Execution & Control of Operations
Focus on the areas of prioritizing and sequencing work, executing work plans and implementing controls, reporting activity results, and providing evaluation feedback on performance. The course explains techniques for scheduling and controlling production processes, the execution of quality initiatives and continuous improvement plans, and the control and handling of inventories.
Objectives:
- Explain how to schedule production and process plans in the manufacturing process, impacts of variation on business systems, and methods for managing production resources
- Demonstrate the effect of the facility’s layout on scheduling and workflow, input and output control techniques, push systems techniques and scheduling techniques
- Explain bottleneck management, lead time control operations and techniques, reporting activities and data collection techniques, cost systems, impact on decision-making, and the effect of specifications and standards on product quality
- Identify report and data collection techniques, manufacturing environments for pull systems, interfaces and data exchanges required to execute a plan, and pull system strengths and weaknesses
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to implement a continuous improvement plan and identify techniques for monitoring and evaluating quality management initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.
Session Topics:
- Planning, Execution, and Control Overview
- Scheduling, Production and Process Operations
- Authorizing, Executing, and Reporting Activities for Push Systems
- Authorizing, Executing, and Reporting Activities for Pull Systems
- Communicating Customer-Supplier Information and Controlling Resources
- Executing Quality Initiatives, Eliminating Waste, and Implementing Continuous Improvement Plans
- Quality and Continuous Improvement Initiatives - Making it Happen
- Quality Management Processes
- Evaluating Performance and Providing Feedback
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