The following training classes can be conducted at your site.
Root Cause Analysis
A facilitated group process aimed at uncovering the basic, underlying causes for events and behavior that we don’t want repeated.
A systematic, analytical process that:
- Identifies behaviors and thought processes that lead workers to make mistakes
- Alters the manufacturing work environment to focus on preventing, rather than continuing to react to, chronic equipment failures
- Engages the manufacturing workforce to incrementally and continuously improve plant and business performance
- Reduces injuries, environmental accidents, and equipment failures
- Finds and puts in place solutions that really work
Planning & Scheduling Plant Outages/Turnarounds/Shutdowns
How to plan and execute outages that hit their goals for schedule duration and total cost
- Coordinating the various outage planning teams so preparations are completed on time
- Building detailed work plans
- Making safety paramount in all job steps
- Accurate estimate of costs (labor, materials, equipment, etc)
- Complete headcount of needed craftsmen, contractors, supervisors, etc
- Scheduling the individual work plans harmoniously in a way that safely minimizes the duration of the outage
- Conducting periodic planning readiness assessments to ensure an outage will be successful
- Executing the outage on time and under budget
Product Transition Time Reduction
- Dramatically reduces the time (up to 50% reduction) to complete equipment changeovers when going from product ‘A’ to product ‘B’
- Converts as many changeover steps as possible to “external” (performed while the equipment is running), then simplifies and streamlines the remaining steps
- Results:
- Less equipment down time, more production time
- Enables more frequent product changes, if desired
- Improved responsiveness to customer demand
- Less waste or off spec product during product changeovers
- Lower inventory levels
Contact me. Let’s talk about your needs and how I can work with you to improve your production environment.