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Manufacturing Delivery Performance Improvement

Delivery Performance Improvement is a 2-day comprehensive and intensive training program that identifies the causes and corrective actions of manufacturing delinquencies.   If your organization struggles with meeting production schedules, you need this training.  The course focuses on product, process, capacity, load, lead time, management, and supplier issues, and presents a logical, proven approach for rapidly eliminating the causes of delinquent delivery performance.  We will show you how to identify the dominant causes of poor delivery performance in your organization, and how to overcome these issues such that you routinely deliver on time. 

ManufacturingTraining can deliver this training onsite in your facility, or you can take this training through the University of Kansas online Manufacturing Performance programs.  We've teamed with the University of Kansas, and we are pleased to offer a Manufacturing Optimization Online Certificate Program.  

The Manufacturing Optimization Online Certificate Program features practical, experience-based and proven approaches for rapidly optimizing your manufacturing process. The program includes basic concepts, improvement opportunity identification techniques, implementation strategies, risk identification and avoidance methodologies, and extensive use of practical examples in all modules.  Here's the schedule for our next courses:

Quality Management:  Mar 5 - Mar 21, 2013

Root Cause Failure Analysis:  Apr 30 May 16, 2013

Cost Reduction and Optimization:  Jun 25 - Jul 18, 2013

Our newest book, Manufacturing Delivery Performance Improvement, is now available, and copies are provided to each participant in this course.  If you're struggling to get back on schedule or you want to stay on schedule, you need this book! Course Materials Manufacturing Delivery Performance Improvement (approximately 250 presentation charts and materials) Manufacturing Delivery Performance Improvement, published by 7P Publications in 2012.

Who Should Attend

Plant managers, manufacturing managers, supervisors, managers, purchasing personnel, manufacturing engineers, quality engineers, program managers, and others responsible for delivering manufactured goods on schedule will benefit greatly from this training.

Manufacturing Delivery Performance Improvement Syllabus

Manufacturing Delinquency Causes

Inadequate capacity.

Poor production control.

Poor productivity.

Procurement shortfalls.

Poor process yields.

Organizational ambiguity.  

Key Concepts

Capacity versus load

Assessing capacity.

Machine capacity.

Labor capacity.

Outside processing capacity.

Supplier capacity.

Load.

Assessing loads.

Lead time.

Identifying lead time.

Lead time discipline.

Booking under lead time considerations.

Capacity versus Load imbalances.

The relationship between load, capacity, and lead time.

Work-center-specific capacity-versus-load considerations.

Capacity-versus-load ongoing assessments.

Identifying bottlenecks.

The lead time versus sales conflict.

Standards.

The importance of accurate standards.

Establishing accurate standards.

The significance of standards when bidding new work.

Production scheduling.

Class exercise.

Finding Capacity

Overtime.

Lost time considerations.

Equipment upgrades.

Utilization upgrades.

Productivity upgrades.

Reducing setup times.

Class exercise.

Production Control

Production control definitions.

Planner functions and the planning process.

Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP).

Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP).

The relationship between planning skills and MRP/ERP.

Common work center scheduling problems and how to plan around them.

Suggested metrics for monitoring planning and production control effectiveness.

Class exercise.

Productivity Challenges

Productivity and efficiency definitions.

Evaluating productivity.

Signs of poor productivity.

Standards versus actuals.

MRP/ERP productivity assumptions.

Establishing standards and personal fatigue/delay factors.

The learning curve.

Machine utilization.

Delay ratio analyses.

Identifying and acting on productivity bottlenecks.

Measuring and acting on efficiency trends.

Visual manufacturing.

Productivity improvement recommendations.

Class exercise.

Supplier Challenges

Typical supplier content.

Fictitious issues.

Supplier selection.

Supplier rating systems.

The requisition/purchase order challenge.

Streamlining the requisition and purchase order process.

Monitoring planner and buyer performance.

Identifying supplier lead times, loads, and capacities.

Purchase order due dates versus production need dates.

Tracking unplaced purchase orders.

Recommended corrective actions.

Class exercise.

Process Yield Challenges

Design robustness.

Process robustness.

Factoring in yield.

Aggressive failure analysis.

Implementing corrective actions.

Proactive preventive actions.

Schedule recovery actions.

Product Delivery Responsibilities

Organizing along product versus process lines.

Product mix issues.

Responsibility for addressing anomalies.

Product champions.

Focusing delivery responsibilities.

A suggested organizational structure.  

Course Conclusion

Wrap-up.

A suggested delivery performance improvement roadmap.

Course critique.

The above training can be customized to meet your requirements.

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Any questions?  Please call us at 909 204 9984 or contact us via e-mail.