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CARE: (Cost Analysis and Reduction Effort) Seminar
This program is designed for: This course is designed for
all levels of maintenance personnel including maintenance workers. Supervisors,
planners, managers, and maintenance engineers can also take it. The course
works best when people from different levels or when people from different
plants take it together. A diversity of opinions and experiences is desired.
The goal of this program is to show you how to set up effective CARE
teams that will identify and reduce waste
This course teaches specific techniques for locating and attacking waste, and
reducing costs of operation. The outcome of the one-day session is a series
of cost reduction projects (one project for every 2-5 participants) ready for
execution. The project will be designed and justified. Some of the specific
benefits include: How to uncover real waste in your operation. Know which
project is the winner among all the waste uncovered. Find the low hanging
fruit. How to design a project from the beginning-middle and to the end.
How to present your ideas to management. Executing project and
getting credit. Prove the Returns on Investment.
Outline
- Techniques for continuous improvement including inputs to maintenance.
- Where to get data to support cost saving plans.
- Brainstorming sessions specifically designed to uncover waste.
- Where to focus attention and where to look for the ‘low hanging fruit’.
- Priority system is introduced to insure actionable projects.
- Groups set priority for each idea based on proprietary measures.
- Groups develop list of projects in priority order
- Forms are offered to help groups refine and write-up one idea
- Rigorous formats are employed to insure projects are thought through, and
different aspects are reviewed.
- How to conduct a cost analysis on a money saving project.
- How to determine ROI (Return on Investment), payback, and develop a metric
to demonstrate success or failure.
- How to get these projects done in the real world.
- Assign management mentor that will
- Provide money that was budgeted
- Run interference, supplies, help, faith, access to assets and resources,
- Whatever else is needed
- How to write success stories
- Pass stories on to management
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