Course Objective

• Achieve world-class manufacturing standards
• Organize production operations to meet customer needs
• Reduce lead and cycle times
• "Build" products that can be effectively scheduled in varying environments
• Build an information infrastructure that smoothly converts to your manufacturing management systems

Course Outlines

• Strategic Designs for Manufacturing Environments
• Understand the Key Elements of Competition Which Face Manufacturing Firms
• Define the Planning Process Used by Manufacturing Firms to Best Use of Company Resources and Meet Customer Demand
• Discover What Impact the Product/Volume—Product/Variety Matrix Has on the Manufacturing Strategy Selected by a Company to Run Operations and Learn about Product Families
• Learn How Your Company Can Qualify, Bid on and Win Customer Orders by Meeting Certain Production Control Objectives
• Understand the Approaches Used by Companies to Schedule Production in Varying Business Environments
• Overview How the Course Is Designed to Cover These Scheduling Approaches
• High Level Resource Planning
  • Evaluate How Your Company Follows a Production Plan and the Relative Merits of Sales and Operations Planning
  • Learn How to Do S&OP in Detail
  • Learn Where and How Resource Planning Is Used for High-Level Planning
  • Define the Four Levels of Capacity Planning
  • Develop Your Own Sales and Operations Plan
  • Use a Bill of Resources to Determine High-Level Constraints
• Master Production Schedule and MRP
  • Define the Data Requirements for the Master Production Schedule
  • Learn the Principles and Guidelines for MPS
  • Discover the Importance of Accuracy and Truthfulness in the MPS
  • Describe the Master Scheduler's Job and the Type of Person Who Makes the Best Master Scheduler
  • Define the Purpose of Time Fences
  • Learn the Difference between MRP and MRP II
  • Learn about Bills of Material and Their Different Forms
  • Learn about BOM Setback Logic in MRP
• Managing Production Control Activities — Capacity Planning, Work Center Routings and Lead Time, Shop Scheduling and Priority Planning
  • Learn How Capacity, Load and Input/Output Control Are Used to Schedule the Shop Floor
  • Learn How to Develop Routings and Dispatch Lists and How CRP Uses Them
  • Define and Discuss Titles and Tasks of the PAC Planner
  • Learn How to Schedule Work Orders and the Use of Priority Rules and Dispatch Lists
  • Define and Use Critical Ratio for Priority Planning
• Optimizing the Supply Chain and Lean Manufacturing
  • Define the Purpose of Lean Manufacturing
  • Define Supply Chain Management
  • Identify the Impact of Inventory in the Supply Chain
  • See the Impact of Full Utilization
  • Learn How All Departments Can Become Lean
• Just-in-Time, Kaizen and Waste Elimination
  • Learn the True Definition of Just-in-Time
  • Define Waste or Muda in All Areas of the Company
  • View a JIT Video and Perform a Simulation
  • Learn How to Use Pull Systems and the Use of Kanban Cards
  •  Learn How to Balance Lines with Cycle Times and Calculate Demand to Support Line Balancing
  •   List the Three Pillars of GEMBA Kaizen
  •  Learn the Definition of the 5 S's
  •  Learn How to Reduce Set-Ups and Inventory
  •  Learn about Foolproof Techniques—Poke Yoke
  •   Learn How Visual Systems Improve Operations
• Constraint Management—Being Right Every Time
  • Learn the Definition of the Theory of Constraints
  • Define the Three Most Important Objectives
  • View a Video of "The Goal"
  •  List the Five Steps for Bottleneck Management
  •  Perform a Simulation of a Herbie
  •  List the Rules for the Constraint Management
  •  Analyze a Process Flow Chart to Improve Output
• World Class Measurements to Drive Ongoing Improvement
  • Define the Various Cost Management Models and Discuss How They Are Used in the Manufacturing Environment
  •   Learn How to Use World Class Measures and What You Should Measure
  • Define the Three "Ts" of All Measures: Trend, Target and Tolerance
  • Discuss How the World Class Measure Board Model Can Be Used in Your Organization

Who Should Attend

• Plant managers
• master schedulers
• production activities planners
• production control managers
• shift supervisors
• materials managers
• capacity planners
• Production staff and manufacturing and industrial engineers who interface with operations driving improvement activities in an MRP environment.

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