PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION

PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION

Selected Methods of Production Optimization - 2 days
Date: 07.-08..03.2005
Course Number: A 010
Fee: RMB 5.500,- per participant

This seminar is a repetition of last years course „Increase in Efficiency through integrated Production and Logistics Systems“, a course ( „for advanced learners“ ) which met with a lot of acclaim from participants of major international corporations in China. All main elements of an advanced production system will be presented, tools which result in reduced WIPs, reduced inventories, significantly higher productivity and not at least shorter lead times. Part of the seminar are practice simulations (management games on one-piece-flow and line-balancing, e.g.). Participants will receive a priceless documentation C a CD compiling 400 pages of expert know-how C on best practice examples and lean manufacturing tools. Course faculty: Dr. Johannes Krämer and Mr Norbert Archinger, IFAO Inc. Karlsruhe/Germany.

Visit of Factories – Best-Practice Examples of Lean Manufacturing in China – 1 day
Date: 11.03.2005
Course Number: A 011
Fee: RMB 3.000,- per participant

This event is designed as a follow-up for participants with earlier courses on integrated production and logistics systems and production optimization (and for other delegates from participating companies) - but it is still also open to others. Aim of this course is to get a visual impression of lean manufacturing tools in practice. The factories we will visit are located in Jiangsu Province, but not far from Shanghai. Course faculty: Mr Norbert Archinger, IFAO Inc. Karlsruhe/Germany.

Transportation Optimization - 1 day
Date: 09.03.2005
Course Number: A 012
Fee: RMB 3.000,- per participant

How to reduce freight costs, how to design the optimal freight rate model for your product, how to design a milk run and a regional carrier concept, all these questions will be answered in this course. Structural options for organizing transport will be presented and the interrelation between procurement, transportation, producing, warehousing and distribution will be elaborated especially with regard to the target of minimizing supply costs. Course faculty: Mr Norbert Archinger, IFAO Inc. Karlsruhe/Germany.

Optimizing Material Management (using management game) - 2 days
Date: 27.-28.04.2005
Course Number: A 013
Fee: RMB 5.500,- per participant

This course will demonstrate ways to optimize material management by increasing material availability and reducing inventories. KANBAN and other tools for controlling material availability and manufacturing will be discussed as well as data structuring, methods of provisioning and forecasting and ways to optimize an ERP system. Using a step-by-step approach, case studies and simulation tools (management game) the course faculty will introduce a model which had been applied for the reengineering of five different plants of a major European industrial corporation. Course faculty: Mr Thomas Jung, CEO, and Mr Thomas Haugg, Senior Consultant, T & O Business Consulting Co., Ltd. Munich/Germany

Design, Tools and Implemenation of an integrated Production System - 2 days
Date: 02.-03.06.2005
Course Number: A 014
Fee: RMB 5.500,- per participant

The course faculty will introduce a production system which combines methods as lean production, Kaizen, JIT, Kanban, Fractal Factory, SixSigma or TQM. The necessary tools to create such a production system are demonstrated by best practice examples. The benefits of such an optimized production system - as increasing productivity by 10-20%, reducing lead times and stocks by 20-50% and reducing costs by 5-15% - will be discussed and participants will gain hands-on, implementation-oriented experience through a management game. Course faculty: Mr Ralf Gleixner, Senior Consultant, and Alexander Rehn, Director, T&O Management Consulting Co., Ltd. Munich/Germany

Reducing Lead, Process and Cycle Times - The Value Stream Mapping Approach in Practice - 2 days
Date: Please inquire
Course Number: A 015
Fee: RMB 5.500,- per participant

Time is money – and factories which have all the right processes in place, might still suffer from slow processes. To accelerate processes, the value stream mapping approach – element of the Toyota production system - is the tool of choice to identify the areas where acceleration can take place. The course faculty – Dr. Thomas Klevers, partner, GEPRO Ltd. Aachen/Germany, is one of the leading European experts in this field – will demonstrate business cases out of his experience as international consultant and will guide participants through exercises and management games providing participants with to hands-on experience how to reduce lead, process and cycle times.