Course Materials
Pre-course reading material
Pre course reading material - “The Plan is King!”
Online training advice and software use guide
Presentation day 1 | Plan-led introduction, capacity and load generation, input planning and LoW generation
Presentation day 2 | Scheduling, constraint management, planning cycle and governance, defect management, productivity and production control
Further Reading
Operations Management; Nigel Slack, Alistair Brandon Jones and, Robert Johnston. (Pearson - ISBN 978-0-273-77620-8)
The Basics of Process Mapping, 2nd edn; Damelio, R. (2011) (Productivity Press, New York. - ISBN 9781563273766) A practitioner book that is both very comprehensive and up-to-date.
Maintenance Planning, Coordination and Scheduling. Second Edition; Don Nyman and Joel Levitt (Industrial Press New ISBN ISBN 978-0-8311-3418-1) A really good read with good examples applicable to both rail and aviation. Written in American English.
Key Performance Indicators, 2nd edition; David Parmenter (Wiley publishing ISBN978-0-470-54515-7) Quite a heavy read, but for helping one set up KPI that truly measure across the business some very good chapters.
The Goal; Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox. (Gower Publishing ISBN 978-0-566-08665-6) Where the Theory of Constraints emerged!