for achieving Lean, agile, aggressive and above all, safe manufacturing! During this rare glimpse into the outstanding strategies and processes of this privately-owned company, you will be benchmarking the only company in the US to achieve both the Malcolm Baldrige and the TPM® Excellence Award.

Included...
A Milliken Plant Tour Where You Can Experience
How Milliken Executes Its Global Operational
Excellence Processes First Hand!!!
Also Included

Why Benchmarking This Award-Winning Company Can Improve Your Organization

Milliken is a unique 143-year-old organization with real world, hands-on experience excelling in its operations to provide the organization a healthy bottom line. Privatelyowned, opportunities to see the company’s inner workings have been rare. But, during this conference you have a one-of-a-kind chance to learn from this company’s practices and proven processes. You will explore Milliken’s philosophy which is based on 8 pillars of discipline with safety supporting every facet of its operational excellence. Walk through Milliken’s step-by-step process toward organizational success, an evolution which took years for Milliken to master but one you can move through quickly. Take this opportunity to learn from Milliken experts and discover the company’s proven processes you can adopt to start your own journey. You’ll gain the practical, not theoretical knowledge needed to develop safe, streamlined processes which
lead to greater profits, and like Milliken you could earn greater recognition.

ConAgra Foods will share how it implemented Milliken’s outstanding practices in order to survive and win in the marketplace. You will discover how ConAgra Foods developed a culture that allowed them to sustain performance improvement, acquire a culture of zero-tolerance of waste and reduce 15- 20% of their manufacturing expense. ConAgra will share practical, real-life experiences as they discuss the critical aspects that are proven keys to success and lessons learned from practices they found to be highly detrimental to achieving true sustainable performance.

And finally ...

Kahiki Foods’ COO will share how his organization implemented what they learned from Milliken to refine the company’s processes, increase production, improve quality and expand its market base into the natural and organic business.

More than 25 years ago, Milliken & Company embarked on a journey called the “Pursuit of Excellence.” Since that time, the company has been recognized as among the best in the world. Who better for your organization to benchmark than Milliken & Company—an organization that has earned the following long list of recognitions:
• Named to 2008’s “World’s Most Ethical Companies” by the Ethisphere Institute
• Listed three times in Fortune magazine’s ratings of The 100 Best Companies to Work For!!!
• Winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award,
• Presented the TPM® Excellence Award given by the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance,
• The only company in American manufacturing history to win both the Malcolm Baldrige and the TPM® Excellence Award!!!