This course aims to explain in detail what is bottleneck analysis along with its types and benefits as well as provide an understanding of how to conduct this analysis. A bottleneck is a point of congestion in a workflow or process that creates a backlog. When part of your system is at maximum capacity, this can impact productivity, costs and relationships with customers and suppliers. Short-term bottlenecks are caused by temporary factors. Usually, they don’t pose a significant problem but they’re unpredictable and impact varies. Long-term bottlenecks are nearly always related to bigger problems in the system or process and cause persistent issues. The test can be conveniently taken from the comfort of one’s home, library, or workplace. Upon successful completion and passing of the test a digital certificate will be issued to validate one’s achievement.
Course Overview
1.What is a Bottleneck on Manufacturing?
a.Short-term vs Long-term Bottlenecks
b.The Importance of identifying a Process Bottleneck
c.How to identify a process bottleneck in 3 steps
2.What is bottleneck analysis?
a.The goals of a bottleneck analysis
b.What to look for in a bottleneck analysis
c.Benefits and Disadvantages of bottleneck analysis
d.Methods of Bottleneck analysis
e.When to use Bottleneck analysis
3.Key tools in bottleneck analysis
a.Bottleneck analysis tools
4.How to conduct Bottleneck Analysis
a.Application of Bottlenecks in Lean and Six Sigma
b.How to Deal with a bottleneck
c.Dealing with bottlenecks: Examples of Solutions
d.Training teams to watch for bottlenecks
5.Conclusion
6.Sources
Course Objective
Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
- Identifying the key bottlenecks in production and managerial processes.
- Collect relevant quantitative data for bottleneck analysis
- Explore possible solutions to address bottlenecks
- Minimize poor-quality products, increase worker efficiency, reduce downtime
Target Audience:
Bottleneck Analysis can be used by anybody who is involved in process improvement such as business analysts, engineers, project managers, advisors, maintenance, facilities and operation
Estimated time to complete:
Open format, self-paced
- Certified Self Paced Online Course