Technical director of production - free course from the Russian School of Management, training, date of November 30, 2023.

Practical techniques for developing a new product in conditions of shortage of funds, personnel, and certainty
• Minimum viable product.
• Design methods for developing new products.
• Startup and its main components when developing new products.
• Value proposition: the main tools used to develop it.
• Review of types of customer needs analysis.

• Project and product life cycle. Project phases.
• Problem solving techniques. Their use in the release of new products.
• 13 principles of lean development.
• Theory of solving inventive problems. Its application in the development of new products.
• A little about synectics. Its application in the development of new products.

Methods for reducing costs and costs. Reducing production losses
• Cost and its components. Basic definitions.
• Ways to reduce costs.
• Functional and cost analysis.
• 7 types of losses on the way to reducing costs.
• Reducing costs for raw materials and supplies.
• Tools for solving problems on the way to reducing costs.
• Effective purchasing and inventory management.
• Effective management of Maintenance and Repairs (MRO).
• Optimization of staff numbers and labor costs.
• 7 legal ways to reduce personnel costs.

Classic or “planned” approach to projects – from charter to reports
• 5-phase project life cycle. Participants and their roles according to PMBoK.
• Effective project launch. Stakeholder requirements and Charter.
• Project content. Hierarchical work structure (WBS).
• Calculation of task durations and project schedules.
• Calculation of the cost of work and the project budget.
• Risk identification and mitigation.
• Project execution management.
• Control of project deadlines, budget and content.
• Change management system.
• Project reporting. Project closure and lessons learned.

Production Capacity Management
• Production capacity. Basic definitions.
• Methods for calculating production capacity.
• Methods for calculating equipment requirements.
• Management methods when changing production capacities.
• Losses and their impact on production capacity.
• Throughput from the Theory of Constraints (TOS) point of view.
• Audit of production facilities. The impact of equipment on production capacity.
• Organization of scheduled preventive maintenance, repairs based on failures and diagnostics.
• Increasing the efficiency of equipment maintained on TPM principles.
• Selection and design of new efficient equipment.

Lean Manufacturing Principles and Techniques
• Introduction to lean manufacturing.
• Pyramid: 14 Toyota principles.
• Profit and loss reduction.
• 7 types of losses.
• Value stream mapping.
• 5S as a tool for effective workplace organization.
• Standardization of operations (workplaces).
• Total Maintenance (TPM).
• Quick changeover (SMED).
• Problem solving tools.