KIND Reliability & Learning Roadshow with Plant Tour

Join your local QAD Redzone community and see how our hosts, KIND, have reduced line change-over times, lowered their turnover, and increased their productivity by an additional 43% with Reliability and Learning!

During this event, you will take a private tour of the KIND plant, focused on the reliability and learning modules of QAD Redzone. You’ll also hear from their executive leadership and frontline team on how the company has transformed its shop floor, achieving:

  • Additional OEE Uplift and Productivity Increase 
  • Reduction in Average Hours Lost per Week 
  • Dozens of Plays Created 
  • Reduction in Turnover

Come network with industry peers in and around North Carolina as they share the challenges facing their organizations and how they are tackling them.

Speakers

David Willis, Director of Engineering, KIND
Zach Breeden, Director of Operations, KIND
Nichole Oster, Director of Quality, KIND
Sly Hicks, Bakery Manager, KIND
Ryan Nichols, Plant Manager, KIND

Who should attend

Owners, CEOs, VP Ops, Continuous Improvement Executives, and Human Resource Directors 

Location

4165 Mendenhall Oaks Parkway High Point, NC 27265

This is an executive-only event: Places are limited to 2 per company and subject to approval from the hosts.

Agenda

2:00pm-2:15pm

Introductions: Meet fellow Food, Beverage, CPG, and other industry manufacturers in your community

2:15pm-3:15pm

The KIND hosts will share their journey in transforming employee engagement and optimizing maintenance through QAD Redzone’s Reliability and Learning solutions

3:15pm-4:15pm

Plant Tour: Experience KIND’s operations and see QAD Redzone in action

4:15pm-5:00pm

Panel Discussion: Network with and hear from your peers on the challenges they’re facing today and how they’re addressing them

5:30pm

Cocktails and Food: Have a drink, unwind, and continue our great discussion

Experience a Redzone Community Event

Join Redzone for an exclusive plant tour and the opportunity to network with and learn from other Redzone Community members! Share tips and tricks and learn how to overcome challenges facing your industry. Don’t just take our word for it, check out this video from a recent Redzone Community Event.

QAD Redzone has been the catalyst in the transformation of our plant – creating a more productive, collaborative, and engaged workforce which ultimately results in the best product going out to stores.
Zach Breeded Director of Operations, KIND
Valentino Lascano
The reduction in turnover was amazing. We used to have an unfavorable turnover of nearly 80% and now that churn is gone.
Valentino Lascano Plant Manager, Soft Gel Technologies Inc.

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