This course contains the use of artificial intelligence

A busy factory can still miss the plan.

Put 50+ working tools behind a 90-day plan for OEE, delivery and the people running each shift.

One report says the line is available. Another blames quality. The next shift inherits an unresolved warning, while maintenance and production compete for the same window. The director spends the day resolving arguments about numbers before the real work can begin.

The change is a plant with a readable baseline, a capacity-backed schedule and a visible next check. A shift handover carries its open conditions forward. A monthly budget discussion separates volume from spending. The ninety-day track is a plan for improvement, not a guarantee of higher OEE or on-time delivery.

Who is teaching

Mike is an academy founder and strategy lead with 20 years in HR and a PHRi credential. His strongest contribution is people: shift leaders, workplace learning, safety culture, management rhythm and budget discipline. Technical methods use published references and a fictional plant; the examples are not claims of personal factory-management experience.

What is inside: 51 unique working parts

The 50+ headline comes from 51 distinct parts in eight interactive HTML files. Sixteen downloads contain the eight lecture presentations as PDFs and the eight HTML files. Repeated slide demonstrations and the file containers do not add to the tool count.

• Templates and working records (15): SQDC baseline, local plant mandate, twelve-week MPS, shift handover.
• Calculations and reconciliations (19): work-center capacity, OEE factors, failure-cost ledger, flexible budget, shift coverage.
• Checklists and reviews (9): readiness checks, lot decision tree, 8D review, critical-control verification, asset criticality.
• Conversation banks (2): ship-or-hold wording, stop-work responses, forklift-report follow-through.
• AI draft reviews (6): ERP planning recommendation, MES downtime summary, customer 8D questions, sensor and CMMS forecast, shift summary.

The eight working files are Plant Takeover, Capacity and MPS, OEE and Loss Map, COPQ and 8D Review, Critical Control Verification, Maintenance Plan, Plant Budget and Plant Dashboard.

OEE, Six Big Losses, SMED, 8D, preventive and predictive maintenance, and tier 1–3 are explained within those working parts. They are not added again as extra tools.

One plant, eight complete operating problems

Willowkeel Thermal Systems is a fictional US heat-pump manufacturer growing from an actual 150-person baseline toward a conditional 400-person plan after funding. The story follows one plant through takeover, constrained capacity, conflicting downtime reports, a customer complaint, critical safety controls, maintenance planning, monthly expense reconciliation and a second-shift readiness review. All example numbers are illustrative, not market benchmarks. Each lecture supplies its own context and required figures, so it also stands alone.

• Takeover and capacity (11 tools): SQDC baseline, floor-walk route, ninety-day improvement track, rough-cut check, MPS.
• OEE and quality (13 tools): loss bridge, downtime Pareto, changeover trial, lot decision tree, 8D review.
• Safety and maintenance (13 tools): safety walk, critical-control verification, asset criticality, ready backlog, weekly maintenance calendar.
• Budget and shifts (14 tools): standard unit cost, variance bridge, qualified availability, handover record, plant dashboard.

Digital operations with a human check

ERP, MES, CMMS and dashboards form one data route. SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provide ERP context; Siemens Opcenter provides an MES example; Fiix, UpKeep and MaintainX provide CMMS context. The planning and MES screens use generic illustrations. The narrow Fiix demonstration uses mockups rebuilt from public documentation; real interfaces and workflows may differ. There is no vendor affiliation or promise of system configuration training.

AI drafts downtime analysis, shift summaries, forecast claims and 8D questions. The director checks source records, periods, units, missing evidence and proposed causes. Shipment, restart, spending and staffing remain human decisions. Real plant, customer or worker data requires company policy and an approved agreement before use in public AI services.

The course stays at one-site management level. It does not replace company-wide S&OP, a quality-management system, specialist maintenance procedures or local safety requirements. OSHA references support leadership questions; ISO 45001 is further study, not a clause-by-clause course. Check local requirements with your competent safety and compliance team.

What is included

• Eight English video lectures, each with its own practical assignment and self-check.
• Sixteen downloadable resources: eight slide PDFs and eight interactive HTML files.
• Fifty-one working parts with fictional examples, browser saving, text copying and Print/PDF.
• A numerical model for the supplied example and supported input changes; other plants require validated model adaptation. Written records can be adapted to your plant.
• Lifetime access to the course materials and instructor support in Q&A.

Every unrecorded handover leaves the next shift reconstructing the situation. Start with one open issue and its source record, then bring the first completed artifact to your next plant review. Enroll now and start your first lesson today.