Entek International

Entek International produces RhinoHide® PE Battery separators for starting, lighting and ignition (SLI) Lead-Acid Batteries. RhinoHide® separators batteries are used in automobile truck, bus, tractor and motorcycle batteries manufactured by the best lead-acid battery companies around the world. With manufacturing sites in Oregon and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne the company ships to battery manufacturers across the globe. All of the lines are based on continuous processing – from the raw materials to finished product winding.

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Continual improvement	The site embarked upon a Lean transformation in late 2004, and will discuss how it selected, trained and introduced the appropriate Lean tools for its journey. In particular the visit will focus on 5S, visual management, autonomous maintenance, standard operating procedures, focused improvement and Kaizen
Leadership	The host team will also talk about how they set about developing their leaders to help create a team capable of managing a Lean transformation.The site recognises there is still an enormous amount of work still to do, and can talk from experience about the challenges of taking a brown field site and embarking on a Lean culture change. As we all know – it’s not easy!
People Issues	Recent plant changes have required an expansion of the training effort within the company. The plant trainer will discuss how he has used training plans, training matrices, class room technical sessions, workbooks, training diaries, lean workshops etc. to help achieve this.

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