Recently Efficiency Works exhibited at the 2008 Queensland Manufacturing Technology Exhibition (QMan) held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre from October 21-23.  During the exhibition we met many new people interested in Lean Manufacturing and refreshed some existing acquaintances.  During the exhibition many visitors listened to a range of interesting speakers.

The keynote speaker was Andrew Smith from the University of Ballarat who presented the findings from a research project completed for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). The research project is called “To have and to hold: Retaining and utilising skilled people” and covers the issues companies should be focusing on in order to attract and retain good staff.  The findings highlighted the importance of creating the right learning environment and in particular the need to provide nationally recognised training similar to the Lean Manufacturing training available through Efficiency Works.

The full report can be found at www.ncver.edu.au/research/proj/nr06004.pdf