Workshop Overview
- Key DTO Benefits for Improved Manufacturing Processes
- Recognizing current challenges in conventional manufacturing process analysis and operational costing
- Leveraging and linking familiar manufacturing improvement techniques like Lean Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and Activity-Based Planning (ABP)
- Understanding the impact of downtime, setups and change-overs on available resource capacity, utilizations, and product cost and profitability
- Mapping the role of production management, maintenance, supply chain and SG&A operations to product costing and profitability
- Recognizing how DTO modeling technology standardizes data, understanding, and manufacturing staff engagement
- Utilizing DTO models for scenario-planning to “pre-test” initiatives related to operational efficiency, cost reduction initiatives and/or strategic proposals
- An Eight Step Implementation Methodology for Designing a Manufacturing DTO
- Conduct a strategic assessment to prioritize areas for operational improvement
- Analyze production and supporting resources including financial linkages
- Perform a process analysis to map value streams and activity-based operational flows
- Design integrated DTO model diagrams to define specific data collection requirements
- Collect relevant operational and financial data to populate the DTO model
- Build and validate the DTO model using representative DTO software
- Enhance process/cost understanding to discover business optimization opportunities
- Optimize and plan for the future using “what-if” DTO scenario-planning capabilities
- Initiating, Aligning and Sustaining DTO Models
- Identifying major hurdles to successfully initiating and sustaining DTO models
- Considerations and benefits for deploying a DTO pilot project
- Use case examples of manufacturers who have implemented/benefited from a DTO
Who Should Attend and Why?
This workshop provides foundational training for leveraging operational and financial data to develop highly-visual interactive DTO models for any SME manufacturer. Attending as a team helps realize the true value of using a DTO in a collaborative environment. Although any functional role will benefit, positions typically related to DTO implementations include:
- Production managers focused on resource capacity requirements while decreasing lead times, increasing throughputs, and realizing cost reduction targets
- Continuous Improvement (CI) managers responsible for executing process improvement initiatives and establishing/maintaining an organizational CI culture
- Maintenance and Supply Chain managers responsible for aligning and optimizing the supporting processes for streamlining manufacturing
- Financial managers responsible for resource planning, operational and financial budgeting, and/or costing and profitability analysis
- Strategic managers/planners dealing with the impact of future customer needs, supply chain disruptions, sustainability initiatives, investment decisions, and other business changes
Workshop Cost
Through funding from NGEN, participants can receive up to 50% off the original price of this course
($1,400.00).
- DNS&CME Members: $700.00 + HST per registrant
- DTO Program Applicants: $700.00 + HST per registrant
- Non-DNS Members: $995.00 + HST per registrant
Workshop Schedule
- Session 1 | Monday, January 20, 2025 – 9:30 am - 1 pm AST
- Session 2 | Tuesday, January 21, 2025 – 9:30 am - 1 pm AST
- Session 3 | Wednesday, January 22, 2025 – 9:30 am - 1 pm AST
- Session 4 | Thursday, January 23, 2025 – 9:30 am - 1 pm AST
