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Lean Enterprise Institute Polska

Country: Poland
Language(s): English, Polish

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Phone: +48 71 798-5733
Mailing Address: ul. Muchoborska 18
54-424 Wroclaw
Poland

Website: http://www.lean.org.pl
Store: http://leanbooks.com/
Education: http://lean.org.pl/en/szkolenia.html

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Tomasz Koch, President

Tomasz Koch is president and co-founder of Lean Enterprise Institute Polska created in 2006 whose main purpose is to disseminate the principles and practices of Lean Thinking in companies and other organizations in Poland.

Before starting an independent Lean Institute Prof. Tomasz Koch created Lean Manufacturing Program at Wroclaw University of Technology in 1999. The main focus of the program was to develop a lean training program offered by Wroclaw Centre for Technology Transfer. His team was then supported by Lean Program of Center for Manufacturing, University of Kentucky.

Prof. Tomasz Koch is co-author of the Polish edition of Learning to See, Creating Continuous Flow, Making Materials Flow and Seeing the Whole as well the author of the forewords to those workbooks.

Currently he is professor at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (CAMT) within Institute of Production Engineering and Automation of the Wroclaw University of Technology. He is an author or co-author of over 100 scientific papers and articles and successfully supervised 10 PhDs.

He holds M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Wroclaw University of Technology (1980), a Ph.D. from the same university (1984) and D.Sc. from Technical University of Cracow (1996) both in Mechanical Engineering, and professor title (2006). He has international experience both in education and research from University of Stuttgart (2,5 years), Brunel University in London (9 months) and being full time visiting associate professor at Central Connecticut State University.

Events hosted by Lean Enterprise Institute Polska

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Past · June 14, 2011 – June 16, 2011

XI International Lean Management Conference ›

International Lean Management Conference will take place in Poland (city of Wrocław) on 14-16 June 2011. It is the biggest Lean Management Conference in Central and Eastern Europe.

The program includes:

Polish and world famous experts;
Newest branch trends;
Fascinating practical workshops and seminars;
Continuously highest quality of content;

Visits in factories like Toyota Motor Manufacturing Poland and Faurecia in Wałbrzych as well as General Motors Manufacturing Poland in Gliwice;
Inspiring meetings with authors of Lean books.

Famous world Lean Management gurus will be special guests of the Conference: Mike Rother, who will conduct exceptional workshop: Toyota Kata, Michael Ballé, Orest Fiume, John Burton, and Marek Piątkowski.

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Past · June 22, 2010 – June 24, 2010

10th Lean Manufacturing Conference - Poland ›

Lean Enterprise Institute Polska’s 10th Lean Manufacturing Conference will be held in Mercure Panorama Hotel in Wroclaw on 22 – 24 June 2010. The special guest speakers for the event include three of the best known gurus from the lean movement: Dr. James Womack, Prof. Daniel Jones and John Shook.

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Past · June 16, 2009 – June 18, 2009

9th Lean Manufacturing Conference ›

The 9th Lean Manufacturing Conference organized by the Lean Enterprise Institute Polska took place on 16-18 June 2009 at the Mercure Panorama hotel. Next to manufacturing related subjects, this year, lean logistics related topics and lean culture issues, like coaching skills and A3 process, were contained in the program. Guest speakers this year included: David Verble, Ian Glenday, Robert Martichenko and Marek Piatkowski.

For a detailed summary of the event, including photos, please follow the external link.