Course Overview
​How do organizations improve productivity? What is productivity to start with? This course presents best practices on how to boost productivity by focusing on quality and cost saving initiatives. In this course we will share best practices and tools from organizations that implemented quality methodologies to improve their processes and achieve faster cycle times, lesser defects and simplified operations. Participants will also learn how to apply these practices in their organizations and understand how to manage change. They will master the skills to leverage the existing culture to their advantage by creating a solid platform and moving the organization into a new mindset. This course is critical for every organization aiming to save cost and become more efficient and productive.

Course Benefits
By attending this MAN's training, delegates will be able to:

• Define productivity and various types of organizational waste
• Identify areas of poor productivity due to poor quality and suggest ways to increase effectiveness and efficiency
• Justify and apply quality improvement tools and techniques in order to improve productivity
• Apply several cost reduction strategies in order to meet changing global, statutory and market conditions
• Recognize and apply measuring initiatives and set targets in order to improve productivity

Target Audience:
Those charged with the responsibilities for manufacturing/production functions.

How will this Training Course be Presented?
Facilitated by an experienced maintenance specialist, our productivity enhancement training course will be conducted as a highly interactive work session (as opposed to lectures), encouraging participants to share their own experiences and apply the training course material to real-life situations.
Each delegate will receive an extensive reference manual, as well as case studies, while worked out solutions will be handed out to the delegates on conclusion of group discussions. Throughout the training course, delegates will be encouraged to identify what they can do to enhance productivity in their organizations.
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Course Outlines

• Definitions
• Productivity limitations
• Process based view
• The 'Muda' factor
• Eight types of waste
• Cost of poor quality
• Quality defined
• Cornerstones of quality
• Barriers to cost reduction programs
• Setting up a cost reduction program
• Resistance psychology in humans
• Techniques to involve employees in your quality improvement tasks
• The role of suggestion schemes
• Productivity improvement project road map
• Tool selection
• Brainstorming
• Pareto
• How-how method
• Why-why method
• Ishikawa fish-bone diagram
• Six Sigma
• Lean principles
• Non value added analysis
• Re-engineering
• The 'Focus' method
• Streamlining the organization and the ESSA method
• SMART practices for increasing productivity
• Cost savings opportunities
• Barriers to a cost cutting program
• Getting commitment to a cost cutting program
• One hundred and forty ideas to cut costs
• Key performance indicators
• Types of measures
• Setting targets for cost reduction
• Benchmarking
• Types of benchmarking
• The balanced scorecard
• The dashboard

​The Certificate
Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course