Synchro game - an introduction to lean production principles & practice

Course Summary
The participants are confronted with an initial situation involving customer production and other business requirements. The first round of the game reveals the deficiencies. Guided by the trainer, the players analyse the causes of delivery problems and low productivity, develop ideas for improvements and then implement these in the second round of the game. The results improve, but do not yet meet customer requirements. There is then a third round, sometimes a fourth.

Target group
The business game is aimed at maintenance, training managers, and employees who are confronted with production control processes in an operation. Anyone wishing to develop a general understanding of the principles and impact of lean thinking.


Syllabus

• Inventory minimisation as an important basis for increased productivity
• The principle of ‘pull’ production control
• Advantages compared to traditional production control methods
• An overview of value stream mapping
• Identification of bottlenecks
• Calculation of Overall Operating Efficiency (OEE)
• Understanding of the impact of Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) 
• Applications of the methods
• The classic pull principle: KANBAN
• Practical implementation of a business game in a model production system
• Continuous Improvement Production (CIP) processes as part of the business game
  

Training outcomes

• Understand the terminology and principles associated with Lean Thinking.
• Understand and be able to describe seven forms of waste in a manufacturing process
• Understand the term Value Stream Mapping (Analysis) and know the principles of how to apply it.
   

Course Duration
Courses are completed in two days and are available in-company or at one of our national training centres.

Price 
£500 open course place, £4,500 in company course.

Customised training
If you are planning to introduce a pull production control method in your company, we recommend running this business game directly in the company.


To discuss this seminar in more detail over a coffee, please contact the business centre on (01604) 667584 or alternatively, e-mail business_centre@festo.com.