Effective Manufacturing

Aims:

This course is designed to show opportunities for the development of processes and structures, the variety of techniques available and their application. It will also show how to ensure successful MRP and lean operations and the distribution of involvement and responsibility.

Target audience:

This course is designed for all those responsible for efficient operations, including production managers, production controllers, materials schedulers and master planners.

Course content:

• Organisation of manufacturing for best results
• Structuring and flow for different industries
• Performance measures and planning
• Overall equipment effectiveness
• Master scheduling and planning
• ERP operations and MRP II
• Lead-times
• Lean manufacturing - the way ahead
• Batch control, kanbans and SMED
• Quality management
• Kaizen, 5S and creating change
• Resource management
• Material planning - MRP
• Capacity planning and control
• Outsourcing
• Workplace organisation
• Throughput balancing and constraints
• Bottlenecks and flexibility
• Priority control
• Information control
• Bills of materials
• Data control
• Systems operation