Professional Development Meeting-North

Evening Topic :Teach Your Shop Floor the P.O.L.C.A.

Speaker : Rick Cathers

Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Monroe, NJ
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Date : 03/21/12

Registration: 5:30 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:45 PM

Cost includes dinner:

  • $30 member
  • $35 non member
  • $20 student

Payment methods:

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Teach Your Shop Floor the P.O.L.C.A.

If you work in a process/job shop environment most of your working hours are spent figuring out what job to work on next at each workcenter to avoid angering the least number of customers by missing the date you promised to deliver their order. In the never ending quest to find the “holy grail” of shop floor capacity management you’ve tried technology (MRP, ERP, Bar-coding, etc.), status meetings (weekly, daily, hourly), tagging “hot jobs” (red, green, yellow, etc), but nothing gets the problem under control for very long.

This case study describes how a manufacturer of components for the medical device industry implemented a part of Rajan Suri’s Quick Response Manufacturing to give control of the flow of material through their shop floor to the employees at each work center. We’ll look at what drove this change. The prerequisites that had to be met before the implementation could begin. How the change was successfully implemented. And finally, we will look at the improvements that were achieved.

Who should attend

  • Planners struggling to manage the flow  of material through the shop floor
  • Supply Chain managers looking to improve on-time delivery and productivity
  • Company leaders looking for tools to improve their organizations competitiveness

What you will learn

  • A new way to control the flow of material in a job shop/process environment
  • Proven techniques for getting shop floor supervisors to “buy-in” to P.O.L.C.A.
  • Roadmap for successfully implementing P.O.L.C.A. on the shop floor

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Rick Cathers, CPIM, Jonah

Rick Cathers is a Change Master and president of MicroCraft, The Knowledge Company. He works with domestic and international clients to identify process problems, develop solutions, implement organizational change and improve financial results. He specializes in process modeling, technology selection, performance measurement development, and quality improvement projects.

Rick actively works to spread the APICS Body of Knowledge. For over 20 years, he has taught CPIM certification review courses. In addition, he develops customized education programs for companies based on these courses. These programs are geared to solve specific educational needs that will help a company to achieve its business objectives. Rick also works with individuals to improve their training and public speaking skills as a Train-the-Trainer and Learning Dynamics for Instructors teacher.

Rick is an active member of APICS. A featured speaker at National and International conferences, seminars and chapter professional development meetings. He is an Adjunct Professor at Camden County College.


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