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Greg
West B. E.; M. Eng. Sc. MIAMA; MLI(USA)
Managing
Director, Farthing West
Greg
is a skilled practitioner of supply chain optimisation and has
mentored staff and led “Lean Think” problem solving teams in many of
Australia’s largest organisations. He is the founder of Farthing
West and has over the past 15 years assisted client organisations
substantially improve profit and lower costs. His Masters Degree,
specialising in systems analysis, has provided the key skills to
model and analyse complex commercial and operational situations.
Greg is a member of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators
Australia. Greg is also a member of the Lean Institute (USA).
Greg
has very broad and robust “hands on” experience in supervision,
project control and design and has held senior management positions
in Metal Manufactures, Cable Makers Australia and Viscount Caravans.
He has a detailed knowledge of production processes, planning and
systems design. He demonstrates exceptional creativity and
motivation of cross-functional teams in continuous improvement
programs.
Greg’s
extensive hands on experience in the Mining Industry includes work
for Tahmoor, Metropolitan, Power Coal, Centennial, Clutha Development
Pty Limited, NSW Colliery Proprietors, Australian Iron and Steel,
Ivanhoe Colliery, Southern Mines Rescue Service, Capricorn Coal
Management, Warkworth Open Cut Mine and Centennial Coal. The scope
of work includes continuous and longwall mining operations, conveying
and storage systems, above ground and underground roadway
construction, feasibility studies and simulations, development of
alternative strategies for the mining, preparation and transport of
underground and open cut coal, longwall materials handling studies,
determination of suitable surface site requirements for new mines,
reviews of overall mine design, equipment selection and performance,
operating costs, manning and infrastructure, and design and
development of belt management programs to assist with performance,
safety and conformance management.
Greg
utilises a systemic, “whole of business”, approach in the review of
process flow and business procedures. His analytical and managerial
experience is combined with highly developed skills in facilitation
that assists clients to quickly identify high leverage profit
improvement areas in the total business supply chain and through the
involvement of client staff significantly expedites implementation.
Greg
has excellent communication skills and imparts his fully mature grasp
of redesigning work systems to eliminate “muda” (waste) and improve
value adding through providing practical assistance with problem
solution.
Dr. John Winchester
BSc., Dip Ed., M.Ed. (Hons), Ad. Dip (Bus
Mgt), Ph. D
John
Winchester is a Director of Farthing West Pty Limited specialising in
the development of Lean Thinking cultures in businesses and
organisations. He has extensive experience in industrial research
having been a research leader in the Vocational Education and
Training sector. This research conducted as part of the National
Training Reform Agenda was concerned with how persons in businesses
and organisations developed generic competencies such as analysis,
problem solving, communication and teamwork skills. He has written a
number of training packages for businesses including a VETAB endorsed
package.
John
is a member of the Lean Institute (USA) and Lean Institute (Aust).
John
has had papers published in National and International Mining
Journals, Improving Value Adding Time, Accounting for Intangibles,
Releasing Initiative and Enthusiasm in the Workforce and Improving
the “people” management skills of frontline managers. These
papers were related to case study work on Lean interventions that he
and the Farthing West team conducted in coal mines in NSW.
In
2004 John presented a refereed paper, Knowledge Mismanagement and
the Destruction of Social Capital in Communities, at the
International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change Management
at the University of Greenwich, London. This paper based on social research
showed how people in marginalised communities were adversely impacted
on by the failure of peak social service institutions to take a
trans-disciplinary Lean Thinking approach to service delivery.
John’s
specialty is the development of sustainable change, using Lean
Thinking approaches in businesses and organisations that continually
need to adapt to meet the challenges of ever changing environments.
His doctoral research was concerned with developing business and
social intervention methodologies that related personal and
organisational learning to Supply Chain Optimisation (Value
Streams). John routinely facilitates organisational initiatives to
solve complex systemic problems using lean tools with “in house”
teams to achieve measurable improvements.
John
has also facilitated Enterprise Agreements between workers and
management.
Chris Corben B. E., Grad. Dip.
Admin. (Distinction)
PCert Mediation; PCert Arbitration
Chris
Corben is a Director of Farthing West Pty Limited, and for the past
12 years has specialised in the application of Lean Thinking
Implementation Programs to drive out waste and add value across the
total value chain of client businesses. Chris is graduate in
business administration from UTS and engineering from UNSW. Chris also
holds a Practitioners Certificate in Commercial Mediation from the
Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia and a Professional
Certificate in Arbitration from the University of Adelaide. Chris is
a member of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia. He
is also a member of the Lean Institute (USA).
Chris
has demonstrated expertise in facilitating cross-functional business
teams involved in solving highly complex problems. He has applied
these skills to a range of problem areas across commercial and
government sectors. Examples include operational improvement
programs for major companies such as the Crane Group, Southcorp,
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Uncle Ben’s, Clyde Engineering, SimsMetal, BOC
Gases, Boral Australia, McPhersons Consumer Products, Austral Coal,
BHP Billiton and The Smith Family Commercial Enterprise, to name a
few.
Examples
also include break-through mediation and joint action planning
between police and Aboriginal communities in urban and outback areas
of NSW, business planning and organisational development programs for
semi autonomous commercial organisations such as State Water and
professional bodies such as the Institute of Municipal Engineers
Australia. Challenging assignments have also included the design and
facilitation of major public consultation forums on land use and
lifestyle issues for Warringah Council.
Prior
to joining Farthing West Chris enjoyed over 20 years senior
management experience in major government enterprises with national
recognition in the areas of community safety and roads & traffic
management. During this time Chris served on national policy bodies,
and Committees of the Standards Association of Australia. Chris has
also been an assessor in accreditation for the National Association
of Testing Authorities (NATA).
Eric Germes ME; MBA
Eric
Germes is a Director of Quantum Business Enterprises and has been a
principal associate of Farthing West on numerous business assignments
involving Lean Thinking and Value Stream Mapping. Eric holds a Masters
Degree in Engineering and a Masters Degree in Business
Administration.
Eric
started his career with PBA as a consultant in operations
management. In 1988, he was part of teams introducing JIT and TPS
related techniques at Peugeot, SNECMA (aircraft engine maker) Rhone
Poulenc and Pechiney, amongst others).
In
1994, Eric went to Japan to study Japanese and have first hand
exposure to Japanese efficiency techniques. He was pleased to be
accepted by Toyota for intensive 6-months full time training in management
within one of the largest manufacturing plants in Japan. In 1995,
this plant was piloting a new methodology for predicting Quality
performance prior to SOP.
Eric
was trained as a Valeo Senior Manager. Toyota ‘s objective was to
help accelerate the development of the Valeo Production System prior
to the SOP of the Valencienne Plant in France. Subsequently he
became internal consultant to the board and to the manufacturing
plants for TPS and TQC related implementations.
For
reference, Valeo has about 70,000 employees in 140 manufacturing
centres worldwide, 100% dedicated to manufacturing equipments for the
automotive industry.
Thanks
to an excellent production quality track record, Eric’s Branch (Valeo
Lighting Systems) 1994 - 2001 sales to the Japanese auto industry
rose USD 50M to 200M. At about this time Eric undertook the MBA at
the AGSM and was a leading student, winning the Farthing West prize
for Operational Management at the AGSM.
A key
association since graduation from the AGSM, Eric has been providing
consulting services to Electrolux Home Products on their incoming
goods supply chain management, their production scheduling system and
the optimization of their finished goods national distribution
system.
During
these studies, Eric was involved with investigating and solving
numerous issues in relation to practical implementation of JIT,
Heijunka and KANBAN, including the set-up of JIT-capable inventory
and forecasting software.
In
recent years Eric has facilitated Lean interventions with numerous
organisations. Eric has also developed a suite of Lean IT web
services/tools to assist manufacturing and services organizations
with Lean implementation.
Brad Harrison
B.Bus., Grad Dip. Mgt.
Brad
Harrison is Director of Rhaisorn Pty Ltd and has been a principal
associate of Farthing West on numerous business assignments involving
Lean Thinking and supply chain management.
Brad’s
expertise covers process/productivity improvement, ERP system
implementation, inventory management, sales & operations
planning, purchasing, production planning, distribution, warehousing,
logistics.
Brad
holds a Bachelor of Business (Kuring-gai CAE) and a Graduate Diploma
of Management (Central Queensland University). Brad also holds two
TAFE certificates, the first in Purchasing and Supply and the second
in Packaging.
For
thirty years he has been working in improving supply chains within
the food, pharmaceutical and industrial businesses. His experience
in factory operations, warehousing and distribution, third party
logistics, demand forecasting, production planning, purchasing,
importing and exporting, and the associated systems that support
these functions (ERP, Forecasting, WMS, TMS etc.) has enabled him to
deliver significant value to organisations.
Brad’s
prior career involved significant packaging buying and auditing of
suppliers’ businesses as part of the supplier validation programs he
has implemented. In many companies Brad’s role incorporated
packaging development, including artwork and often had Packaging
Engineers reporting two him.
Carole Hancock
Carole
Hancock has been a principal associate of Farthing West on numerous
business assignments involving Lean Thinking applied to strategic
planning and marketing.
With
technical qualifications in Therapeutic Radiology (now Radiation
Oncology) and Nuclear Medicine, Carole's initial career was in the
medical arena, which provided a solid base for objective process and
managing "customer" relationships.
Moving
to the corporate sector, Carole increasingly broadened her analytical
and managerial skills as she gained extensive experience in service
industries, business-to-business organisations and government,
achieving divisional leadership positions in marketing, strategic
planning and general management.
Carole
has an impressive and proven track record in achieving ambitious
goals at executive management level in both Australian based and
overseas roles. Her achievements are especially evident in roles with
the South Australian Tourism Commission, the Australian Tourist
Commission and Myer-Grace Bros.
Carole
has been responsible for several major restructures, creating a
higher skills bases within teams and influencing significant change
in attitude within industry groups. Cultural change has been a
characteristic of her management, encouraging greater individual
empowerment as well as team development.
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