Sponsors & Exhibitors

Citect

Citect is the leading global provider of industrial automation, benchmarking & next generation manufacturing execution systems (MES). Citect has been providing global business solutions, engineering services and software to the automation market for over 30 years. Specializing in the delivery of innovative, reliable and cost effective solutions, Citect connects people in business and industry to real-time information in ways that improve business strategies and decisions.

www.citect.com

Taylor & Francis

Building on two centuries' experience, Taylor & Francis has grown rapidly over the last two decades to become a leading international academic publisher. The Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1000 journals and around 1,800 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles.

For further details please contact us at:
Taylor & Francis
Level 2, 11 Queens Rd
Melbourne VIC 3004
Tel: + (0)3 9866 2811
Fax: + (0)3 9866 8822
enquiries@tandf.com.au
www.tandf.co.uk/journals

Thornley Group

Thornley Group offers consultancy and training in the development and deployment of business excellence strategies.  Programmes are offered in Six-Sigma, Lean Operations, Strategy Deployment, Quality Systems and the tools and techniques required to create a sustainable, continuously improving, lean organisation. Whether you are a service or a manufacturing organisation, Thornley Group can help you move your business improvement programme forward.

Contact:
Mel Thornley
Thornley Group Ltd
Tel +64 6 355 5872
Mel.thornley@thornleygroup.co.nz
www.thornleygroup.co.nz

Massey University

Massey University is New Zealand’s largest university with three campuses and an extensive extramural programme.  A distinctive quality of Massey is its future-focused approach and commitment to research and research teaching, particularly in domains essential to New Zealand’s future social, cultural and economic growth.

Massey’s focus on providing ‘real-world’ solutions and its close links with industry means graduates are recognised for their ability to apply their knowledge and make an immediate impact.

ACI Global

ACI Global Pty Ltd is a joint venture with International Management and Technology Ltd as well as Digital Learning Systems Ltd. A key aspect of the business is in the provision of “smart” e learning for Quality, Environment, Occupational Health and Safety, Food Safety to ISO 22000 for RABQSA International requirements. Consultancy and Technical advice is also available for a wide range of industries worldwide. ACI means Accelerating Continuous Improvement!

Mavim

With Mavim's software (www.mavim.co.nz), all critical business processes, rules and changes can be simply and easily defined, maintained and communicated in a clear and consistent manner. Mavim is a simple tool that translates all the information into an intranet so that all employees can have access and updating is easy.

Mavim is a Dutch and international software organisation with more than 800 customers in all kinds of segments: government, healthcare, commercial and non-profit.

CEANET

Established in 1969, Ceanet has today become the leading Australian distributor of the world renowned Minitab.mathematical, engineering and quality improvement software. Ceanet’s product range includes MINITAB and Quality Companion 2, both leading statistical packages for Six Sigma and other quality improvement projects.

Designed to maximize the benefits of Six Sigma projects, Minitab’s new Quality Companion 2 supports suppliers across a wide range of national and multinational organisations in banking and finance, manufacturing, mining, automotive and transport industries.

MINITAB has a powerful collection of methods with an easy-to-use interface that enable companies to improve processes, reduce costs and add measurable value to their products and services. Extensively integrated into major projects in over 80 countries, organizations understand the significant benefits and cost savings of Minitab advanced software applications.

Landscape IT

Landscape Information Technology Pty Ltd is an Australian Independent Software Vendor based in Brisbane, Queensland Australia. The company specializes in the development of Windows software packages designed to meet the needs of the corporate sector for their intra-organizational process and systems organization and management.

Their flagship application is the Procedure Manager – a full packaged software application for commercial release to the 20-200 employee corporate market In March 2007. The Procedure Manager is a corporate procedural management tool developed to assist both Managers and Quality officers with the investigation, recording and utilization of corporate procedures and related activity flows. The application encompasses graphical process mapping interfaces as well as data reporting tools and configuration management in two distinct areas – Management Constructor versions and General Staff Viewer versions.

Benchmarking Partnerships

Benchmarking Partnerships is benchmarking firm based in Australia with global reach. We partner people in different organisations and different industries so that through shared learning and partnership networking they can rapidly improve. Our networks include over 5,000 people across Australia, Asia, NZ and also extend into other continents internationally. We do this by facilitating think tanks, sharing of best practices and ideas leadership through networking and benchmarking to help organizations to accelerate improvement. Bruce Searles and Anton Benc are the founders and front line managing partners of all projects with all customers delivering a boutique customer outcome focused service.

Business Capability Partnership

Our long term vision is that New Zealand business, management and leadership capability are equal to or leads international best practice. Our broad mission is: to increase understanding of and demand for high quality services aimed at raising capability in the business sector; and to ensure there is sufficient supply of appropriate and accessible capability building services to meet the dynamic needs of all New Zealand businesses.

The Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA)

The Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA) is a not for profit organisation and is the leading professional body for the advancement of quality practices and business improvement in the UK.  IQA represents Quality Experts and Business Improvement professionals in all industry sectors.  IQA aims to ensure that those involved with business improvement have access to training, education and events to support and promote the use of quality techniques for the benefit of industry.  Quality is everybody's business and it is people with the appropriate knowledge, skills and energies that really make the difference and effect change within their organisations.