Event Date: 20 March 2025
IPA Facilitator Name: Bronte Luff
Presenter Name: Richard Matthews
Company Name: Efficiency Works
Richard is a widely experienced Operations and General Manager with a well-developed Lean and Continuous Improvement toolkit and approaches gained from a solid track record of delivering business and process improvement across a variety of working environments and leadership roles.
Richard has worked in North America, Europe, and Australia, in a range of industries including Manufacturing, Automotive, Construction, Facilities, Maintenance, Aviation, Telecommunications, Local Government and Community.
Richard has been working with and leading both Lean Six Sigma improvement projects for over 25 years, starting with the Toyota Production System in the Automotive Industry and more recently as the General Manager of Efficiency Works, one of Australia’s leading Continuous Improvement organizations.
A passion for process optimization and waste reduction drives Richard to help teams identify opportunities to work smarter not harder, to be empowered to self-direct and lead change, to take on the Lean toolkit. 
Presenter Name: John Broadbent
Company Name: Realise Potential
John has over 48 years’ experience in manufacturing with the last 25 years dedicated to helping manufacturers of all sizes utilise smart factory concepts. In more recent times he’s become somewhat of an Industry 4.0 evangelist, and his passion and experience are valued by manufacturers, both locally and overseas. He also supports manufacturers with developing implementation roadmaps as an independent advisor, as well as presenting educational keynotes and workshops to manufacturers, industry bodies and institutions such as universities.
Presenter Name: JP Picard
Company Name: Factory AI
JP is the CEO of Factory AI, a company that enhances maintenance and condition monitoring by delivering faster, more accurate insights using advanced AI, sensor data, operational logs, and external data.
In his role, JP collaborates with reliability leaders, engineers, and maintenance teams to understand their machines and reliability strategy to show how AI can help prevent issues and improve planning.
Presenter Name: Peter Horsburgh
Company Name: Sologic
Peter is an Engineer, manager and leader with a passion for machine reliability. He has been an engineer for over 20 years working with plant in the mining, smelting and power generation industries. He has holds a mechanical engineering degree and masters of business administration (MBA). He is a speaker, author, and founder of Reliabilityextranet.com, managing director of Sologic Australasia Pty and Sorba.ai APAC Pty Ltd. Outside of his work he flies aeroplanes and could fly and aeroplane solo before he could drive a car by himself. He has won the Australian Light Aircraft championships in 2017 and represented Australia for the Royal Federation of Aeroclubs. He has two sons, and together they have a hobby of restoring cars, and their latest project is a Mazda RX-8 Rotary. The family's first rotary powered car.
Presenter Name: Phill Da Cruz
Company Name: Kynection
Phill Da Cruz is a seasoned Channel Manager at Kynection, focused on building strategic alliances and expanding Kynection’s partner network. With deep expertise across the blue-collar and tech sectors, Phil has a strong record of forming partnerships that drive growth and add value. His work centres on aligning business needs with Kynection’s innovative solutions, creating synergies that enhance scalability, streamline operations, and reduce double data handling. Phil is dedicated to cultivating a robust ecosystem of trusted partners, fostering collaboration that supports Kynection’s mission to transform digital workflows and compliance in challenging industries.
Topic Summary:
Many organisations wish to improve their factory or process capability, it has been a goal for decades, with organisations investing heavily in programs based around the Toyota principles, such as LEAN, Six Sigma and others. We now talk about Industry 4.0 and artificial intelligence, as being the silver bullet for the future.
In this workshop, we will explore some of the fundamentals of improving process capability, through a series of presentations in a storyboard format. The presenters are part of our IPA Collective program, which brings together leading industry experts from around Australia.
Our Storyboard begins with building the foundations and progresses through to creating visibility through enterprise solutions.