School of Modern Manufacturing - free course from the Russian School of Management, training, date: December 6, 2023.

Ph.D., Associate Professor. Expert in the development of production systems, quality management. Has experience in managing lean manufacturing projects.

Ph.D., Associate Professor DGQ. An expert on industry standards in the field of quality, author of more than 70 scientific publications and 7 patents for inventions.

Ph.D., business coach, strategic management consultant. Development and implementation of corporate training programs.

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.
• A 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 expenses. Reducing production losses

• Cost and its components. Basic definitions.
• Ways to reduce costs.
• Functional 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.

Production planning and control

• Operational management.
• Operational planning: objectives, principles, problems.
• Operational control.
• Operational analysis. Production analysis and its varieties.
• Production planning models.
• Operational regulation.
• Best modern practices in the process of operational control and planning.
• Automatic and automated production control systems.
• Automation of the production dispatch control system.
• Autonomous cell.

Production Capacity Management

• Production capacity. Basic definitions.
• Methods for calculating production capacity.
• Methods for calculating equipment requirements.
• Management methods when changing production capacity.
• Losses and their impact on production capacity.
• Throughput from the point of view of the Theory of Constraints of Systems (TOS).
• Audit of production facilities. The impact of equipment on production capacity.
• Organization of scheduled preventative repairs, repairs based on failures and diagnostics.
• Increasing the efficiency of equipment maintained using 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.

Organizational Change Management

• Mistakes and success factors of organizational change.
• Basic change management models.
• Vision of the future, values ​​and goals of change.
• Analysis of problems and goals of change.
• Organizational diagnostics.
• Diagnosis of the situation of change.
• Strategies for change.
• Resistance to change.
• Metaphors and frames of change.
• Team and leadership in change management.

Lean Product Development

• The machine that changed the world.
• 13 principles of the lean new product development model.
• How to improve the quality of development.
• How to increase the speed of bringing products or services to market.
• How to increase the number of new products/services.

Tools for increasing workplace efficiency

• The workplace as part of the production process and an element of the production system.
• The connection between a rational work environment and the effectiveness of the organization as a whole.
• The workplace as a flow restriction. Applying the five steps of the Theory of Constraints to find the focus of attention in a flow.
• Lean manufacturing and workplace organization.
• 5S methodology as a tool for rational organization of the work environment.
• Rapid changeover technique - SMED.

Process design and diagnostics

• Reasons for the emergence of the process approach.
• Good practices of the process approach.
• Key characteristics of process output. Identification measurement and analysis.
• Sources of risks inherent in the process and its key operations.
• Reasons for failure of key process operations.
• Key operations management.
• Risk-based approach for the Marketing process and the Purchasing process. Examples.

Problem Solving Process (PSP)

• The Problem Solving Process and the PDCA Cycle. Introduction and examples.
• Good practices (international standards and guidelines) and types of problem solving process. Implementation problems.

Practice of implementing the process approach and international standards. Process audit

• Documenting information about processes.
• Sequence of implementation of QMS processes according to the requirements of ISO 9001:2015.
• Internal audit of the effectiveness of processes and management systems. What is an audit?
• What is a management system.
• Understanding the text of ISO 9001. Relationship between objective evidence and ISO 9001 requirements.
• What should be checked during the process and how? ISO 19011:2021. Guidelines for auditing management systems.
• Audit program.
• Conducting an audit.
• Competence of auditors. Psychological aspects of audit.