How To Reduce Total Cycle Time in Your Company

Use time-based competition as one of your most powerful strategic weapons! Drive down the time it takes to develop and deliver new products, dramatically reduce inventory and manufacturing time. Slash the cost of quality, and win back market share. This seminar tells you how top-flight companies are doing it.

How To Reduce Total Cycle Time in Your Company is a new way of tackling the problem. You'll hear about how we got into this situation. You'll hear about time-based competition as a new world-class manufacturing strategy that is making companies fiercely competitive. You'll hear about the companies who are doing it and cutting out 50% of the time to develop and introduce new products. You'll hear how companies have already reduced factory throughput time by 98%.

This 3-day seminar describes how to reduce the total cycle time of the supply chain from customer through warehousing. distribution, assembly, production, and supply, and win customers.

Objectives

This program is designed to introduce your Executive Management staff to the techniques and principles used in reducing cycle times. It is designed to be a hands-on, working session. The objective is to provide senior management with a strong vision and understanding of Time-based Competition and what steps are necessary for a successful company deployment.

This is accomplished by using cycle reduction techniques to outline a cycle reduction initiative for your company. Executives will participate in the same learning environment as their employees to gain a strong understanding of how this program works. Up to 20 executives per seminar may participate in this program.

Why you should consider this program

You've got to streamline your factories, systems and organizations, and open up lines of communication. You've got to break down barriers between departments and put an end to the "we've always done it this way" argument. You've got to get your employees highly involved in assuming new responsibilities if you're going to compete in the global markets in the next decade.

Rockford Consulting Group is sponsoring a comprehensive multi-resource program that includes internet-based tools combined with hands-on, on-site performance consulting with an emphasis on effective, successful company deployments.

This three-day program focuses on providing senior management with a strong vision and understanding of cycle time reduction techniques and provides a blueprint for a successful company deployment.

Course Outline

Day 1

The Emergence of Global Competition


• Japan's Competitive Edge
  
• The Emergence of Strong Foreign Competition
  
• Globalization of Markets in the 1990's
  
• The New Image of World Class Manufacturing
  

Time As A Competitive Weapon

• Physical Perspective of U.S. Factories
  
• Discovery of Japanese Manufacturing Techniques
  
• Relationship of Cycle Time and Cost
  
• The Development of Velocity On The Factory Floor
  
• The Extension of Velocity To The Supply Chain

Day 2

How Work Is Structured


• Functional Decomposition
  
• Use of Matrices
  
• Basic Business Cycles
  
• Order Flow Logistics

Developing The Baseline

• Identification of Source Documents
  
• Mapping Process Flow & Tracking Time
  
• Establishing Base Line Indicators
  
• Identifying Nonvalue-add Activities

Day 3

Review and Application of the Cycle Time Toolchest

• Cellular/Group Technology
  
• Just-In-Time/Visual Signaling
  
• Concurrent Engineering
  
• Information Technology Applications
  
• Single Minute Exchange of Die(SMED)
  
• e-Commerce
  
• Self-Directed Teams
  
• Designing the Organization for Velocity

Making It Happen

• Cultural Issues
  
• Managing Change
  
• Developing an Action Plan
  
• Selecting a Pilot

Program Format

|Site Page|