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The European Productivity Conference EPC 2007 and 10 National Productivity Forum

European Productivity Conference EPC 2007 & the 10th National Productivity Forum

Science converts money into knowledge. Innovation converts knowledge into money. The long-term success of an enterprise is based on its global scale competitiveness. National productivity centres, joined together in the European Association of National Productivity Centres consider productivity as a key factor influencing competitiveness of European enterprises. That is one of the reasons, why they organize the EUROPEAN PRODUCTIVITY CONFERENCE, where industrialists, researchers as well as politicians consider EU productivity. The 2007 conference is being organized by the Slovak Productivity Center and takes place in the Slovak Republic. The link between competitiveness and productivity lies in a society, which does not only utilize knowledge, but creates some. Knowledge cannot be effectively created without dynamic innovation processes. That’s why this year’s conference is divided into four major topics; which are strongly connected to each other. Presentations are to be complemented by the opening round-table discussion, where politicians and representatives of scientific and enterprise spheres will consider political and economical aspects of EU competitiveness. The politicians and conference representatives will to sum up the competitive trends in relation to productivity at the final round-table. The four workshops will provide a practical introduction into methods that facilitate substantial productivity increase in enterprises. The conference is aimed at top managers, entrepreneurs, technicians and economists and at those who are engaged in research, university or public sphere. Guarantees Peter Rehnström EANPC president

Milan Gregor SLCP board of directors chairman

Organized by European Association of National Productivity Centres

Slovak Productivity Center

Co-organizers University of Zilina

Ministry of Economy of SR

Technical University of Kosice

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Conference Programme 8:00 - 12:00 12:00 - 14:00

Tuesday, 23rd October 2007

Registration Opening ceremony, Opening round-table

Moderator:

Peter Magvasi (University of Zilina, SR)

Participant:s

Robert Fico (Slovak Prime Minister), Vladimir Spidla (EU Commissar), Duncan Campbell (ILO Geneva), Peter Rehnström (EANPC Brussels), Stefan Luby (SAV, SR), Kyu-Dam-Cho (Samsung Slovakia), Jaroslav Holecek (ZPZ SR), Milan Gregor (SLCP, SR)

14:30 - 17:30

Work in the parallel sessions

Session – Competitiveness of EU

Session chairman: Juraj Sinay

Juraj Sinay, Technical University of Kosice, SR: A New paradigm of EU. Alexander Hofmann, WKO, Austria: Competitiveness of EU. Anna Kaderabkova, VSEM Centre of Economic Studies Prague, Czech Republic: Competitiveness of Visegrad countries. Jozef Matuszek, Akademia Techniczno - Humanistyczna Bielsko-Biala, Poland: Improvement of Enterprise Competitiveness by development of trans – border cooperation. Milan Sikula, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SR: Competitiveness of the Slovak Republic. Peter Magvasi, University of Zilina, SR: Competitive Human resources in the EU. Jan Lesinsky, Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, SR: Effective cooperation in the EU for increasing competitiveness of automotive industry. Session – Knowledge – based economy

Session chairman – Jan Trunecek

Jan Trunecek, The University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic: Knowledge enterprise in the knowledge society - The reality of 21st. century or fiction? Christos Tokamanis, European Commission Brussels, Belgium: EU Competitiveness - Building the Europe of knowledge. Ludmila Mladkova, The University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic: Learning organization and knowledge management. Rudiger J. Schulz, Slovak Telekom, Bratislava, SR: Next generation network. Karol Polak, College in Sladkovicovo, SR: Knowledge Economy and new technologies. Rudolf Pozgay, Slovak Association for Knowledge Society, Bratislava, SR: The Audit of Knowledge management as a starting point for Implementation of Knowledge Management in an Enterprise Jaroslava Kubatova, The University of Palacky, Olomouc, Czech Republic: Relationship between Communication Efficiency and Company Financial Effect. Valent Gura, Hewlett-Packard Slovakia, Bratislava, SR: Infrastructure of Knowledge Economy – Slovak calls. Session Productivity

Session chairman: John Heap

John Heap, National Productivity Center United Kingdom: Innovation and enterprise: The Foundations of Developing Productivity. Peter Rehnström, EANPC, Brussels, Belgium: Productivity – an issue for everyone. Radoslaw Owczarzak, European Monitoring Center of Change Ireland: Links between innovation, productivity and employment.

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Conference venue Holiday Inn Hotel and Congress Centre Sportova 2, Zilina, Slovak Republic Conference date 23rd – 25th October 2007 (Tuesday – Thursday) Participant Registration daily, from 8 am to 6 pm. Accommodation Accommodation is not included in the registration fee. Each participant should book his/her accommodation individually. Information about accommodation is available on the web site www.epc2007.sk. Board The registration fee includes coffee breaks, lunch, and reception, which are served at the conference venue. Languages The official languages of the conference will be Slovak, English, Czech, Russian. Presentations will be interpreted simultaneously. Accompanying activities European Productivity Conference and 10th National Productivity Forum will be accompanied by workshops, discussion meetings, round tables, press conference, book offers, illustration of education programmes, and Productivity Development Programmes. If you have any questions about payment, registration and organization, please contact conference secretariat. Katarina Blaskova Slovak Productivity Center Univerzitna 1 010 08 Zilina Slovak Republic

tel.: +421-41-513 5074 fax: +421-41-513 5059 mobil: +421-910-597 490 e-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

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Milan Gregor, Slovak Productivity Center, Zilina, SR: Productivity Improvement in the Slovak Republic. Jaroslav Holeček, Volkswagen Slovakia, Bratislava, SR: Centers for development of labour force skills - remuneration and motivation of employees. Petr Sehnal, Continental Matador, Puchov, SR: How to succeed in the global environment. Stefan Rosina, Matador, Puchov, SR: The Dynamic automotive industry development on the Slovak Republic.

19:00 - 20:00

The National Productivity Awards

Award for the benefit of Productivity Improvement in the Slovak Republic 1998-2006. The Declaration of National Productivity Award 2007 in the Slovak Republic.

20:00 - 21:00

Welcome Reception

Conference Programme 9:00 - 17:30

Wednesday 24th October 2007

Work in the parallel sessions

Session Productivity

Session chairman: John Heap

Heikki Sirelius, JTO School of management, Finland: ProPaja practical productivity development programme. Nurettin Peskircioglu, Turkish National Productivity Center, Turkey: MPM´s Productivity improvement approach in provinces. Pavol Strycek, Management Systems, Bratislava, SR: Performance improvement: Leading organiztions into process and client orientation. Jaroslav Seifert, Jaseka, Prague, Czech Republic: Emotion, sharing, knowledge, streaming as a new soft productivity improvement elements. Wolfgang Schroeter, RKW Competence Centre, Germany: Prospects for the German production model. Mike Dillon, Grimsby Institute, United Kingdom: Green logistics: Increasing company productivity by “ greening “ the Supply chain. Stefan Chudoba, Carisch, Bratislava, SR: Experiences in building the West Slovak Automotive Cluster. Viorel Buruiana, Romanian Quality Center, Romania: Human Capacity Development – key factor for productivity. Páivi Rauramo, Center for Occupational Safety, Finland: The stairs of well – being at work. Alasoini Tuomo, Finish Ministry of Labour, Finland: High – Involvement innovation practices at Finnish workplaces.. Lucia Ditetova, Trexima, Bratislava, SR: The classification of work activities and labour cost for years 2007 – 2013. Patrik Gots, Molex Slovakia, Kechnec, SR: 5S facilitator – path to success. Richard Matkovic, Faurecia Slovakia, Lozorno, SR : Faurecia Excellence System in management of logistic process. Jaroslav Nenadal, VSB Ostrava, Czech Republic: Process performance measurement in manufacturing organization. Eduard Horbal, Whirlpool Slovakia, Poprad, SR: The beginnings of the lean manufacturing implementation in the Whirlpool Slovakia.

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Conference structure Opening Round-Table Statement of the conference objectives How to work in the sessions

Conducting effective meetings

Autonomous maintenance

Progressive technologies for product development Digital factory

Productivity

Innovations

Knowledge – based economy

Competitiveness of EU

Conceptions, new methods

Is your profit sleeping? Wake up it!

Workshops

Parallel sessions

Practical implementation

Final Round-Table Evaluation of fulfilment of conference objectives Formulation of conclusions

Productivity Declaration

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Anna Hudáková, Slovak Telekom, Bratislava, SR: The objective of the successful transformation has to be superior services for customers. Boris Pšenčík, Trilogiq Slovakia, Martin, SR: Practical examples of using Lean Tek System oriented towards Productivity Improvement. Miroslav Petrek, IBM Slovensko, Bratislava, SR: Productive environment of the future with support of web 2.0 technologies. Session – Innovation

Session chairman: Jan Strelecky

Jan Strelecky, BIC Group, Bratislava, SR: Industrial Innovations. Karel Klusacek, Technological Center AV, Czech Republic: Research Priorities and EU Structural Funds in the Czech Republic. Dusan Jurik, The Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic: Innovation strategies of the Slovak Republic for years 2007 – 2013. Stefan Vratny, BIC Bratislava, SR: Support of BIC Bratislava in the process of clustering Slovak companies. Risto Kuivanen, Techchnical Research Centre of Finland, Finland: Future of the production companies. Markus Baur, Skoda auto, Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic: Digital factory. Marco Sacco, Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation National Research Council of Italy: Digital factory for human oriented production systems. Andrej Stefanik, Slovak Productivity Center, Zilina, SR: Creation of Digital Factory concept with support of 3D scanning objects in large scale. Stefan Medvecky, UKaI, Zilina, SR: Technological platforms – development of innovations. Edward Chlebus, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland: From Rapid Prototyping to Rapid Manufacturing. Martin Kovacik, Central European Institute of Technology, Žilina, SR: Bionics – Innovative trend of the future. Clemens Lowinski, Johnson Controls, Trenčín,SR: Components Innovation and its Impact on Automotive Innovation Process. Peter Frank, Productivity Innovation, London, United Kingdom: The process of developing a new product. Frank Pot, TNO, Netherlands: Social Innovation, the new challenge. Vladimír Cop, Spinea, Presov, SR: Innovation – the resource of development company potential. Bronislav Panek, Deloitte & Touche, Bratislava, SR: Venture capital. Ladislav Vaskovic, SOPK, Bratislava, SR: The Opportunities of using venture capital in the Slovak Republic. Igor Lichnovsky, Eximbanka SR, Bratislava, SR: The sources for innovation development. Mario Finka, IBM Slovensko, s.r.o., Bratislava, SR: Innovations – Component Business Model.

9:00 - 17:30

The work in parallel workshops

Workshop 1:

Progressive technologies for product development. Digital Factory. Venue of workshop: CEIT - Central European Institute of Technology, Zilina Lectors: Martin Kovacik, Andrej Stefanik Maximal number of participants: 20

Workshop 2:

Is your profit sleeping? Wake up it! Venue of workshop: Kia Motors Slovakia, Teplicka nad Vahom Lector: Miloš Bugan Maximal number of participants: 20

European Productivity Conference EPC 2007 & the 10th National Productivity Forum

Registration The deadline for registration is 17th October 2007. It is possible to register via this registration form or at www.epc2007.sk. Please send the filled registration form by post, fax or e-mail until 17th October 2007 to following addresses: Slovak Productivity Center Univerzitna 1 010 08 Zilina Slovak Republic Fax number: +421-41-513 5059 E-mail address: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Received registrations will be confirmed only at request. No refund in case of absence. You could however send a substitute. The map – conference venue

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Workshop 3:

Autonomous Maintenance Venue of workshop: KINEX KLF, Kysucke Nove Mesto Lector: Jozef Sedlak Maximal number of participants: 20

Workshop 4:

Conducting effective meetings. Venue of workshop: UKaI - University of Zilina Lector: Tomas Liska Maximal number of participants: 30

20:00 - 22:00

Dinner

Conference Programme 9:00 - 10:30

Thursday 25th October 2007

Work in the parallel sessions

Session – Knowledge – based economy

Session chairman – Jan Trunecek

Pavla Bruskova, Regional Development Agency, Ostrava, Czech Republic: Clusters and their growth of performance and company competitiveness. Jozef Kelemen, University of management, Bratislava, SR: Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence. Juraj Sinay, Technical University of Košice, SR: Quality of Slovak universities – The condition of formation, keeping and spread of knowledge. Anna Diacikova, Chemosvit, Svit, SR: View of the real possibilities of knowledge management into company practice. Session Productivity

Session chairman: John Heap

Petr Jaluvka, Dynamic Future, Ostrava, Czech Republic: Simulation utilized to Productivity Improvement in the company TI Automotive AC. Vladimir Surka, Oracle, Bratislava, SR: The selection of company information system. Milan Mraz, ABE-AISAN BITRON CZECH, Czech Republic: Experiences in implementation of Japanese methods. Session – Innovation

Session chairman: Jan Strelecky

Milos Kraus, Sauer-Danfos, Povazska Bystrica, SR: – Innovation processes in individualization of mass production. Stefan Blasko, PSL, Povazska Bystrica, SR: Innovation Technologies in Bearings Productivity. Vladimir Lukac, ETOP Trading, Puchov, SR: Impact of EURO currency on Innovation. Milan Dado, University of Zilina, SR: Information and communication technology services as a catalyst of economic development and prosperity. Lucia Bohunicka, Slovenske elektrarne, Bratislava, SR: Productivity and human resources.

11:00 - 13:00 Moderátor: Participants:

Final round-table

Peter Magvasi (University of Zilina, SR) Manuel Pinho (Ministry of Economy and Innovation of Portugal), Lubomir Jahnatek (Minster of Economy of Slovak Republic), Juraj Sinay (TU Kosice, SR), Jan Trunecek (VSE Prague, Czech Republic), John Heap (NPC United Kingdom), Jan Strelecky (BIC Group, Bratislava)

13:00

Productivity Declaration