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Toyota’s Virtual Plant Tour & Digital Engineering Tools
MANUFACTURING, MANUFACTURING, VIDEO

Toyota’s Virtual Plant Tour & Digital Engineering Tools

Trever is an Executive in Toyota’s North America Production Engineering Division responsible for Digital Systems. This includes Engineering Systems supporting Factory Digital Twin, Regional Manufacturing Business Systems Product Owner, Production Engineering Process Kaizen App Development, and Operational Technologies supporting Industry 4.0. During this interactive presentation, audience members can get a behind the scenes look at Toyota’s North American Production Plants. Trever will lead an interactive plant tour via a VR Headset and engaging audience members as they watch the 360-degree process live on screen.

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Achieving a Sustainable Electric Future
Sustainability, SUSTAINABILITY, VIDEO

Achieving a Sustainable Electric Future

Mr. Kevin Butt is the Senior Director of Environmental Sustainability for Toyota’s North American Environmental Sustainability Programs.  He is responsible for the development of Environmental Sustainability Programs and related Regulatory/Legislative development for all of Toyota’s North American operations. He is responsible for Body Engineering for all Toyota’s North American manufacturing operations.  Body Engineering consists of Welding, Stamping, and Painting Operations.

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How Toyota North America Looks After Employees’ Mental Health to Evolve the Workplace for Future Mobility
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How Toyota North America Looks After Employees’ Mental Health to Evolve the Workplace for Future Mobility

Kim Cockrell is chief human resources officer for Toyota Motor North America (TMNA), responsible for TMNA’s human resources (HR) function. In this role, she is responsible for the setting the vision and strategic direction of human capital across the North American Region. Her organization delivers solutions to enhance team member engagement for areas including Compensation, Benefits, Talent Development, Talent Acquisition, Strategy & Workforce Planning, HR Technology & Analytics, HR Communications, and Labor Relations.

Prior to Ms. Cockrell’s current position, she served as vice president of Human Resources, Toyota Motor North America.

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Marvin Cooke of Toyota Europe — An In-Depth Conversation on Toyota’s Transformation, Carbon Neutrality, Workforce Trends, and Leadership
PODCAST, SUPPLY CHAIN — EUROPE

Marvin Cooke of Toyota Europe — An In-Depth Conversation on Toyota’s Transformation, Carbon Neutrality, Workforce Trends, and Leadership

Marvin Cooke is the EVP – Manufacturing for Toyota Motor Europe.

Based in Brussels, Marvin oversees all of Toyota’s European Manufacturing Companies, Production Engineering, Logistics, the Toyota Production System and the Production Control functions.

Marvin joined Toyota Manufacturing in the UK as a Manufacturing Engineer in 1991 and has held numerous management posts of increasing seniority throughout Europe. Today Mavin is leading Toyota’s European Manufacturing team along the journey from being an Automobile Company to becoming a Mobility Company.

He will also be a member of the speaker faculty of the European Supply Chain Executive Summit next week in Barcelona speaking about, “A Lean Approach to Carbon Neutrality,” but first we get to ask him a few questions on the bluEPrint.

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Fireside Chat: Driving Transformation at Toyota with a Focus on People, Process and Partnerships
MANUFACTURING, MANUFACTURING, VIDEO

Fireside Chat: Driving Transformation at Toyota with a Focus on People, Process and Partnerships

Natalie Wilkinson is the Vice President Manufacturing Production Innovation Center (MPIC) and dual capped as General Manager of Strategic Business Management and Production Support Center for Toyota North America. 

Watch her session to gain insight into how the automaker empowers its people to think creatively to make significant improvements.

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The Importance of Leadership in Manufacturing
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The Importance of Leadership in Manufacturing

Illustrating the importance of leaders during crises and rapidly evolving circumstances. What have we learned in the last two years? Offering new ideas and best practices to do reviews remotely and win buy-in from a distributed workforce How has workforce culture evolved, and what initiatives are we moving forward with to shape and influence the culture we need for the future? What should other organizations leadership take away from our experience? — Brian Krinock SVP, Vehicle Manufacturing & Production Engineering Toyota Brian Krinock is a senior vice-president at Toyota Motor North America. He oversees the manufacturing operations of eight vehicle…

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How People are Innovating and Bringing Production to Life and Producing Happiness for All
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How People are Innovating and Bringing Production to Life and Producing Happiness for All

Toyota’s commitment to train, develop and empower team members to transform our future : Toyota Production System basics and real practical application Talent development at every role (TM/TL/GLs, Maintenance, Engineering, & Leadership) Leveraging talent – Innovations to streamline operations Introduction to Toyota’s newest plant – TMMGT — Brian Krinock SVP, Vehicle Manufacturing & Production Engineering Toyota Brian Krinock is senior vice president, Vehicle Plants, for Toyota Motor North America (TMNA). TMNA supports Toyota’s engineering and manufacturing operations in North America. In his current role, Krinock is responsible for Toyota’s seven vehicle assembly plants. Prior to his current role, Krinock served for five…

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