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. Entek designs and builds all manufacturing tooling equipment in-house, ensuring exact attention to detail and quality. With multiple manufacturing lines all of which are capable of producing the industry –standard RhinoHide® battery separators. All of the lines are based on continuous processing – from the raw materials to finished product winding.
Visit in 60 seconds
Continuous improvement … Lean Manufacturing … 5S … Visual Management … Autonomous Maintenance … Standard Operating Procedures … Kaizen … Lean Culture Change … Leadership … People Issues … Training Plans … Training Matrices … Training Diaries … Lean Workshops … PDCA … 5S Audits … Standardised work … Process improvement … Waste reduction
Topics covered by Entek International
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, focussed 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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Entek International dates
| Visit date | Visit Topics | Visit Location |
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Wed, 10th Nov 2010
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- Continual improvement
- Leadership
- People Issues
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Killingworth
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Testimonials about Entek International
“Excellent visit – very impressed with the tour and the presentation before hand.”
“Very informative.”
“Good example of a business really working on change.”
“The presentation was very well structured and backed up well with the factory tour where we could see theory in practice.”
“I gained a lot of information to take back to my company.”
“I was impressed by the presentation and the presenters.”
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