Introduction
Material flow and inventory optimization
Two-day live training at the Wieland AG plant in Villingen, Germany
on 21 + 22 November 2023
When optimizing processes in a factory, there is no getting around inventory issues, material flows, throughput times and all the associated optimization tools. At Wieland as a manufacturer of semi-finished products, these topics are of high importance and are driven forward by trained coodinators within the framework of Lean, CIP (Continous Improvement Process) and TPM. The Villingen plant is often a pioneer in the Wieland Group and was named TPM Factory of the Year a few years ago.
In this two-day training on November 21 + 22, 2023, participants will have the opportunity to get to know the factory and learn about the methods and tools for optimizing material flows and inventories in a mix of technical impulses and lively simulation exercises. All topics will be reproduced live in the factory.
Objective
Getting to know control types for material flow and inventory optimization within production with a view to throughput times, inventories, areas and clocking out of operations and their application in practice.
Participants experience the possibilities and influences of the methods directly in the plant and then learn to apply them to their own processes.
Content
- Impulses from the lean methods / toolbox
- Necessities and effect of inventory optimization
- Push and pull principles
- Learning projects and simulations
Experiencing the methods in the live processes at Wieland
- Kanban
- FiFo
- ConWIP
- Workload Control
- Transport routines
Procedure
The training takes place live on site at the Wieland plant in Villingen and is conducted by experienced lean trainers from the Wieland Group.
The mixture of method input, learning exercises and experiencing the implementation in the plant is complemented by the exchange of experiences of the participants from different companies and industries.
