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Process Improvement

Industrial Workforce Development Solutions and Vocational Training for Your Upskilling Needs

Festo is your trusted partner in Industrial Workforce Development, offering comprehensive Vocational Training programs in Process Improvement. Our courses focus on maintenance strategies and lean production techniques, equipping individuals with the knowledge and skills needed to optimize industrial processes efficiently.

LP131 – SMED - Reducing Setup Time with Single Minute Exchange of Die

This course covers the change optimization of tool and/or production.

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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

LP161 – Analyzing and Designing Value Streams

A value stream analysis and design class teach participants how to map, evaluate, and optimize the flow of materials and information in a process, with the goal of eliminating waste and improving efficiency. It equips learners with tools to redesign value streams for greater productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction.

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

Duration
16-hour course

Content

  • Lean thinking as the basis of recording value streams
  • Preparatory steps for value stream analysis
  • Stages of current value stream analysis
  • Practical implementation of current and future state value stream mapping using a concrete example
  • Fundamental aspects of introducing value stream mapping

At the conclusion of the training, the participant can:

  • Knowledge about the value stream mapping method and capable of applying the technique
  • Record and present the value-added process and be able to use the current state value stream map to identify waste, weak points, and deficits
  • Comprehend the design of stable processes that are both lean and robust, and capable of applying value stream mapping in the development of future processes
  • Identify the factors that need to be considered for implementing value stream mapping within their company

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of lean manufacturing topics

Location
Mason, OH

LP191 - Lean Production – Interactive Workshop Experience

This business workshop uses a model production system to introduce participants to the principles of lean production and how it can help to deliver efficiency and production gains.

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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