Advanced Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing is an engineering tool used to accurately describe parts and manufacturing tolerances. Basic GD&T is reviewed and advanced concepts are discussed and applied in a workshop format. Attention is given to applying GD&T in the “real world.”
Business Operating System (BOS)
This workshop will introduce the concepts of the Business Operating System (BOS) by outlining the major steps required to implement an efficient system of measuring performance. The workshop also includes the review process that ensures performance goals are being met.
Design Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
Reducing product development time and providing the defect-free products is a vital competitive strategy. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a planning tool that is applied to the design of a product or process. FMEA enables a cross-functional team to identify and prevent problems from occurring. During this interactive seminar, participants will have an opportunity to apply the concepts of DFMEA to a company project.
Design of Experiments
Experiments is used in manufacturing to design robust products and processes. Designed experiments rely heavily on statistical methods to determine a variation within trials and between trials. Variation is the key to determining if two or more trials show significantly different results. This course includes a basic review of statistics and then covers the more common experiment designs. In the manufacturing environment, proficiency at the Design of Experiments allows optimal settings of process parameters.
Lean Manufacturing Overview
Companies responding to cost pressures understand how lean principles and techniques can improve operations, reduce costs and increase profit margins.
Poka-Yoke/Mistake Proofing
Is a fundamental part of Continuous Improvement when the process “meets” product. Defects, errors and accidents are all results of either a “poor” process or product design. Mistake proofing techniques provide the strategy to improve both project and process performance while taking into account all the traits of human interaction.
SMED Quick Changeover
Frequent setups are necessary to produce a variety of products in small lots. In order to become more flexible, there is a need to focus on reducing setup time and using the techniques of the Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) to meet challenging customer requirements. SMED refers to a theory and the techniques for performing setup operations in fewer than ten minutes – the number of minutes can be expressed in a single digit. This course is an introduction to inexpensive techniques that can be used to achieve quick changeovers.
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
TPM is a company-wide, team-based effort to improve output quality while decreasing input, accomplished through equipment care that improves overall equipment effectiveness. Participants learn that TPM combines the practice of preventive/predictive maintenance with Total Quality Control and Total Employee Involvement, to create a culture where operators develop ownership of their equipment and become full partners with Maintenance, Engineering and Management to assure equipment always operates properly.
Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
Value stream mapping is a valuable tool used to create value and eliminate MUDA (waste). The value stream map is the most important tool used to make sustainable progress in reducing MUDA. Create a value stream map and learn to use it to differentiate between value and waste and to get rid of the waste. The value stream map lets you identify every process in the flow. It should be used every time a change is made to any process or flow.
5S
5S uses simple highly effective techniques to remove waste from your work environment through better workplace organization, visual communication, and general cleanliness.
Visual Workplace
Build upon the 5S approach to housekeeping through the visual location of items and equipment, Kanban control, inventory, safety, performance reporting, job instructions, and more.