Production management - free course from the Russian School of Management, training, date: December 6, 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.
• 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.
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• 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 and cost analysis.
• 7 types of losses on the way to reducing costs.
• Reducing costs for raw materials and materials.
• 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.