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****CPIM Review Course****

“Execution and Control of Operations”

    Start Date:               September 16, 2009
    Nights:                    Wednesdays 5:30 to 7:30 PM
    Duration:                  Approx 8 -12 Weeks
    Location:                  Harris Corp. Aud. 2
    Instructor:                Charles King
    Costs (incld's Study Guide)   Members:         $250
                                   Non-Members:  $285

In an effort to continue providing education and professional growth for our department, the Professional Development Team in conjunction with the Space Coast Chapter of APICS, the Association for Operations Management, will start offering the fourth course toward achieving the professionally recognized CPIM certification (Certified in Production and Inventory Management).  CPIM provides an excellent basis for individuals to increase their knowledge of the important areas of production and inventory management.  The CPIM program consists of five modules:

      Basics of Supply Chain Management
      Master Planning of Resources
      Detailed Scheduling and Planning
      Execution and Control of Operations
      Strategic Management of Resources

In this course "Execution and Control of Operations" candidates focus on the areas of prioritizing and sequencing work, executing work plans and implementing controls, reporting activity results, and providing feedback on performance. The course explains techniques for scheduling and controlling production processes, the execution of quality initiatives and continuous improvement plans, and the control and handling of inventories.

 Objectives:

• Explain how to schedule production and process plans in the manufacturing process, impacts of variation on business systems, and methods for managing production resources.
• Demonstrate the effect of the facility's layout on scheduling and workflow, input and output control techniques, push systems techniques, and scheduling techniques.
• Explain bottleneck management, lead-time control operations and techniques, reporting activities and data collection techniques, cost systems, impact on decision making, and the effect of specifications and standards on product quality.
• Identify report and data collection techniques, manufacturing environments for pull systems, interfaces and data exchanges required to execute a plan, and pull system strengths and weaknesses.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to implement a continuous improvement plan and identify techniques for monitoring and evaluating quality management initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.

The class starts on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm and it is scheduled for 10 weeks at Bldg 2 Auditorium. (Sep. 23 class at 3A auditorium)

If you are interested in signing up for this class, please contact Alberto Escobar at (321) 727-5456, or e-mail at aescobar@harris.com. 

The deadline to sign up for this class is Friday, August 21, 2009.

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