Embracing Digital Technology
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These training courses are for those meeting the challenge of delivering gains from Advanced Technology and Digitisation. That includes activities to surface and deal with the barriers to improvement from legacy rules of thumb and protocols.
Delivering Advanced Technology Gains
- Details
- Parent Category: Courses
- Category: Embracing Digital Technology
- Dates: 4 hour course
- Location: Live On Line Working Session
- Cost: £500 plus VAT (up to 8 delegates)
The lesson learned from successful early adopters of advanced technology is that that the biggest gains come not from the technology itself, but from the improved connectivity it provides. This can remove traditional communication delays between functions and with it uncertainty about what can be achieved. It can also provide rapid feedback to support the application of practical actions to improve workflows.
This half day on line session is designed to raise awareness of the evolving best practice road map for delivering advanced technology gains at scale (not just pockets of improvement). That includes
- The building blocks of success.
- How to avoid the common implementation pitfalls that result in pilot purgatory.
- How to engage the workforce with delivering disruptive gains from advanced technology.
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Overview
Don't re invent the wheel. Use Lean and TPM principles and techniques to deliver gains from advanced technology. This short course provides an overview of how to do that and where to start.
It also includes activities to help you and your colleagues to identify barriers to progress and map out next steps to deal with them.
Successful adopters of advanced technology shown how this can deliver significant Quality, Cost and Delivery performance gains. In many cases this also releases new areas of customer value to raise the bar for customer expectations. Together, these gains have the potential to disrupt the business landscape making it harder for others to compete for customers and attract the best personnel.
While conventional wisdom might presume that delivering these gains requires a high levels of investment, leading organisations are achieving growth and higher productivity rates without the levels of costly investment which might have been required in the past.
The gains come from the improved connectivity provided by advanced technology. The outcomes include the creation of pragmatic workflows that accelerate gains from the use of Lean and TPM techniques to refine wasteful legacy work routines historically needed to deal with complex coordination of manufacturing resources.
The Digitisation of manufacturing management transforms the very nature of day-to-day operations by improving communications, allowing direct and indirect workers to focus on problem root cause identification and resolution.
At the heart of this programme is the engagement of cross functional improvement teams with clear objectives and effective collaborative working as part of the day to day operation. The enhanced connectivity also enables a closer integration of 3 improvement workflows into a Digital CI process to accelerate the delivery of gains from Lean and TPM principles and techniques.
Figure 1 Lean TPM Digital CI Process
In addition to the business gains, outcomes include higher employee engagement, focused training, skill development and improved problem solving capabilities.
Why Attend?Understand
- The advanced technology landscape, potential gains for your company and how to deliver them.
Know what it takes to
- Assess the gains from improved connectivity.
- Tap into the knowledge, skills and experience of the full company team.
- Engage them with the learning challenge and make them curious about the possibilities.
- Provide timely leadership to guide them towards the Quality, Cost and Customer service gains the business needs to prosper.
- Define your improvement road map milestones, identify who needs to be involved and plan the next steps of your journey.
Be able to
- Tame technology - by closing the gap between the technical and digital worlds
- Ratchet up improvement - through digitised resource management, Leading Indicators and Machine learning
- Enhance the speed and quality of skill development
- Adapt work processes
- Support rapid idea development and investment governance best practice
Who should attend?
The workshop content is designed for those faced with the challenge of tapping into the potential gains of advanced technology. That includes:
- Business Sponsors, key managers and team leaders
- Project Mangers
- Support personnel
- Manufacturing Engineers
- Change Agents and CI Facilitators
AgendaIntroduction
The Technology Landscape
- The advanced technology themes
- Where the gains come from
- Winning tactics and common pitfalls
Delivering the Gains
- Understanding connectivity
- Defining a problem finding process
- The Improvement Master Plan
Reliability
- End to End Value Stream
- Prioritising Improvement Areas
- Assessing Potential Gains
Workflow
- Process Review
- Work Management
- Standardisation
Daily Management
- System Infrastructure
- Real time task execution
- Workplace learning
Focussed Improvement
- Developing a Vision to Engage the Team
- Defining a realistic and achievable 12 month outcome
- Delivering results
Review of the Workshop
- Benefits, Concerns, Q&A
Led ByDennis McCarthy- DAK Consulting
Dennis began his career as an industrial engineer progressing into general management and director level roles. As a consultant he has helped well- respected and award winning organisations to accelerate the pace of improvement. This includes support for internal teams meeting challenges ranging from underperforming assets to company-wide multi-site transformation programmes in Europe, Australia, USA, India and China.
Make TPM Lean and Digital
- Details
- Parent Category: Courses
- Category: Embracing Digital Technology
- Dates: As required
- Location: 1 day on site
- Cost: up to 10 delegates £1500
Developing Skills to Make Better Use of Data
Delivering advanced technology gains is not just about the tech; it's about developing capabilities to use data to enhance current work routines and change the shop floor reality. This 1 day accelerator workshop provides a structured “plan the plan” session for local area leaders, planners, specialists and senior leaders to agree next steps to do that covering:
- Awareness of the advanced technology landscape, potential gains for your company and how to deliver them,
- Understand how to assess the advanced technology landscape options, the potential gains how to deliver them,
- Know how the "Make TPM Lean and Digital" Roadmap guides access to untapped and stranded data to surface and resolve legacy system weaknesses, deliver enhanced real time workflow performance and customer value,
- Be able to Integrate TPM, Lean and Digitisation into a forward improvement programme that builds on existing good practices and accelerate progress towards industry leading performance as part of the day to day routine.
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Overview
Delivering the Gains
An important Leadership role is envisioning how the enhanced connectivity that Smart Tech delivers, can change the way the business operates. For example, before digitisation, the daily reporting routine in one food a drink manufacturer involved collation of information from 10 separate systems. That took up 90 minutes of First Line Manager activity per shift.
Digitisation removed the need to do that and changed the daily priority for them from collecting data to using that data to develop the insight to improve future performance. It also changed the nature of the conversations between first line managers and their teams from problem solving to problem prevention improving engagement and encouraging a proactive improvement culture.
Workforce Engagement
This course sets out how to deliver the gains from investment in Smart Technology by engaging users with activities to:
- Encourage curiosity about how the new digital ecosystem can remove pain points, reduce waste and improve added value,
- Convert ideas into of practical improvements whilst running the business,
- Transition to new ways of working that increase customer value and support growth.
Why Make TPM Lean and Digital
The goal of TPM is the never ending improvement in equipment effectiveness through front line improvement teams. It provides practical road map to stabilise and optimise operations. That can raise capacity, reduce costs, improve operational safety and reduce quality defects.
The value of Lean thinking its ability to systematically improve workflow to achieve all of the above with less effort.
Together TPM and Lean provide a roadmap to reduce waste and release the full potential of manufacturing plant and processes.
Combining that with the enhanced connectivity of Digitisation and Smart Technology, accelerates the pace of systematic improvement.
What you will learn
The course raises awareness of the Smart Technology Landscape to provide an overview of what is available as well as common pitfalls to avoid. The content includes practical exercises leading to completion of a diagnostic workbook to identify strengths and priorities for improvement to support the successful introduction of Smart Technology and Digitisation projects. That includes content to:
- Understand the Smart Technology Landscape,
- Identify the impact that Smart Technology can have on the current way of working and business model,
- Recognise where that technology can enhance:
- Ability to succeed in existing markets,
- Provide a platform to progress into new markets
- Create new markets and set the customer agenda,
- How to selecting the Smart Technology project to achieve the best outcome.
That introduces delegates to how to:
- Recognise and fix legacy system weaknesses,
- Use data to systemise and enhance process control and workflows across the Plan, Source, Make Deliver value chain,
- Establish a Smart Technology Roadmap programme as a vehicle to deliver profitability and growth.
Why Attend?Raise Awareness of
- The advanced technology landscape, potential gains for your company and how to deliver them.
- The Digitisation roadmap milestones.
Understand
The synergy released by combining Digitisation, TPM and Lean improvement frameworks.
Know how
Make TPM Lean and Digital guides the creation of practical digital "Use cases" that:
- Link together untapped data.
- Surface and resolve legacy system weaknesses.
- Deliver enhanced real time workflow performance and customer value.
- Capture and deploy lessons learned.
Be able to
- Integrate TPM. Lean and Digitisation into a forward improvement programme that builds on existing good practices and accelerate progress towards industry leading performance as part of the day to day routine.
Who should attend?
The workshop content is designed for those faced with the challenge of tapping into the potential gains of advanced technology. That includes:
- Business Sponsors,
- Operational Managers and Team Leaders
- IT/OT Specialists
- Project Mangers
- Manufacturing Engineers
- Change Agents and CI Facilitators
AgendaThe Advanced Technology Landscape Winning Tactics and Pitfalls
- Diagnostic review
- Where the gains come from
- Common pitfalls.
- Delivering the gains you need.
OEE Desk Top Simulation
- OEE improvement strategues
- Defining the improvement glide path.
- Tapping into Performance and Cultural Drivers.
Make TPM Lean and Digital Roadmap
- The improvement cycle
- Creating Digital Dashboards
- Plant Asset Care
- Real Time workflows
- Analysis, Machine Learning and AI.
- Use Case, Microsystems and Systems Modelling.
Improving How Data is Used
- Local Leader Connectivity,
- Front Line Engagement,
- Systemising Routine Practices.
Where to Start
- Diagnostic and Readiness Review
- Piloting the LeanTPM Digital approach
- Scaling up successful Use Cases.
Your (Evolving) Smart Technology Road Map
- Defining a realistic and achievable 12 Month Outcome.
- 90 day forward plan.
Review of the Workshop
- Benefits, Concerns, Q&A
Led ByDennis McCarthy- DAK Consulting
Dennis began his career as an industrial engineer progressing into general management and director level roles. As a consultant he has helped well- respected and award winning organisations to accelerate the pace of improvement. This includes support for internal teams meeting challenges ranging from underperforming assets to company-wide multi-site transformation programmes in Europe, Australia, USA, India and China.