Details of current course dates are available at www.dakacademy.com

Held at Power Panels, award winning factory, participants will be able to see first hand  what it takes to translate Lean, TPM and Six Sigma concepts into business benefits.  The course content will help them to take away plans to do the same back at the workplace.

 

 

Learn how to:

• Assess strengths and weaknesses and actions needed to accelerate progress on your improvement journey
• Develop the management skills, front line practices and team competencies needed to simultaneously deal with day to day operating pressures and the deliver improvement goals.
• Establish new ways of working which change the workplace reality
  
• Raise productivity, process effectiveness and lock in improvement gains
• Improve workplace discipline and standards to secure stable shop floor operation and target the root causes of operational firefighting;
• Engage the workforce with systematic performance improvement to create a vibrant and proactive improvement culture.

Why attend?

• The workshop content is designed to help organisations using Lean, TPM, Six Sigma improvement toolsets to accelerate the gains from them.

• It is also relevant for organisations at the start of their improvement journey who want to establish an effective continuous improvement process.
• The workshop approach combines theory, case studies and hands on practical application including a simple audit framework to identify and build on current strengths and address areas of weakness.
• Take aways include a workbook and electronic versions of presentation material.

Who should attend?

• The workshop is designed to help production managers team leaders and change agents to understand what it takes to deliver award winning levels of performance and to transfer that learning back to their workplace.

Led by

• Dennis McCarthy of DAK Consulting with input from David Fox and the Team at PP Business Systems. 

Dennis has supported Continuous improvement programmes ranging in size from small single site applications to company wide multi site transformation programmes in Europe, USA, India and China.  This has included support for well respected and award winning companies such as 3M, Ford, General Motors, GE, RHM and Dow Corning.  He is also the author of two books on Delivering world class performance.

 

Power Panels are an acknowledged leader in the provision of high value added manufacturing solutions to world class OEMs.  Based in Walsall they employ 200 people involved in the design and manufacture of assemblies used in a wide variety of industry sectors including food processing, packaging, semi conductor machine tool, printing, medical and power generation.  Their achievements have been recognised in recent years through a number of awards including the Best Factory Award and Manufacturing Excellence award.

Day 1

• Introduction
• Improvement Principles and Techniques
• Outcome: Understand the management skills, front line practices and team competencies needed to simultaneously deal with day to day operating pressures and the deliver improvement goals.
• Improvement Programme Audit
• Outcome: identify the current programme strengths and weaknesses and actions needed to accelerate progress on your improvement journey.
• Shaping Culture
• Outcome: Understand the team leader improvement role, the wiring up behind behaviours and how to shape culture.  Know how to develop programmes that engage and empower the members of your team.
• Syndicate Briefing
• Participants work in small teams using to apply improvement tools and techniques to mini improvement projects on the Power Panel shop floor.  The improvement tools have been selected to provide experience of implementing improvements and are applicable to Lean, Six Sigma and TPM principles and techniques.
• CI Toolbox Cycle 1: Programme Management
• Performance measurement, project definition, team mobilisation. Outcome: Know how to capture loss information and engage front line team with delivery of improved performance.

Day 2

• CI Toolbox Cycle 2: Implementing improvements/Stabilise Performance
• Understanding root cause, best practice development, problem prevention, training programme design and delivery.
• Outcome: How to get to root cause, implement improved ways of working, raise standards, stabilise performance and address the causes of operational firefighting.
• CI Toolbox Cycle 3: Focussed Improvement
• Value Stream Mapping, selecting improvement priorities, applying focussed improvement tools.
• Outcome: Know how to apply tools to raise the Quality, Cost and Delivery capabilities of stable systems.

Day 3

• Feedback of mini project outputs
• Delivering Future Potential
• Supporting capital and new product development projects.
• Developing high performance teams.
• Developing your full potential.
• Develop your 90 day action plan
• Review plans and Q&A