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PPS (practical problem solving) is the engine of continuous improvement, which in turn is the backbone of the Toyota production system. Root causes of problems are revealed with PPS and sustainable improvements developed.
Similar to an instrument panel, you can measure and display how your company is performing; this can then be used as the basis for decision making. Improvement activities impact on your KPIs.
Is it necessary to create space for the introduction of new processes or to support the increase in volume? Is the factory the result of a disorderly historical development? Is there room for improvement in value flow?
A successful sailor knows how to use the wind and therefore reaches his destination. The compass leads him the right direction. In the second half of the last century the Hoshin Kanri principle of development and cascading of goals was…
Industry 4.0 is the theme of the moment. Most manufacturing companies have embarked on digital transformation paths. But what are the steps? What are the difficulties and problems encountered? What are the real objectives and benefits? This study trip will give you the opportunity to get in touch with one of the most advanced research centers in the world on the topic of Industry 4.0 and…
Rising labour costs, volatile markets, increasingly high quality standards and a growing diversity of customer needs require ever shorter lead times and a new level of production flexibility. These challenges are increasingly difficult to meet with traditional production methods. The solution is the Smart Factory, which combines lean production principles (Lean Production), modular…
“Autonomous maintenance” (1 of the 8 pillars of TPM® activities) aims “to maintain their own plants/methods of production”. Consistent with this philosophy are all the simple “Kaizen” that depend on the operators: improvements applied manually and without economic investment, made by means of levers, cams, cranks, cogwheels, tempered blocks – i.e. principles (mechanisms) that allow…
GENBA DIGITAL DATA: RACCOGLIERE I DATI SUL CAMPO IN MODO «SMART»
Quante volte i dati che ci occorrono non sono disponibili? Quante volte avremmo bisogno di raccogliere rapidamente informazioni in modo sistematico? Quante volte ci siamo scontrati con il «muda» della compilazione dei moduli (e con le relative imprecisioni)?
La tecnologia diventa un abilitatore del processo di miglioramento quando consente di basare le decisioni e le priorità di miglioramento su dati ed informazioni reali.
Con il workshop Kart Factory® IOT potrete apprendere come fare.
How is the continuous improvement process managed within your company? Are you used to the status quo, or has change become a habit? Do you feel that improvement is an extraordinary activity but you think it is important to practice it on a daily basis? Do you have the “suggestion box” but after a few initial proposals you now find it empty? Do you feel that improvement initiatives are…
Unpredictability, lack of routine, firefighting, and stress are symptoms of a unorganized factory. Have you ever had the feeling? This happens because important information flows unstructured, almost random. When the factory…
Have you heard of “Lean” but you think it is only for mass production? Do you want to understand which techniques and tools are best suited to the specific characteristics of your business? Then this is the right course for you.
Do you have lead time problems? Lack of assembly flow and inventory between departments? Too big lots and lack of rhythm in the work processes? This seminar will help you get rid of traditional thinking patterns and optimize assembly processes in a sustainable way in both series and contract production. You will learn the principles of waste-free assembly.
How to sustain a Lean Transformation process over time? How to help your employees in the process of change? How to deal with normal situations of resistance to transformation?
To manage the transformation you have to put yourself on….
You know the problems of high inventory, missing parts and supplier returns? The approach of ‘separation of value creation and logistics’, drastically changed the classic material industry. The successful application of lean methods in…
Do you happen to ask for the same information every day, to find it hard to find it in the appropriate ways and times? Do you find it difficult to meet deadlines and then have to deal with requests for reminders or complaints and…
Lean Order Fulfilment is the comprehensive approach for optimised results in processing customer orders and projects. Excellent processes develop as the result of eliminating and preventing waste combined with a great focus on real…
Do you have inadequate product development times? Are results unsatisfactory and budgets systematically overshot? Many of the improvement projects focus on individual functions within the overall process (innovation, development, industrialization, purchasing, etc.). This is why such efforts generally only yield marginal results. In order to remain competitive, however, it is essential…
Have you already heard of “Lean” and would you like to know more about its meaning and approach? Are you (no longer) able to find your way around the world of “Lean” and need an overview of this philosophy? Or are you at the beginning…
Project deadlines are planned and confirmed, but not met? Budget limits are exceeded? Is there a continuous feeling of chaos, between changing priorities, resources that are never enough, objectives often missed? Parkinson’s Law and…
The word and concept of “Lean” had been applied to the wide varieties of areas such as Lean Manufacturing, Lean Office, Lean Six Sigma, etc. In Japan, the leading manufacturers implement many types of innovation and improvement…
The Customer Journey is the main tool to align the company’s sales process with the real customer needs. It lasts from the moment the customer looks for satisfying his/her needs until the moment he/she completes the purchase and uses…
The global competition, the dynamic evolution of business models, the increasingly short decision-making processes are among the main challenges that characterize the sales world. The systematic achievement of strategic objectives, the…
The PCourse® is a training program with strong practical value, focused on Industrial Engineering issues. The “P” of PCourse indicates “Production” but also “Productivity”: the departments become a classroom and the problems become the subject of training and field training. From the theoretical-practical training sessions on the job through the application of the principles of…
Digitization – a mega trend that no company can escape from! At the same time, its characteristic is not immediately obvious. On the contrary, chances and challenges often stay diffuse. Concrete first steps don’t seem to be worthwile as classic key performance indicators remain too dominant: “Turnover, cost structure, flexibility”. Established ways of acting are entrenched too deeply in…
Do you need to design or rethink your innovation development strategy? The R&D Kaizen Course answers your need: the training is based on the concept of continuous improvement (Kaizen) applied to R&D institutions. It is a modular program, whose elements provide the tools and methodologies to generate within the company a virtuous circle and self-feed the process of innovation generation.
La funzione commerciale e quelle strettamente correlate (ad es. engineering, customer service, marketing) di molte aziende B2B sono sottoposte a forti pressioni per farsi riconoscere da clienti e prospect il maggiore valore della…
A crucial topic on the path towards an efficient “flowing” production is the optimisation of set-up times. Production according to market or customer requirements also includes the optimisation of batch size calculations and order…
How to manage projects for make-to-order companies? How to define the priorities between different orders? The Setsuban Kanri™ is a methodology for production control, based on the principle that make-to-order companies must supervise two axes in an integrated and balanced way: Order Axis (x-axis), Department Axis (y-axis), without forgetting to supervise load/capacity, priority…
Conoscete i fondamenti di ShopFloor Management® trattati nella giornata di formazione accademica “I fondamenti dello SFM”, ma non vedete positivi cambiamenti nei comportamenti delle persone? Fate dei frequenti standup meeting ma vivete…
In industry and business, the buzzword “digital transformation” is on every decision-maker’s lips at present. At the same time the understanding about how to carry out a digital transformation and how to determine its success on the ShopFloor could not be more blurred and vary more. This is why this one-daylecture is providing a compact and integrated overview how to concretely implement…
Do you have unstable performance problems (Quality, Productivity)? Is the process unreliable? Are some key activities dependent on the presence of specific resources? Do you think that non-application of standards is solely a matter of…
In times of global pandemics, environmental catastrophes and political instabilities, high planning uncertainties are faced. Disruptions in the supply chain network have been challenging across all types of industries and have…
A functioning management system allows a network to be managed, controlled and strategically developed across the board.
A supply chain network strategy is derived on the basis of the corporate vision. In order to control networks and…
Supply chains are increasingly developing into multidimensional, complex and global value chains. The reasons for this are ever faster innovation and development cycles, a trend towards shorter delivery times and increasing product…
Within organizations, maximizing the potential of human resources means perfecting strategies and methods for involving people. Managing work groups means refining relational and communicative skills and being able to motivate employees to work effectively in a team. Teamwork should ensure that overall results are better than the sum of individual efforts. Organizations are made up of…
In the introduction of Lean Production systems, the focus is often solely on implementing methods and tools that are subsequently maintained through Lean Experts or as the result of the cost pressure of efficiency increasing Programs….
TPM® is a methodology developed in Japan during the 1980s within the JMA Group. Structured by steps in an organically defined system architecture, the TPM® is still applied not only to make maintenance activities efficient, but also to allow, through the increase of efficiency in the technical-operational field, to highlight spaces and opportunities for improvement in business management…
Do you need to significantly improve the availability and productivity of your plants? You would like to beautify your production departments? Do you need to recover production capacity but now is not the right time to make investments in new plants? Then you need to start a TPM® – Total Productive Maintenance program. TPM® is the most comprehensive, widespread and effective improvement…
Do your company’s revenues and margins depend on the availability of production facilities? Despite the investments made, is the output not satisfactory? Is the value flow constrained by plant bottlenecks? Then you need to work on…
Sustainable lead time reduction and process safety in production and order fulfilment are in the focus of operational improvement projects. The elimination of ‘Muda’ (waste) is the main task of effective optimisation. Value stream…
Do you often find yourself interacting with your colleagues and collaborators on complex projects? Would you like to improve the performance of your team, but don’t know how? Have you heard about Visual Thinking techniques and simply want to know more? This seminar will take you into the world of visual facilitation and provide you with a set of visual techniques that you can use on…
The working world of the future is coined by increasingly challenging tasks: Volatile markets as well as societal and technological factors demand for new ways of thinking and acting. Experience the industry 4.0 showcase factory in GrabenNeudorf on your smart journey across the different stages of a Lean Transformation – towards an intelligent, collaborative working system.
