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Productivity Improvement: Employing Modern Productivity Enhancement Methods (Paris)
Course
In Johannesburg, South Africa ()
Description
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Type
Course
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Duration
10 Days
Suitable for: This course is designed for: Productivity Engineers. Production Engineers. Human Factor Engineers. Production Supervisors or Managers. Operation Managers. Product or Motion Engineers. Performance Managers. All others with a desire to improve productivity
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Subjects
- Design
- Quality
- Quality Training
- Systems
- Production
- Quality Improvement
- Compliance
- Process management
- Quality management
- Product Quality
- Quality Process
Course programme
Course Contents, Concepts and Issues
Job Design and Productivity Improvement
- Job Design: An Introduction
- Mechanistic Job Design
- Biological Job Design
- Perceptual Job Design
- Motivational Job Design
Organisational Control Systems: Towards Productivity Improvement
- Modern Control Systems
- Management Information System
- Computerised Information Systems
- Information Speed
- Information Retrieval
- Management Accounting System
- The Import- Conversion –Export Process
- The Import Process
- The Conversion Process
- The Export Process
- Operational Control System
- Service Operation
- Process Scheduling
- Loading
- Sequencing
- Detailed Scheduling
- Inventory Control
- Cost Control
- Quality Control
- Controlling Utilisation of Organisational Resources
- Co-Ordaining As a Control Mechanism
- Mutual Adjustment
- Direct Supervision
- Standardisation of Work Process
- Standardisation of Input-Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes
- Standardisation of Output
- Organisational Structure as a Control Function
- Communication Dissemination
- Decision Making Involvement
- The ‘In’ Inventory
- The ‘Out’ Inventory
- The ‘JIT’ Inventory System
- The KANBAN System
- The Relationship between Quality and Productivity Improvement
- Establishing Quality Objectives
- Stating Precise Objective
- Setting Productivity Objectives in Relation to Other Organisational Objectives
- Relating Objectives to Specific Actions
- Pinpointing Expected Results
- Specifying When Goals Are Expected To Be Achieved
- Distinguishing Between Strategic, Tactical and Operational Objectives
- Establishing a ‘Quality-Throughput Accounting Balance’
- Continuous Improvement Programme
- Just-In-Time (JIT) Compared With Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- JIT vs. MRP: Component & Material Sourcing Strategy
- The Quality Benefits of JIT vs. MRP
- The Quality Issues Involved In JIT and MRP
- Kaizen or Continuous Improvement
- Quality as a Benchmark for Productivity Improvement
- Focus on the Advocacy of:
- Philip B. Crosby,
- W. Edwards Deming,
- Joseph M. Juran,
- Shigeo Shingo,
- Armand V. Eeigenbaum
- Internal and External Environmental Analysis
- Productivity and Strategic Operational Review (SOR)
- Incremental Productivity Improvement
- Communication for Productivity Improvement
- Researches and Development for Productivity Improvement
Understanding the Human Factor, Its Ergonomic Symbiosis and Productivity Improvement
- The Job in Content and Context
- The Individual in an Organisational Context
- The Worker as an Internal Customer
- The Organizational Context
- The Nature of the Task,
- Workload and Productivity Implications,
- The Working Environment,
- The Design of Displays and Controls, And –
- The Role of Procedures
- Competence and Productivity;
- Workforce Skills: Deskilling or Reskilling and Productivity Implications;
- Personality Factors and Productivity;
- Attitude and Productivity Implications;
- Aptitude as Trainability: A Productive Enhancer;
- Nurturing Productivity Enhancers of:
- Skills;
- Attitude;
- Disposition -
- The Organisational Context of:
- Work Patterns;
- The Embedded Culture;
- Available Resources;
- Communications Systems and Patterns;
- Predominant Leadership Styles;
- Employing Productivity Risk Analysis towards Productivity Improvement
- The Symbiotic Relationship between Ergonomics and Productivity Improvement: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Ergonomic Job Design
Productivity Improvement: Employing Modern Productivity Enhancement Methods (Paris)