Employees of the enterprises of Safonov Plant Gidrometpribor JSC, Promaktiv LLC and SEC Software LLC participated in training at the Process Factory of the Regional Competence Center (hereinafter referred to as RCC).
Process Factories is a training and production site where participants gain experience in using lean tools in the real production process. production facilities. The goal of training using lean manufacturing tools is to optimize production processes and achieve maximum financial and economic results.
During three training production shifts, using the example of assembling a gas pressure regulator panel, the training participants, with the help of RCC trainers, got acquainted with the basic principles and tools of lean manufacturing, and also gained practical experience in applying the knowledge gained.
The main focus of the training is on building the flow of single products, for this purpose, employees of enterprises learned to see losses in production processes, find "bottlenecks" and rebalance the working elements of operations.
The flow of single products is a method of organizing production in which the technological chain is divided into cells and operations, between which the product is transferred one piece at a time, and there are no interoperable stocks.
The employees plan to put the knowledge and experience gained into practice, since the flow of single products helps to build production processes in such a way as to increase the reaction rate to the appearance of defects in the flow and minimize financial losses from defects, reduce the time of the process and the appearance of the first finished products, but also, what is important in situations of sudden changes in orders, to prevent overproduction and excess inventory of work-in-progress and quickly adjust to fulfill a new order.
The Process Factory allows you to get acquainted with the main tools used to improve production processes in a playful way and immediately put them into practice. It should be recalled that employees of enterprises in the Smolensk region can be trained at the "Process Factory". For this, it is necessary to become a participant in the federal project "Labor Productivity", which is part of the national project "Efficient and Competitive Economy" by submitting an application on the productivity website.RF.