Foreman training

1. day

Foreman’s role

• Requirements regarding the leaders work
• Daily challenges against the leaders 
• Who is a good leader? 
• Leaders’ tasks

Management elements

-    Management cycle (PDCA) 

• Maintenance
• Improvement

-    Management functions

Planning

• Choice of goals
• Defining goals (SMART goals)
• Defining priorities
• Breakdown and representation of organizational goals, Target agreements
• Feasibility and breakdown of goals (5W1H)
• Definition and review of plans

Organization

• Conditions of efficient work
• Organization’s tasks
• Organizational forms, principles of designing organization 
• Task – Responsibility – Limit of power – Accountability
• Clear definition and breakdown of tasks (5W 1H) 
• Delegation, task release  
• Work organizational principles
• Define and ensure the essential conditions pf work
• Process approach, process organization
• Time management

2. day

Control 

• Control function
• Measurement
• Feedback’s role
• Examination and evaluation
• Visual control 
• Performance evaluation, control

Personal leadership

• Leaders style
• Management decisions (Decision matrix)
• What is a good leader?
• Motivation, encouraging employees 
• Coaching
• Cooperation with partner departments
• Communication
• Conflict management
• Team work, team leading
• On the job training  
• Change management

3. day

Productivity development

• Value-added approach
• Productivity-increasing factors
• Dimensions of productivity development (PQCDSM)

Productivity development methods

• KAIZEN, Kaizen principles
• Suggestion system
• QCC – quality circles, team work
• TQC, TQM 
• JIT 
• TPM 
• 5S

5S – Develop and maintain a quality working environment 

• S elements 
• Successful 5S implementation 

Exploring development opportunities in working environment

• 3 MU (Unnaturalness – Unevenness – Losses) 
• PQCDSM method
• 4M + 4M method

4. day

Continuous improvement (quality development methods)

• Continuous improvement
• PDCA cycle
• Standards, standard work
• Data collection, statistics, measurement
• Registration - Correction - Prevention 

Problem solving and quality improvement

• 7 steps of problem solving
• Data collection, statistics (frequency detection, data collection sheets, scatter diagram, histograms)
• FMEA, defect prevention
• 7 QC tools (7 quality tool) 
• Choice of solution and implementation
• Quality development, „good at first” quality

Loss reduction

• Loss reduction methods (line balancing, spaghetti diagram, cycle time analysis)
• 7 MUDA

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