Speakers:

Sean Patrick McCrary, CPIM       -Planning and Scheduling Manager

Jim Helmer                                   -Manufacturing Site Lead

Erich Homberg                            -Continuous Improvement Manager

What You’ll Learn

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of $17 billion and more than 50,000 employees in 50 countries. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity. Through our premier brands – Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services – we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive support.        

The Carlsbad campus is the corporate headquarters of the Life Sciences Group (LSG) and also one of the largest manufacturing sites in the global supply chain. After an introduction from the manufacturing site lead who will give you a high level overview of the plant you will be cycled through three separate tours:

Manufacturing at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Carlsbad, the products and processes - Jim Helmer

Continuous improvement in a biotech setting - Erich Homberg

Driving supply chain efficiencies through planning and scheduling - Sean Patrick McCrary, CPIM