Execution and Control of Operations

This course concentrates on the areas of prioritizing and sequencing work, executing work plans and implementing controls, reporting activity results, and providing feedback on performance. It explains techniques for scheduling and controlling production processes, executing quality initiatives and continuous improvement plans, and controlling and handling inventories. The objectives of the course are: Explain how to schedule production and process plans in the manufacturing process, the impact of variation on business systems, and methods for managing production resources Demonstrate the effect of the facilitys layout on scheduling , workflow, input and output control techniques, and push system techniques Explain bottleneck management, lead-time control operations and technique, reporting activities and data collection techniques, cost systems, impact on decision making, and the effect of specifications and standards on product quality Identify report and data collection techniques, manufacturing environments for all pull systems, interfaces and data exchanges required to execute a plan, and pull systems. Upon completion of this course participants will be able to develop production, quality, and process plans; identify the effect of the facilitys layout on scheduling and workflow; and establish lead-time control.