Who should attend?

This course is recommended for persons who will be expected to find opportunities for improvement and make decisions on how to best take advantage of those opportunities. This course also will benefit those who are responsible for implementing recommendations and how available resources will be best utilized. FMEA/OA is for quality, risk, safety, production, maintenance and business issues. Organize your analyses and drill down to find the ones that are costing you valuable revenue.

How long is the training? 2 Days

No matter where our responsibilities lie in our organizations, we are all faced with prioritizing our workload. What makes one task more important than another to complete at this time? Is it because of the urgency of the moment? Is it because it is important to a superior? Is it because it "might" be a higher risk?

Course Agenda: We often times find ourselves prioritizing our tasks because of reactive concerns like the above. We never seem to find the time to work on the opportunities that we know exist and are attainable. We never seem to be able to be PROACTIVE. Students will learn various ways to prioritize what they should be working on, no matter the type of backlog of tasks or events that they face. Students not only learn these techniques, but they will apply them through structured activities for each of the justification tools & techniques presented.

FMEA: The use of probabilistic data to project priorities based on what "may" happen in the future. Such conclusions will be drawn and the probability of occurrence of certain events and their subjective severities if they were to occur. Viewing events from these parameters allows us to project the impact of criticalities of these events to our operations and organizations.

Opportunity Analysis: The use of historical data to determine the 20% or less of the events that are costing the organization 80% of its losses or risk. In this practical technique, events that have occurred are evaluated based on how often they occur and the impact on the organization each time they occur. This allows the chronic events in our organization an equal perspective against the sporadic events that seem to take priority at the time they occur. Students will be surprised to learn that their most costly events are the ones that are "accepted as a cost of doing business"! This technique provides a business justification as to why one should be working on one event, versus the political failure-of-the-day.