Managing a Molding Plant is a 2-day seminar teaching the business of managing a molding plant.
This Course Is For: Mid-level managers such as Molding Managers, Production Managers, Supervisors, and anyone else with production and quality responsibilities.
Course Summary: The primary focus is on identifying, monitoring and controlling the cost drivers of an injection molding plant. Cost drivers are those items which dictate how much profit is made.
Managers of molding plants are swamped daily with a myriad of issues, many of the “immediate” variety. Those daily fires can obscure the important metrics by which success will be measured and achieved.
A sampling of the important topics to be covered are:
What cost drivers should I be monitoring?
- Effective throughput
- What does it mean?
- How is it monitored?
- What reports have the most meaning to the company’s success?
- Production data collection tools
- Material conservation
- Labor content
- Material content
- Machine and mold maintenance
- Establishing machine rates
- Quoting plastic parts
- Daily report summary
- Earnings estimator
- Basic understanding of the injection molding process
- Teambuilding
- Basic Lean Manufacturing for a “Job Shop Environment”
Cost to attend: $1,995*
*Discounts available: Any company sending multiple attendees from one company to the same class in 2012 is eligible for $100 off for every additional person from the company who attends |
