Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Hygiene

• Establish a solid foundation for competitive manufacturing.
• Improve Quality, Cost and Delivery (QCD).
• Achieve flexibility in the shop floor.
• Eliminate waste and increase value.
• Encourage strong participation from the shop floor employees to make improvements

CONTENT

Cleaning and Organizing

• Turn messy workplaces into perfectly organized ones

Improvement Team Activities

• To achieve company goals
• Each team to achieve at least four improvement themes per year

Reducing Inventory

• Work in process is a major cause of long lead times
• Guidelines for reducing inventory

Zero Monitoring Manufacturing

• Monitoring is waste
• To establish unassisted, unmonitored operation

Monitoring Equipment

• Establish a Preventive Maintenance system
• Work towards zero sudden breakdowns
• How to prevent recurrence of breakdowns

Time Control and Commitment

• Coordinates all time control policies
• Establish steady rhythm to work smoothly and efficiently

Quality Assurance System

• Build a stronger QA system
• Shift from defect discovery to defect prevention
• Implement source control

Eliminating Waste at Shop Floor

• All operations which do not add value are waste
• Increase the actual work ratio

Empowering Workers to Make Shop Floor Improvements

• Shop floor improvement corner are created.
• Shop floor employees are empowered to make improvements.

Skill Versatility and Cross Training

• Provides flexibility for manufacturing
• Managing cross training

Production Scheduling

• Production scheduling is rooted in the principle that the next process is the customer
• To achieve on time delivery

Efficiency Control in the Shop Floor

• How to calculate efficiency
• Efficiency control for all operations

FOR WHOM:

Operation/Production Managers, Technicians, Machine Operators, Supervisors, Directors, and others who are involved in the day to day activities in the manufacturing sector.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.