In
an environment of increasing international competition where countries
with lower production costs, quickly catch up technologically, new
thinking is required in order to meet the competition. Efficient
organization and leadership is more difficult to copy than technology. A
successful way of meeting the increasing competition can thus be to focus
the efforts on adapting the organization for maximal utilization of
existing technology and, faster than the competitors, being able to
continuously introduce and make use of new technology. This course shows
how organizational efforts can improve the precondition for continuous
optimization of the enterprise operations. This course also highlights the
costs of absent or slow introduction of new technology.
Day
1
Definitions
of what optimization is, Maximization, Minimization, target goals,
delimitations, etc. How is continuous optimization different from static
optimization.
What
are the preconditions, necessary for successful industrial optimization:
Goal setting, Current situation analysis, System analysis, Organizational
and Staff preconditions.
Day
2
How
is suboptimization avoided: Optimization of subsystems in sync with
enterprise optimization.
How
is information from one subsystem used in another subsystem: Sales
info-Planning info-Process info-Raw material info.
Day
3
What
can optimization projects result in: Cost reductions vs increasing
profits, Changes for the staff, Costs for absent optimization.
How
are optimization projects specified: Specification examples.
