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Principles of Manufacturing Excellence - Manufacturing Best Practices
The world is going through a change in an unprecedented manner. There is an increasing need for higher level of efficiency, effectiveness and excellence than ever before. In manufacturing world, there are many initiatives and methodology such as Lean, Six sigma, Quality circles, Agile, Design Thinking, RCM etc.... that often makes the company executives confusing enough on which methodology to follow and what to implement in current world of manufacturing, confusion leading to not to adopt any of these initiatives in a meaning full manner. The 1 day introductory Executive Workshop on "Manufacturing Best Practices - 10 Principles for Manufacturig Excellence" is an interactive, hand on workshop that carefully picks and choose the concepts, tools & techniques, from various productivity improvement initiatives mentioned above, just like right tools from a large tool box with many tools, that has worked well in various industries and put them together as a holistic approach to achieving Excellence in Manufacturing. The facilitator of workshop is an accomplished expert in Manufacturing Excellence / Business excellence area (See facilitator’s profile below). He has extensive hands on experience in leadership position in various manufacturing set up globally and has implemented many business excellence initiatives in different scenarios that led to phenomenal improvement in manufacturing excellence & financial gains. The facilitator will bring real successful examples & case studies to the workshop from his 24 years of experience. The workshop is specially designed for busy executives, managers and supervisors who want to gain insight into principles of manufacturing excellence quickly so that they can practice & implement these in their manufacturing world.
Objective
- Participants will learn most effective & proven tools & techniques for Manufacturing from each of the key initiatives such as Lean, six Sigma, QCC, Agile, RCM etc instead of learning each initiative and force fitting & experimenting these which takes more time, costlier and may not be effective overall.
- Various examples & case studies from wide spectrum of manufacturing industry around the world
- Manufacturing Excellence Maturity level diagnostic tools, techniques & audit details
Outline
- Overview of various Operational Excellence initiatives & current practices
- Linking Operational Excellence Metrics (KPI) to Manufacturing Strategic Metrics (KPI)
- Introduction / Hands On session on "Principles of Manufacturing Excellence"
o 10 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence will be dealt with in detail
o Roles & Responsibility across the company for Manufacturing Excellence - Ensuring "Sustenance of Manufacturing Excellence
o Manufacturing Excellence diagnostics & Audits
o Audit team structure / Audit do & Don’t - Best Practice Case Study
- Introduction to "Unleashing Creativity in Manufacturing Excellence"
Who should attend
- Managers / Supervisors in manufacturing industry who want to improve their productivity, efficiency and strive towards Manufacturing Excellence thru combining right tools & techniques
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Operational Excellence practitioners who want to enhance their skills & want to learn how to combine right tools & techniques from various initiatives that has worked as a "one suite" instead of differentiated setting
Mid Career professionals who want to upskill their knowledge by acquiring practical understanding of Manufacturing Excellence techniques & principles -
Executives / Senior Management Team / Directors of companies that want to have an awareness & understanding of Principles of Manufacturing Excellence so that they can better able to coach & mentor their managers for a better operational results
Profile of Ramesh Rao
Ramesh Rao holds bachelor’s degree in Engineering, MBA in finance & supply chain. He also holds Diploma in Adult Continuous Education (DACE) & Advance Certification in Learning & Performance (ACLP) from SUSS Singapore. Additionally, Ramesh comes with multiple professional certifications in Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Design Thinking Facilitation, Agile & project management, Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, Programming, RPA and more.
Ramesh has over 30 years of career experience both in corporate role as well as in training and consulting. Ramesh has served in leadership role in process & operations management, product & service design, Industrial automation, operational excellence, and as global finance controller for US MNCs serving in multiple countries and continents. As a consultant and trainer, Ramesh has conducted more 2000 training and workshops both public as well as in-house on multiple domains such as Lean Six Sigma, Design Thinking, Agile, Digital Transformation, Financial skills, change management, Data analytics, Statistics, Smart factory solutions etc. Ramesh has served industries such as Manufacturing, Retail, Supply Chain, Banking, Financial Services, Education industry, government sectors, R&D & NGOs across Asia, Europe & USA.
As a DACE & ACLP certification holder, Ramesh has provided WSQ / SSG accredited training for several training providers in Singapore.
