Apply flexible production and manpower systems to support improvement in food and drink operations
Overview
This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed to apply the principles and practices of flexible production and manpower systems as part of your organisation's drive to increase the effectiveness and productivity of food and drink operations. This is important in the achievement of excellence and the success of manufacture, processing and supply across the food and drink supply chain.
You will need to apply and understand the principles and procedures for creating flexible production and manpower systems within improvement projects. You will need to identify improvement opportunities and waste control to achieve Takt time and flow processing. You will need to produce visual representations and implement a visually controlled system. This typically includes areas like standard work in progress, consignment stocks, part routers, physical control signals, number of people required and their flexibility, and the rules and disciplines of the pull system. You will need to know how to comply with your company policy for improvement, take responsibility for your actions, and refer any issues outside of the limit of your authority to others.
This standard is for you if you work in food and drink operations including, manufacturing, processing, packing or supply chain activities. You may have responsibilities for aspects of organisational improvement in a team leadership or management role.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- the organisation's improvement vision, strategy, objectives and the reasons for implementation of improvement programmes
- how the health, safety and hygiene requirements of a work area can influence improvement activities
- what defines a flexible production and manpower system
- the benefits of a flexible production and manpower system within food and drink operations
- the meaning of `level schedules'
- load and capacity diagrams
- Takt time, and how this is calculated
- the term standard work in progress
- the application of visually controlled systems and signals, based on the demand of subsequent processes
- the application of skills matrices
- the application of consignment stocking
- the process of working practice simplification and the reduction of human error risk
- the consequences of introducing a new improved part/process/material router
- how root cause analysis can support problem solving
- how waste can be reduced through the application of flexible production and manpower systems
- equipment effectiveness through stabilisation and optimisation
- asset care/best practice effectiveness review
- robust routine asset care and operation
- the appropriate techniques that provide value to the customer including, push-pull systems, single piece flow, just in time, Kanban, autonomation
- the techniques used to visually communicate the work done
- the layout of an effective workplace
- levels of authority linked to problem resolution
- how to report and present improvements