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16/06/2011
Total Flow are pleased to annouce the extension of their operating interests in China.
Following the doubling of revenues in mainland China during the first half of 2011 Total Flow have confirmed their intent to open a regional office in Shanghai during Q3 and recruit a country lead.
16/06/2011
Total Flow are very pleased to announce their sponsorship of IQPC's Lean Leaders III. The event will take place over two days at Canary Wharf, London, on July 5th and 6th 2011.
This years event focusses on Accelerating Lean strategies to enable critical cost-out and growth and enables senior business leaders to explore alternative methdos of driving their lean programmes to the next level.
18/08/2010
A pioneering £3 million project is now underway to design a supply chain solution to improve the
energy efficiency of the vast majority of the 26 million UK homes1 which will still be in use by 2050.
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), a public private partnership tasked with developing ‘massscale’
technologies that will help the UK meet its 2050 carbon reduction targets, is beginning a twoyear
project to identify ways in which the refurbishment and retrofitting of existing residential
01/07/2010
Today, Total Flow published its first thought leadership piece on the future of lean thinking in Global Pharmacy.
Chris Ellins, Managing Director of Total Flow, was approached by NGP Magazine to consider the future of Lean Thinking within the Pharma Industry under the title "Next Generation Lean." The article can be found on line at
13/06/2010
Total Flow today signed contracts with Danone Water China to support their journey toward operational excellence.
Starting with a single pilot in central, China Danone and Total Flow hope to be able to demonstrate a compelling case to deploy Danone's production system DaMaWay across all 14 Chinese plants.
23/04/2010
Chris Ellins, Total Flow's Managing Director, today began the search for a candidate to lead the expansion of the organisation into mainland China.
Total Flow's strategy is to grow its operations in China by supporting the regional expansion plans of European and American manufacturing organisations.
23/04/2010
Total Flow are thrilled to announce the awarding of its first ever contract in Africa.
Total Flow will support Shell to improve the performance of Finance, Production, Projects and Technology within its Nigerian oil field.
By embedding SOP's, visual management, 5S, flow and the management behaviours necessary to drive and sustain process improvement Total Flow and Shell hope to demonstrate the value of lean thinking in improving business performance.
If successful Total Flow expect Shell's Nigerian Leadership team to sponsor full scale deployment during 2010.
31/10/2009
Total Flow have been selected by AstraZeneca to support the application of lean thinking to EMEA distribution.
The project will focus on applying lean thinking across the EMEA network, exploring how value might be enhanced through the application of Right to Left thinking along an integrated end to end Pharamceutical supply chain and finally how a Process Centric Organisation (PCO) might better be able to manage the logistics challenges of the sector.
Events
16/06/2011
Total Flow are in early stage talks with IQPC to support and facilitate their Process Excellence event planned in China for October 2011.
Recognised by IQPC as a global and regional thought leader and practitioner in Lean and Sigma, Total Flow plan to showcase their work in China, and Asia Pacific, and share the cultural insights they have gained while supporting their clients create world class manufacturing facilities in mainland China, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
10/11/2009
Total Flow will launch its Professional Network on January 14th 2010 in Birmingham International Airport.
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