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Course Outline
Day 1
- Broad aims of manufacturing strategy (differentiation, cost, flexibility, quality, timeliness)
- Competitive trends in manufacturing
- Historical perspective (scientific management, piece rate pay)
- Manufacturing system bottlenecks and potential causes
- Key measures for manufacturing systems
- Cycle time, flow time, throughput, work in process
- Trade-off between efficiency and flow time
- Utilization
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- Application of Little’s Law
- Understanding batches vs. transfer batches to determine batch size
- Typical relationship for product variety vs. volume and corresponding layout types
- Options for assignment of labor, with classroom demonstration
Day 2
- Cellular manufacturing including linked cells and U-shaped cells
- Classroom demonstration of functional departments vs. manufacturing cells
- Line balancing for assembly, machining, and fabrication
- Introduction to Lean, Theory of Constraints, Agile Manufacturing, and Quick Response Manufacturing and how they relate to manufacturing system fundamentals
- Strategy deployment to enable effective implementation of desired improvements