Lean Business Ireland Conference Exhibitors 2025
Advanced Technical Concepts (ATC Group)
ATC Group is an award-winning engineering and modular solutions provider based in Shannon, Ireland, and recognised by Lean Business Ireland as Small Lean Business of the Year 2024. We help our clients optimize their processes using our modular build solutions, whether it be assembly line configurations, production logistics, material handling solutions or ergonomic workstation designs. ATC's R&D-engineered solutions are customized to address each client's unique production challenges. Examples include improving material flow, increasing efficiency, optimizing space, reducing waste, or delivering ergonomic improvements.
ATC is ISO 9001 accredited and has been serving clients in a wide range of industries but particularly in the medical devices and life sciences space for over 30 years.
Committed to continuous improvement, ATC is open to visits to share its learnings of implementing a strong and vibrant continuous improvement culture.
For more information see https://www.atcgroup.ie or our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@ATCGroupIreland
ATC Automation
ATC Automation specify, supply and support WeASSIST from German manufacturer Werma. WeASSIST is an innovative wireless plug and play solution for comprehensive and continuous monitoring of your production and logistics processes. It's cloud-based, easy to install, quick to retrofit and highly scalable which make the WERMA WeASSIST the ideal solution for all enterprises that want to ensure full transparency in their entire value chain.
All relevant data is clearly displayed regardless of the source (manufacturer, type and age of machines or manual workstations). Unlike complex MDC/MES systems or IoT solutions, WeASSIST makes all potential optimisations easily visible and evaluable in real time and from anywhere.
Atlantic Technological University
ATU are Ireland’s largest provider of online accredited Lean Six Sigma & Operational Excellence (OpEx) programmes. Over 25,000 learners from 50 countries have enrolled on our training courses. We work with leading employers in the manufacturing & services sector to provide a complete Learning Journey for their employees in business excellence from White Belt to Black Belt level. Please drop by our stand for further information on our free White Belt and 80% funded Yellow, Green and Black Belt courses which commence in September 2024.
Blocworx
Blocworx is a no-code software that facilitates enterprise-level digitalisation & Operational Efficiencies. The Blocworx Platform allows companies / organisations to deliver Software solutions without needing to code.
Build entire workflows, track processes, implement rules, checks and user criteria, and use all your data to analyse your performance, productivity, and create automated reports / Dashboards.
Our customers have built products such as Manufacturing Execution Systems - MES, CRMs, Quality Management Systems - QMS, Warehouse Management Systems - WMS, HR Systems and hundreds of Tracking Modules for everything from ESD logs to Asset Tracking to GDPR Compliance to Health & Safety / Risk Assessments.
We have developed a network of No Code Builders / Citizen Developers, Subject Experts and API / Integration Developers. For more information, please visit https://www.blocworx.com/
Crystal Lean Solutions
Crystal Lean Solutions (CLS) was founded by Maria Ryan in early 2008. We believe that people are the critical success factor to compete in any business sector and our team is what makes us successful.
Our aim is to develop peoples’ capability in Lean Thinking to systematically deliver results by making your job easier.
Our team is rich in experience in all aspects of the Lean journey with careers spanning up to 30 years in Operations Management. We support organisations in construction, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, engineering, medial device and services sectors. We offer a diverse range of services including Lean Coaching, Lean Training, Lean Resources, Strategic Development, Data Driven Decision Making, Funding Support/Advice and Change Management.
We bring a unique energy to support you with this change programme, in a flexible, patient and professional manner.
Dataworks
For over 29 years Dataworks have helped leading Life Science companies to deliver better outcomes through the Optimisation, Automation and Digitisation of their Processes. We apply our deep understanding of your sector, our Lean and OpEx experience to deliver truly transformational solutions to your business. We work collaboratively across all functions and levels of your business to develop the optimum solution with you. We strive to ensure that the social and technical aspect of your workplace operate in harmony, empowering your teams to work more effectively, make more informed decisions and enabling them to deliver their true value to your organisation.
Contact us any time if you would like to discuss how we can use our experience and expertise to deliver real benefits to your business.
Address: Dataworks Ltd Unit 4i, Six Cross Roads Business Park Waterford.
Tel: +353 (0)51 878 555
Website: www.dataworks.ie
Engineering Industries Ireland
As Ireland’s engineering business representative group and one of Ibec’s newest Trade Association launched in November 2021, Engineering Industries Ireland represents over 150 industrial engineering manufacturing and services companies in Ireland.
The engineering sectors we represent have exports at €8.8 billion or 3.6% of national exports, 10,800 enterprises employing 50,751 people and 65% indigenous companies. Our members are involved in industrial automation, precision engineering, agriculture machinery, material handling, packaging, energy and environment, process engineering, automotive, metal fabrication & processing, renewables and engineering services.
We represent engineering businesses, both homegrown and multinationals, big and small, to advocate for a supportive business environment, as well as provide expert employer relations, industry insight and incomparable networking opportunities for our members.
Enterprise Ireland
Enterprise Ireland supports Irish companies at every stage of their journey, to develop, grow and scale, and to achieve their global ambition.
Helping your business grow through digital innovation and operational excellence.
Competitiveness is about redesigning your business to serve your customers more effectively. Innovative digital technologies like AI and real-time data, along with operational excellence initiatives like lean practices, enable businesses to enhance productivity, streamline operations and deliver excellent customer experiences. Discover how Enterprise Ireland can help you on your journey to becoming more competitive with a range of supports.
GembaDocs
Does your organisation run perfectly smoothly with great processes? If the answer to that question is no, then you need GembaDocs!
GembaDocs makes creating, editing and deploying digital work instructions easy.
It’s so easy to use that teams can create the work instructions where it matters, on the Gemba, as a team in minutes. Anyone can do it.
Just simply take a photo or short video of each process step with a short description, repeat as often as you need until you’re done!
The work instructions can be printed, viewed step by step in the app, displayed from url’s within ERP software or accessed via QR codes on Works documentation.
The software is so easy to use that everyone can be involved, meaning deployment can be done in weeks, not months. No consultants required.
Now with a digital skills matrix module for managing your teams training levels for each critical task, building engagement and enabling you to proactively build a multi-skilled team, there is no better manufacturing SOP software out there and we’re Irish!
We have customers in over 30 countries, ranging from SME’s to listed companies. There is a pricing option to suit every organisation.
Gift Innovations
Gift Innovations delivers creative gifting solutions to help recognise and reward employees and build strong customer loyalty. We work hard to find the best solution for our clients. Our extensive range of gifts includes premium brands, promotional products, corporate gifts, and awards. We offer brands like Samsonite and Garmin, branded notebooks and laptop backpacks, swag boxes, and award presentation pieces.
RewardNet®, our customisable rewards portal is a fully managed solution that takes the stress out of picking individual gifts for your employees. From celebrating career milestones to thanking employees for going the extra mile, RewardNet offers a wide choice of tangible gifts from premium Irish & International brands, that your employees will cherish and appreciate for years to come.
Promotional products are widely used in marketing strategies to improve brand recognition and increase brand loyalty. We bring creative solutions and quality merchandise that promote employee engagement, build strong customer loyalty, and elevate brands.
We bring lean values to our clients, suppliers, and employees. Contact us for a consultation to learn more.
ICBE Advanced Productivity Skillnet
The Irish Centre for Business Excellence - (ICBE)
Helping Businesses Be the Best They Can Be
Exploring new and better ways of working that will bring improvements in the shortest time.
Learning how a challenge that has kept you awake at night has been solved by others.
And knowing that you’re building a strong company not just for yourself, but as part of your commitment to Ireland’s competitive future.
The key to it all is SHARING. A coming together for the good of not just one, but for all. At the Irish Centre of Business Excellence, our Members know that power is gained by sharing knowledge, not holding on to it. Because knowledge only reaches its true potential when we pass it on – and watch it multiply. Without a doubt, some of the most successful companies in the world are those who share, collaborate and practice free exchange of ideas.
This ‘willingness to work together’ is in the DNA of the ICBE, and has seen us help set, support and share best business practice, skills and knowledge for all our Members within the manufacturing and service industries.
Through events, customised funded training, Benchmarking Visits to exemplary companies and our unique Call for Support process we facilitate continuous improvement, spread innovations and collectively solve problems for the good of all.
ICBE Advanced Productivity Skillnet
This comprehensive Skillnet is committed to promoting innovation and productivity though industry-led training for the manufacturing and service sectors in Ireland. Advanced methodologies and technology are key focus areas.
Focusing initially on Lean, Six Sigma and Shingo, this Skillnet has expanded to include key technologies and methodologies from automation to data analytics and additive manufacturing.
IDA Ireland
IDA Ireland is Ireland’s Inward Investment Promotion Agency. The Agency partners with overseas companies to secure new investment in Ireland and collaborates with companies to expand their existing footprint in Ireland. IDA Ireland works with a portfolio of 1,800+ overseas companies operating in Ireland across a myriad of industry sectors from Technology and Life Sciences to International Services and Financial Services.
Today, 9 of the top 10 Pharmaceutical companies, 14 of the top 15 Medical Technology companies, 9 of the top 10 Industrial Automation companies and 7 of the top 10 Global Software companies have established operations in Ireland.
With over 70 years experience in partnering with corporations and start-ups to internationalise and scale, IDA Ireland has gained a unique perspective on what it takes to succeed – come and speak to us during the Lean Business Ireland conference so that we can discuss in more detail how we can support you as you continue to grow and innovate your operations in Ireland.
Jigsaw Better Business
Jigsaw Better Business are an award-winning team of Operational Excellence coaches delivering Enterprise Ireland, IDA and Local Enterprise Office programmes and support. Jigsaw Better Business help business leaders to step back and look at what they do each day with fresh eyes. With a highly-skilled team across 4 pillars - Operations, Digital, Sustainability and People Development, we recognise helping people is at the heart of every project. It is people who carry out the daily business operations, manage the business, and have a vision for its future.
When companies work with Jigsaw Better Business, it means having an experienced coach & mentor stand alongside you, asking insightful questions. We have worked with hundreds of businesses across Ireland and no matter what kind of business you have, after working with us you will make improvements in how you operate. Every project we have worked on has resulted in cost savings or increased capacity and usually both together.
Put simply, through creative problem solving, people development, and process innovation, we help great businesses like yours BE BETTER.
Kyzentree
At Kyzentree, we help manufacturing companies to track and improve the performance of their manufacturing floor in real-time. Our platform combines sensor data with live operator feedback to give a precise understanding of how effectively any type of operator-driven process is performing.
The hourly management dashboards give frontline support teams a consistent way to address issues on a day-to-day basis. The daily dashboards give a snapshot of shift performance for more collaborate tier meetings. The trend dashboards provide engineers with insights to drive step improvements in performance over time.
The software is backed up by a highly experienced lean-sigma team who provide onsite coaching to ensure every client gets the maximum value from the platform.
LBSPartners
Founded in 2002, LBSPartners is a business consultancy firm that provides leadership and operational excellence training that specialises in the areas of digitalisation, business excellence & strategic direction. We are guided by the LBS business transformation framework, enabling our clients to become better businesses.
We work closely with our clients to help them transform into the streamlined efficient operation they aspire to be. Together we do this by guiding our clients in developing skills and techniques to become more efficient, productive, and cost-effective to fulfil the value proposition they offer to their customers.
We have extensive Digital, Operational Excellence, and Leadership experience in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Irish-owned, indigenous companies across a number of sectors, including manufacturing, engineering, financial services, public sector, and medical devices.
The Leading Edge Group
Leading Edge Group is an international management consulting company that offers training, coaching, and consulting support to companies across multiple verticals including the life science, food & drink, general manufacturing, services and public sector, as well as many other sectors. The company adopts Lean, Six Sigma, and change management principles and philosophies to deliver improvement and change management solutions for organisations from its locations in Ireland, Canada, and Australia. They are experts in Digital Consultancy and architects of the “OneView” solution which analyses a process, product, or service from a climate change, operational excellence, and digital perspective to deliver an integrated improvement roadmap to meet business, environmental and digital goals.
They have been involved in some of the largest change transformation programs ever delivered in Ireland as well as supporting multiple transformations across the technology, food and manufacturing sectors. They also offer a large suite of e-learning, online learning and face-to-face accredited training programs in continuous improvement and soft skills, with over 10,000 qualified students.
LeanTeams
Unlock Your competitive edge with LeanTeams
Introduction:
Are you ready to elevate your organisation's performance and achieve extraordinary results?
LeanPractitioner Program:
Our renowned LeanPractitioner program, in operation since 2009, has successfully completed over 600 projects. Participants have the opportunity to earn the nationally recognised QQI Level 5 certification.
Expert Coaching:
Our coaches will mentor your staff through process improvement projects. Individual projects have yielded an impressive annual return of €50,000, all with an investment of less than €2000 per person. On average, projects deliver an outstanding return of €15,000 in hard savings.
Ideal Partner for Forward-Thinking Organisations:
Choose LeanTeams as your strategic partner if your organisation:
• Sees practical process improvement as integral to its operations.
• Values the development and growth of its people.
• Prioritises individualised support to drive process excellence.
Engaging Workforce Transformation:
Through our interactive in-person or online business simulations, we immerse your entire workforce in Lean concepts, making learning practical and experiential
Macmarts
Macmarts is designed to empower and enable engineers to be more effective, efficient, and innovative in their work. This platform provides a suite of tools, resources, and features that help engineers streamline their workflows, automate repetitive tasks, collaborate effectively, and make informed decisions. The goal of Macmarts is to free up engineers from mundane and time-consuming activities, allowing them to focus on tasks that bring higher value to their projects and organizations.
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RIKON
RIKON is a hybrid centre of innovation in Business Technology Management situated on the South East Technological University (SETU) campus, in the heart of the South East of Ireland. Our BizTech strategists specialise in solving business problems and creating commercial opportunities through pioneering research advancements across business strategy, innovation, design, operational excellence and technology optimisation. RIKON think differently because we are a mix of business strategists, technologists and design thinkers who will create, incubate and deliver a future for your business that will produce extraordinary results and allow you to leapfrog your competition.
S A Partners
S A Partners is a global consulting and training company dedicated to helping people and organizations achieve true Enterprise Excellence. We partner closely with our clients to uncover their unique purpose, support their strategic goals, develop their teams, and enhance their processes—creating lasting, positive change. Our brand promise, Together, the Power to Improve, reflects our commitment to fostering environments where people can thrive and reach their full potential. We’re passionate about making a meaningful impact—not only for our clients but also for our team and the communities where we work. At S A Partners, we believe in empowering people to succeed together, every step of the way. We are an affiliate of the Shingo Institute and have been supporting organisations across Ireland since 1993.
Shannon Chamber Skillnet
Shannon Chamber Skillnet is co-funded by Skillnet Ireland and network companies to offer a suite of training programmes that address the skills deficits of enterprise
All training offered is in response to a ‘Training Needs Analysis’ (TNA) survey, issued annually to all member companies. This ensures that the courses we offer directly reflect the specific needs of companies while also equipping employees with the types of new and enhanced skills they may need to augment within their organisations.
If your company has a specific training requirement, we would be delighted to discuss how we can assist in meeting this need.
Check www.shannonchamberskillnet.com for all current training.
SOLAS
Skills to Advance is a national initiative in Further Education and Training aimed at developing the skills of people in employment.
The Further Education and Training sector is contributing to sustainable development by equipping learners with green skills that can drive future change and providing opportunities for companies to develop the skills needed to compete in a low carbon, resource efficient, and circular economy.
Responding to the critical challenges of climate change and low carbon economy issues, SOLAS, the Further Education & Training Authority in Ireland, has developed and is currently rolling out a new innovative model of short, flexible, relevant, accredited Micro-Qualifications which includes a green suite of sustainability programmes. Areas cover Environmental Sustainability, Lean Practice, Resource Efficiency, the Circular Economy, Eco Driving and Sustainable Supply Chain Procurement.
These programmes are created in partnership with ETBs, industry and key stakeholders such as Enterprise Ireland, IDA, EPA, SEAI, Regional Skills Fora and Uisce Eireann.
SQT Training
For 30 years, we’ve brought the latest thinking, the leading techniques and the most accomplished industry trainers into ambitious organisations, large and small, throughout Ireland, the UK and beyond. We empower people with the capability to help their organisations reach the highest standards, maintain compliance and drive efficiency. We are renowned for a dynamic, practical real world approach. A combination of theory and practice that works.
We believe, in the field, the best people to learn from are seasoned industry experts, not just academics. That’s why we so carefully hand- pick every single tutor. People who have worked at the coalface, who can draw on their experience and share real world insights, stories and techniques. Leaders to empower and inspire you.
Training is much more effective when it’s made relevant to your organisation and your particular needs. That’s why we make it our business to understand your business. With that understanding we can best advise on who needs what training, and tailor programmes to precisely address your unique needs.
Keeping Digital Simple.
Target Integration
Target Integration is a leading provider of digital transformation services with operations in more than 16 cities, helping businesses of all sizes discover their full potential. We know digital transformation can be a daunting prospect, that's why we believe in nurturing meaningful relationships, putting ourselves in our clients' shoes to understand the unique needs of their business and their customers, to discover how our solutions can bring out the very best in what they do.
People are at the heart of any great change, and digitally transforming a business is no different. We pride ourselves in outfitting our clients' teams with the expertise and skills they need to implement their own cloud-based software through a proprietary method of self-service digital adoption and implementation. This ensures that the skills and knowhow are inculcated in-house, and makes sure everybody, at every level of the business, has a chance to buy into the process.
