Here's a copy of the slidepack from our recent Introduction to Lean Sigma seminar. Thanks to all those who attended and whose input and contributions added to the day. Click on the icon at the top-right of the panel below for a full screen view.

On Monday through Wednesday, Ian and Craig are co-presenting the DoE for Bioprocess Optimisation course at University College, London. This is one of the units in the Modular Training for the Bioprocess Industries Programme (MBI®) run by the Department of Biochemical Engineering at UCL.

Guest speaker on Monday is Phil Borman of GlaxoSmithKline. At GSK, Phil is a manager in Strategic Technologies, Chemical Development, based at Stevenage.

Here’s a link to  a PharmTech paper, which Phil co-authored and upon which his talk is based.

You can also read Craig’s article that introduces the DoE for Bioprocess Optimisation module itself.

On Thurs 26th March, we’ll be running our new, free one-day seminar Introduction to Lean Sigma, at the Cambridge Innovation Centre. If you're keen to get to grips with Lean Sigma and want to achieve sustainable, measurable improvements in customer service, product and process quality, then this is for you.

Attendance is free, and you can register your free place on-line.

An Introduction to Lean Sigma: One-day seminar

1000-1630 26th March 2009.

• Introducing Lean Sigma: Lean Sigma overview and history. DMAIC project framework explained.
• Benefits available: The benefits of a Lean Sigma approach to business change and improvement.
• Lean Sigma in use: Examples. Developing an improvement strategy for your company.
• Getting started: Making the case for, and deploying Lean Sigma in your organisation.

Workshop Fee: free

Tea, coffee included. Buy your own lunch in the canteen.

Venue:

10:00-4:30, 26 March 2009, Cambridge Innovation Centre (map)

This session is a taster for the full Black Belt programme that we are planning to run in the second half of this year.

As part of our BBSRC-supported collaboration with the Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering at University College, London, we are co-presenting a DoE for BioProcess Optimisation 3-day workshop at UCL on 16-18 March 2009.  The scope is described here by our presenter Craig Gershater:

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On Tue 17th and Wed 18th Sept, we’ll be running our popular Design of Experiments Workshops at the St Johns Innovation Centre in Cambridge. You can sign up now...

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We’ve had a chance now to gather breath and do some follow-ups after the latest running of the Understanding Chemical Processes workshop hosted by the S3RI at Southampton University. It was a very busy and intense 3 days – and thanks should go to the sponsors, in particular GSK, AstraZeneca and the Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network, for keeping the registration fees at the nominal level. This made for a really impressive take-up from academia for places on the workshop. 10 of the top universities in the UK and Ireland were represented among the 25 postgrads and lecturers who attended. We had at least one representative from each of the following institutions:

• Bangor University
• University of Bristol
• Herriot-Watt University
• Imperial College London
• Dublin City University
• University of Southampton
• University of Oxford
• Durham University
• University of Strathclyde
• Loughborough University