An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Essentials of Manufacturing Processes
The Key to Operations Management
Course Introduction
What are the fundamentals of modern manufacturing processes and operations management? This Essentials of Manufacturing Processes training course integrates multiple disciplines, including manufacturing engineering, operations management, maintenance, and reliability. It explores various manufacturing management functions and processes and examines how to effectively manage them using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
This Essentials of Manufacturing Processes training course will help you develop effective practices and techniques for managing manufacturing processes and critical assets proactively. By mastering these skills, you'll be better equipped to meet deadlines, achieve your objectives, and ensure the integrity of your plant. Additionally, you'll enhance your decision-making abilities to drive operational excellence and reliability.
This training course will feature:
- Classifications of manufacturing processes
- Manufacturing capacity scheduling
- Just in time and lean manufacturing systems
- Quality management systems and six sigma
- Learning from failures
Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Have a solid understanding of manufacturing processes and best practice techniques
- Have an understanding of a range of planning, management and controlling different manufacturing processes
- Have the ability to design a process for managing equipment failures and their implications to the operational organisation
- Know the practical approach to developing an action plan to utilise these technologies in their own areas of responsibility, fitting them into the overall manufacturing strategy, and measuring benefits
- Know the Integration of quality, maintenance, reliability and information systems concepts
Training Methodology
This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This is designed to be a hands-on, stimulating experience. This training course is highly interactive with many discussions and facilitated practice sessions led by speakers who are at the forefront of their field. There are plenty of case studies, and illustration of both worst and best practices in the field of maintenance and asset management. The trainer has conducted many research and development project in aspects of manufacturing, maintenance, quality and operations management and will share publications about projects in these fields.
Who Should Attend?
This comprehensive 5-day training course has been designed to benefit both qualified new professionals as well as experienced professionals who might need to refresh their skills It is highly recommended that all Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering and technical support staff including leadership and management attend this workshop. If you and your company are interested in greatly increasing productivity, this will be a very valuable course.
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Manufacturing supervisors and superintendents and anybody involved in setting manufacturing strategy
- Anyone working in materials and procurement management
- Safety and integrity professionals and anyone working in areas related to risk management
- Audit and quality assurance professionals
- Operational professionals who are interested in maintenance reliability and asset management
Course Outline
Day One
Classifications of Manufacturing Processes
- Introduction to processing and assembly operations
- Production systems
- Volume versus variety in manufacturing processes
- Manufacturing layout configurations
- Fundamentals of metal forming and sheet processes
- Classification of material removing processes
Day Two
Capacity Scheduling
- What is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)?
- Introduction to Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
- The evolution of Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII)
- Introduction to SAP
- Layout and capacity planning
- Master Production Schedule (MPS)
Day Three
Just in Time (JIT) and Lean Manufacturing
- The concept of lean thinking
- Push versus pull in manufacturing
- Different types of waste (Muda in Japanese language)
- Fail-safe systems in manufacturing (Poka Yoke)
- Continuous Improvements (The 5 Ss)
Day Four
Quality Management and Six Sigma
- The meaning of quality
- The gap model of quality
- Total quality management
- Deming wheel of Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDSA)
- Quality management maturing grid
- Quality awards
Day Five
Learning from Failures
- Why do systems fail?
- The concept of learning from failures
- Case studies from oil and gas industry
- Case studies from space and aviation industry
- Case studies from nuclear power generation industry
- The Decision Making Grid model for selection of appropriate strategy
Certificate
On successful completion of this training course, Oxford Management Centre Certificate with eligible Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) from National Registry of CPE Sponsor will be awarded to the delegates
Accreditation
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