FenCon19 Program
*Subject to change without notice.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
| 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Pre-Event Mixer. Details TBD |
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
RBC Winnipeg Convention Centre
| Stream 1 Equipment & Processes |
Stream 2 Design & Culture |
Stream 3 Material |
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| 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Registration and Networking Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 am – 9:30 am | Opening Keynote: Glen Hodgson, International Economist | ||
| 9:30 am – 10:30 am | Operational Excellence
Speaker: Vern Campbell, Operational Excellence Expert
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ERP Implementation | Expert, Advanced Insights into True High Performance IG’s and Windows
Speakers: Robert Clarke, Robert Clarke Associates Stephen Selkowitz, Building Scientist |
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 am – 12:00 Noon | Efficiency Workshop: Equipment Investment |
Operating Window Hardware Workshop:
Speakers: Aaron Mundt, AmesburyTruth Stephan Nies, SIEGENIA |
Discover New Ways to Staff your Workforce
Speakers: Todd LeRoy, Loewen Cheryl Partridge, Opportunities for Employment |
| 12:00 Noon – 1:30 pm | Luncheon Keynote: Billy Ray Taylor, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company | ||
| 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Plant Handling Equipment Innovation Workshop on “Easier Flow” | Design Software for Fenestration – Designing/Testing for Performance | Cold Climate Installation for Performance and Durability
Speaker: Jon Eakes |
| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Continuous Improvement
Speaker: Brett Hiscock, LEAN Facilitator |
Implementing NAFS Program. Practical “how to” session | Workshop: FRP Door Panel Finishing – Paint, Stain and other Options. |
| 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Post-Event Mixer – Details TBD | ||
Thursday, March 7, 2019
RBC Winnipeg Convention Centre
| Meeting Room 1 | Meeting Room 2 | |
| 8:30 am – 11:30 am | Learn how to use “Toyota’s Kata System” to take Continuous Improvement to the next level and beyond.
Speaker: Warren Peters, LEAN Consultant |
CI for Management
Speaker: Brett Hiscock, LEAN Facilitator |
| 11:30 am | Bus trip to pre-selected tour site and lunch. | |
| 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Tour and presentation:
OmniGlass Pultrusion Facility Visit the OmniGlass Pultrusion Facility where thin wall pultrutions for windows was created and patented. OmniGlass pioneered the use of pultrusion technology to create complex window profiles and produced the industry leading Pultrusion Fiberglass Lineals that are still available today. This tour will include a complete pultrusion process from start to finish – glass rovings’ to finished parts, fiberglass fabrication equipment, localized fiberglass dust extraction units and grinding booth units, pultrusion tooling/dies (open and completely assembled dies) and fiberglass window and door corner cut away samples. |
Tour and presentation:
Building Envelope Technology Access Centre (BETAC), Red River College BETAC provides a multidisciplinary environment to facilitate advancements in building envelope technology primarily for durability and energy efficiency, while addressing the building’s intended use, life service and climate zone location. Download an overview of BETAC here. |
| 11:30 am | Optional bus ride back to Delta Hotel or directly to the airport. | |
