• Initiate lean manufacturing practices to lower costs and do more with less
• Reduce manufacturing cycle times while improving quality
• Quickly and accurately assess a plant, service, or operation
• Measure performance by financial and nonfinancial standards
• Increase worker satisfaction and reduce liability by encouraging safe environments and practices
• Align manufacturing and operations with other business functions

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Who Should Attend Leadership in Plant Operations

The Leadership in Plant Operations program has been designed to serve the development needs of manufacturing and operations managers at the plant management level, as well as those who plan to move up to the plant manager level within the next several years. This program provides content to help managers make the transition from focusing on shop floor and technical issues to thinking more strategically about the business. Participants are typically line or staff managers, with five to ten years of manufacturing or operations-related experience, who are being groomed for higher-level postions within their company's supply chain.

The Leadership in Plant Operations program has two overriding goals:

• Provide participants with tools and concepts that they can use today to improve their current operations
• Broaden their perspectives and expand their capabilities to help them prepare for their next assignment

Corporate and Manufacturing Strategy

• Industry-competitive analysis
• Porter's Five Forces Model
• Aligning functional and corporate strategies
• Using technology as a competitive weapon
• Using lean as a competitive weapon

Lean Manufacturing

• The philosophy and foundation of "lean"
• Tools and practices, and how to use them
  - value stream mapping
  - total quality/six sigma
  - kanban
  - standardized work
  - total productive maintenance
• How to leverage the supply chain

Rapid Plant Assessment

• Quickly read and rate a plant or service operation
• Estimate cost savings, throughput, flow times, and inventory levels
• Prioritize change opportunities
• Initiate lean transformation

Performance Measurement

• Financial and nonfinancial performance measures
• Traditional vs. lean-supportive measures
• Activity-based costing--the concepts and application
• The Balanced Scorecard as an approach and a tool
• Differences between aggregate measures such as ROA and EVA and their importance

Legal Dimensions in Manufacturing Today

• Which elements of the law are of crucial importance in operations
• Identifying and minimizing key liability risk factors
• Encouraging safe and open environments that attract outstanding workers while protecting them and the firm
• Understanding the link between quality, ethics and compliance

Leadership and Change in a Manufacturing Environment

• Strategic visioning--making operations a proactive element in your corporate strategy
• How to effectively motivate and manage change
• How to inspire commitment
• How to develop the leader in you

The program fee includes tuition, instructional materials, hotel accommodations, continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks each day, and selected dinners. Fee is payable in advance in US dollars and is subject to change. See our Cancellation, Transfer and Substitution Policy