Candidates focus on the areas of prioritizing and sequencing work, executing work plans and implementing controls, reporting activity results, and providing

feedback on performance. The course explains techniques for scheduling and controlling production processes, the execution of quality initiatives and

continuous improvement plans, and the control and handling of inventories.

Major Topics

• Planning, execution, and control overview
• Scheduling production and process operations
• Authorizing, executing, and reporting activities for push systems
• Authorizing, executing, and reporting activities for pull systems
• Communicating customer-supplier information and controlling resources
• Executing quality initiatives, eliminating waste, and implementing ontinuous improvement plans
• Quality management processes
• Evaluating performance and providing feedback

Objectives

• Explain how to schedule production and process plans in the manufacturing process, the impact of variation on business systems, and methods for managing production resources
• Demonstrate the effect of the facility’s layout on scheduling and workflow, input and output control techniques, push system techniques, and scheduling techniques
• Explain bottleneck management, lead-time control operations and techniques, reporting activities and data collection techniques, cost systems, impact on decision making, and the effect of specifications and standards on product quality
• Identify report and data collection techniques, manufacturing environments for pull systems, interfaces and data exchanges required to execute a plan, and pull system strengths and weaknesses
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to implement a continuous improvement plan and identify techniques for monitoring and evaluating quality management initiatives and continuous improvement efforts