Delivering Advanced Technology Gains

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.

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

Introduction

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

Dennis 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.