Your Role as a Production / Factory Manager

YOUR ROLE AS A PRODUCTION/FACTORY MANAGER

Introduction
In the decade ahead, production and factory managers will be facing more challenges and opportunities that at any time in the past. The role played by them will be very important in the effort to increase worldwide competition. With intensifying competitors from foreign products and services, the performance levels of production and factory managers will effect not just their own career but the economic health of the nation as a whole. The emergence of new markets which are cost effective and quality conscious are some of the main challenges for the future. Environmental changes and changing customer requirements are some other challenging issues for the future production and factory manager. The two primary objectives of the production and factory managers are to ensure that the operations run smoothly at high productivity and at the same time achieve the 7 performance objective of an organization. Many production and factory managers operate without a proper operations management process. This event will assist the production and factory managers to put in place responsibilities of the production and factory manager.

Objective
At the end of this training session, participants will be able to :
1. improve on their production/factory managers skills
2. understand better on their duties and responsibilities as a production/factory manager for the future
3. manage and lead production teams more effectively
4. develop operational strategies for long term success
5. respond more effectively to environmental changes
6. create a production and customer driven culture
7. manage the production performance of their production personnel
8. develop strategies to motivate their production personnel better


Day One
Module 1-WHAT IS PRODUCTION/FACTORY
MANAGEMENT
The transformation model
The macro and micro operation
High volume low variety operation
Achieving organization’s operations objectives
Determining critical success factors
The importance of buffering operations
Goal setting
Production planning and scheduling
Controlling performance
Monitoring results

Module 2- EFFECTIVE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Identifying the right skills, attitude and knowledge
Sufficient supply of raw material and with the right quality and quantity at the right time
Equipment availability
Sufficient budget to meet the requirement
Creating order winners and qualifiers
Total productive maintenance

Module 3- MOTIVATING YOUR SUBORDINATES
Setting goals for subordinates
Monitoring subordinates performance
Linking reward with performance
Delegating and empowering
Building commitment within staffs
Creating self managed team

Module 4- LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Practicing effective leadership styles
Identifying effective styles
Directing, coaching, supporting and delegating staffs
Supervising subordinates
The situational leadership approach
Putting Kaizen in practice
Problem solving and decision making skills

Day Two
Module 5 –PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS
Production report writing
Setting production standards
Identifying causes of disappointments and achievements
Conduction production meeting with subordinates
Managing tools to improve quality – 7QC tools
Measuring the 7 performance objective
Measuring integration level of cross functional activities

Module 6- CREATING SUCCESSION PLAN
Training employees
Identifying potential employee for growth
4 C’s of subordinate
Developing subordinates continuously
Multi tasking / skills
Continuous performance measurement

Module 7- PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT
The importance-performance matrix
Process improvement
Benchmarking
Waste elimination
Creating organizational synergy
Enhancing interdepartmental relationship
Enhancing team work
Managing time effectively

Module 8- OTHER CRITICAL ROLES
Capacity management
Planning and control
Inventory management
Quality management
Failure prevention and control
Job designing


TIME FOR BOTH DAYS - 9.00AM - 5.00PM

Methodology
Theoretical sessions shall be followed by practical and general discussions. Course materials shall be professionally designed for ease of understanding and application

Who Should Attend

Production supervisors. Production executives, production managers, factory managers, technical supervisors and managers


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