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Factory Physics: The Science of Lean Manufacturing
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Upcoming Sessions
  June 6-8, 2007
$ 3,300

Manufacturing Management Week
(both Factory Physics and Supply Chain Management -- offered at a 10% discount!)
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  June 3-8, 2007
$ 7,425
Key Benefits
During this course, you will:
Link day-to-day operational details to business strategies
Analyze process flows to target improvement efforts
Focus on operating policies that represent key leverage points with respect to the bottom line
Work with your systems’ natural tendencies to develop customized policies for your environment
Identify strategies for increasing throughput, shortening cycle time, reducing variability, and improving quality
 

"[This program] gave me a structure with which to examine my own business and improve it, using the tools we learned about in the case studies."
Director of Manufacturing, Hoover Materials Handling Group

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Program Content
 
The Strategic Role of Operations

Strategic operations framework

Wriston Manufacturing case
The Business Process Flows Framework

Concepts and applications

What is improvement? CRU rental case
The Toyota Production System
Diagnosing common problems
Making improvements

Toyota Motor Company case
Analyzing Process Flows

Basic operational measures

National Cranberry Case
Science of Lean Manufacturing
Historical perspective
Translating strategy into policy
Basic Factory Dynamics
WIP, cycle time, throughput relationships
Little’s Law
Internal benchmarking
HAL, Inc. case
Variability Basics
Variability measures
Process and flow variability
Downtime, setups, and other variability sources
The Corrupting Influence of Variability
Mechanics of congestion
Batching effects
Buffering with WIP, capacity, service
Factory Physics diagnostics
HAL Procoat case
Push and Pull Production
The “magic” of pull
Kanban, CONWIP, and other pull implementations
Improvement Strategies
Better logistics through better quality
Working with and around MRP
Spartan Case
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