Executive masterclass in Operations, Manufacturing & Plant Management
Stanwick Academy

Executive masterclass in Operations, Manufacturing & Plant Management

Manufacturing companies in Belgium and Europe face a series of complex challenges that jeopardise long-term competitiveness and survival.
Energy costs and raw material prices rise and are putting pressure on margins. The globalisation is creating intense competition from low-cost countries. Labour market tightness makes attracting and retaining qualified staff more challenging, leadership becomes crucial.
Besides, the need to innovate and digitise is becoming more urgent, new standards for efficiency and quality are being set.
As a manager and leader, you need to react to these changes and guide your teams through these complex transformations.
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Approach

  • The training consists of 3 modules of 2 days
  • After 3 months there is a return day
  • A combination of theoretical knowledge and practical exercises, including practical testimonials and company visits
  • The programme offers a unique setting, allowing you to not only learn from the experts, but also share valuable experiences and best practices with your peers
  • An exclusive mix of learning, networking and personal coaching 
  • This mini-MBA will ensure you learn applicable insights and tools 

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What can you expect 

  • Setting up a future strategy for the plant and production based on a changing context
  • Gain insight into the use of Operational Excellence to realise your strategy
  • Set up and follow up of a transformation program efficiently
  • Setting up an efficient measurement system and KPIs, supported by the organisation
  • Role of supporting services
  • Making the organisation future-proof
  • Dealing with continuous change
  • Communicating with stakeholders (including unions)
  • Exchange experiences between participants and learn from each other

Programme

Day 1: Future strategy for the plant

  • Types of strategy
  • Process of drafting operational strategy - how to proceed
  • Implementation/deployment of the strategy
  • Responsibilities

Day 2: Transformation program for continuous improvement

  • Setting up priorities in improvement projects
  • Setting up project management and PMO organisation
  • Different roles in a transformation program
  • How to guarantee results and critical success conditions

Day 3 & 4: Operational Excellence with practical testimonials

  • Challenges within operations
  • Essential measurements
  • Improvement tools within OPEX: Lean, Six Sigma
  • Role of supporting services: QA, maintenance, planning
  • Integrating supporting services
  • Automation and digitisation
  • Impact of OPEX and CAPEX on EBITDA

Day 5: An efficient measurement and management system with a practical testimonial

  • Defining appropriate KPIs 
  • How to deploy them in the organisation
  • Obeya as a resource within the organisation 
  • Setting up a dashboard (performance management system)

Day 6: Future-proofing the organisation and realising change as a leader 

  • Where does the current organisation stand
  • Possible organisational forms: self-managing teams, lean cells
  • What is the role of the manager and key people in a transformation
  • Getting the organisation involved and creating ownership

Day 7: Return day

  • Responding to participants' questions and discussing specific topics in depth:
  • Strategy development and implementation
  • Improvement projects and transformation
  • Operational Excellence and improvement tools
  • Supporting services and KPIs
  • Company visit at a World Class company

Testimonials

"The approach Stanwick developed for implementing Performance Management is practical, powerful, realistic and very respectful of what lives on the shop floor. Collaboration, between teams and people, during and after implementation are central and secure sustainable practices that drive continuous improvement!"

Participant

"Stanwick's strength is that they also thoroughly work out the "behavioural component" of projects. You notice this not only in the content of the training, but also in the cooperation. The trainers we work with know very well how to sense exactly what the client needs and when. Once the needs are clear, they create a tailor-made and appropriate training. The special rapport with us as customers, creates a partnership for the future. The origin story of "LEAN" around those aircraft, can still fascinate and retell everyone who was in the training."

Participant

"If statistics were explained in the same practical way in our school study, more people would deal with data more professionally."
"A course that I hated at the university suddenly becomes a passion and my most important tool for process improvement."
"Unbelievable how ignorant and clumsy we dealt with data before this training."
"It is unbelievable how we can better understand and make our process easier to understand with a very limited number of tests (Design of Experiments)."
"The pallet of tools provided now allows us to find the causes and find solutions for practically all problems."
"The tools provided in the Green Belt are now also much clearer to us."
"The importance of statistical process control is seriously underestimated and it is not understandable that it will no longer be applied."

Participant

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"I learned a lot to work with effectively."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."

Participant

"Strong interaction with own examples from the group."
"One of the better trainings that I have already attended. Concrete and useful tips."
"Very interesting training as a capstone for tackling projects."
"I am very happy that I took the course because it really adds value to my ongoing projects."
"Theory becomes very practical by working with actual projects."

Participant

"A course that I hated at the university suddenly becomes a passion and my most important tool for process improvement."

Participant

"The pallet of tools provided now allows us to find the causes and find solutions for practically all problems."

Participant

"The tools provided in the Green Belt are now also much clearer to us."

Participant

"Unbelievable how ignorant and clumsy we dealt with data before this training."

Participant

"It is unbelievable how we can better understand and make our process easier to understand with a very limited number of tests (Design of Experiments)."

Participant

"If statistics were explained in the same practical way in our school study, more people would deal with data more professionally."

Participant

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"I learned a lot to work with effectively."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."

Participant

"The importance of statistical process control is seriously underestimated and it is not understandable that it will no longer be applied."

Participant

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"I learned a lot to work with effectively."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."

Participant

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"I learned a lot to work with effectively."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."

Participant

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"I learned a lot to work with effectively."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“Within our organisation we are convinced that the principles of Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement form the basis to understand and tackle performance losses. To be able to translate this conviction into practical improvement projects, we turned to Stanwick because they were able to provide training specifically tailored to our business. For each element of a Lean Production System, Stanwick could provide very concrete and recognisable examples to clarify the theory. As a result, 8 participants from different departments, with new insights and a lot of enthusiasm, have successfully completed a Lean Green Belt Project. During this training and during the implementation of the projects, the participants were forced to look in a different way at the organisation and processes within their specific department and the link to other departments. We now see a close team that has become stronger in recognising losses and in identifying flows within manufacturing. Through this approach, improvements have been made to processes that would otherwise not have been questioned. We can therefore demonstrate that this training has more than exceeded the investment. It is now up to us to make this improvement culture grow further in our company."

Participant

“Within our organisation we are convinced that the principles of Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement form the basis to understand and tackle performance losses. To be able to translate this conviction into practical improvement projects, we turned to Stanwick because they were able to provide training specifically tailored to our business. For each element of a Lean Production System, Stanwick could provide very concrete and recognisable examples to clarify the theory. As a result, 8 participants from different departments, with new insights and a lot of enthusiasm, have successfully completed a Lean Green Belt Project. During this training and during the implementation of the projects, the participants were forced to look in a different way at the organisation and processes within their specific department and the link to other departments. We now see a close team that has become stronger in recognising losses and in identifying flows within manufacturing. Through this approach, improvements have been made to processes that would otherwise not have been questioned. We can therefore demonstrate that this training has more than exceeded the investment. It is now up to us to make this improvement culture grow further in our company."

"Stanwick's strength is that they also thoroughly work out the "behavioural component" of projects. You notice this not only in the content of the training, but also in the cooperation. The trainers we work with know very well how to sense exactly what the client needs and when. Once the needs are clear, they create a tailor-made and appropriate training. The special rapport with us as customers, creates a partnership for the future. The origin story of "LEAN" around those aircraft, can still fascinate and retell everyone who was in the training."

Participant

"After an introductory game to immerse everyone in the Obeya mindset and the working groups setting the right KPIs, we were ready to really get started. Obeya has since been rolled out at various levels across almost the entire organisation and we clearly see the added value."

Participant

"After an introductory game to immerse everyone in the Obeya mindset and the working groups setting the right KPIs, we were ready to really get started. Obeya has since been rolled out at various levels across almost the entire organisation and we clearly see the added value."

Participant

"Our team workshop was really illuminating and enjoyable."

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"Very interesting and enriching experience!"

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‘In an interactive and playful way, you learn very clearly the fundamentals of Obeya’
‘Strong interaction with own examples from the group.’
‘Very interesting training as a capstone to get started with Obeya.’
‘I am very glad I took the course because it really adds value to my ongoing projects.’
‘Theory becomes very practical by working with real projects.’

Participant

‘In an interactive and playful way, you learn very clearly the fundamentals of Obeya’
‘Strong interaction with own examples from the group.’
‘Very interesting training as a capstone to get started with Obeya.’
‘I am very glad I took the course because it really adds value to my ongoing projects.’
‘Theory becomes very practical by working with real projects.’

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"The Stanwick team has provided my HR team with excellent training, coaching and serious challenges in the analysis of our HR processes. This way, the HR team can take further steps in realising its mission to make competent, performing and committed personnel available to our customer in an efficient and customer-oriented way."

Participant

"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. Really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."
"I have learned a lot to work with effectively."

-

‘In an interactive and playful way, you learn very clearly the fundamentals of Obeya’
‘Strong interaction with own examples from the group.’
‘Very interesting training as a capstone to get started with Obeya.’
‘I am very glad I took the course because it really adds value to my ongoing projects.’
‘Theory becomes very practical by working with real projects.’

Participant

‘In an interactive and playful way, you learn very clearly the fundamentals of Obeya’
‘Strong interaction with own examples from the group.’
‘Very interesting training as a capstone to get started with Obeya.’
‘I am very glad I took the course because it really adds value to my ongoing projects.’
‘Theory becomes very practical by working with real projects.’

-

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. Really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."
"I have learned a lot to work with effectively."

Participant

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3 x 2 days

location

Hybride

level

Advanced

contact

info@stanwick.be

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