Production Planning Basics for Small Manufacturers
Production & Manufacturing Management: leave with a bill of materials, weekly production schedule and an OEE calculation sheet.
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- 1Why production & manufacturing management matters — the common problem: Production runs late because schedules ignore material availability and machine capacity.
- 2Core concepts in plain language: Production planning, production scheduling, material requirements planning, bills of materials, work orders, shop-floor management
- 3Going further: work-in-progress control, line balancing, takt time, cycle time, throughput, production yield
- 4Framework walkthrough: SIPOC, PDCA, Value-Stream Mapping
- 5Practical workflow, built live: A bill of materials, weekly production schedule and an OEE calculation sheet.
- 6How to measure it: Throughput, Cycle time, Utilization, Backlog, Service-level achievement, On-time-in-full delivery
- 7An illustrative case (a fictional example, not a client result), then live Q&A on your own situation
Who it's for
- • Operations managers and supervisors
- • Small-business owners running day-to-day work
- • Admin, supply-chain and quality teams
You'd leave with
- A bill of materials, weekly production schedule and an OEE calculation sheet.
- A working understanding of SIPOC and PDCA
- A short list of measures to track: Throughput, Cycle time, Utilization
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