Process Automation

Target Group
Maintenance technicians, maintenance mechanics and maintenance supervisors

Duration
16-hour course

Content

• Relationship between batch size and setup time
  
• Reducing setup times as the only way to reduce batch sizes and inventories in production
  
• The SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) method and phases
  
• The OTED (One Touch Exchange of Die) method
  
• Constructive solutions for fast setup processes
  
• Influence on production control
  
• Practical implementation of methods in a model plant

At the conclusion of the training, participants:

• Able to recognize waste
  
• Knows the importance of short setup times for fast and economical order processing, flexible production and low inventories
  
• Improve maintenance activities applying the SMED method
  
• Can apply and teach the SMEDC method

Prerequisites
Basic technical knowledge & lean manufacturing topics

Cost
October 3-4, 2024 - $1,450.00 per person

Location
Mason, Ohio

Target Group
Maintenance
Design/Engineering
Trainers
Management

Duration
16-hour course

Content

• Production systems and their influence on maintenance
• Six typical types machine and system loss
• Roles and self-image in maintenance
• Organizational structures for maintenance
• Comparison of maintenance strategies:
• Event-oriented maintenance
• Routine maintenance
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Risk-Based Maintenance (RBM)
• Data for recording maintenance performance
• Examples and practical exercises

At the conclusion of the training, participants:

• Establish sources of loss on machines and systems
• Sees maintenance as a service provider for production
• Evaluate various maintenance strategies and select the appropriate one for the company or various machines
• Implement the company’s maintenance strategies
• Select and collect data for recording maintenance performance

Prerequisites
General knowledge

Location
Mason, Ohio

Target Group
Anyone who functions with responsibility for planning and implementing projects

Duration
16-hour course

Content

• Inventory minimization as an important basis for increased productivity
• The principle of pull productions control
• Advantages compared to conventional production control methods
• Types and functions of different pull production control methods
• Application of methods
• Kanban: the classic pull principle
• SMED: Optimization of setup processes with Single Minute Exchange of Die
• CIP as part of the business game
• Introduction of Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

At the conclusion of the training, participants:

• Understand the principles of lean thinking
• Knows fundamental methods for improvement
• Analyze the causes of delivery problems and low productivity
• Develop and implement ideas for meeting customers

Prerequisites
General knowledge

Location
Mason, Ohio