Planning game for production with high variability

Gain control over production planning

Many production companies face variable demand, changing lead times and unexpected exceptions. In this workshop, you will experience in a realistic planning game how choices around buffers, capacity, priorities and routing affect production performance. You will discover how to better manage variability and which actions you can translate to your own shop floor. 
 

For whom?

This workshop is aimed at professionals involved in production planning, logistics and operational control in industry.

• Production and operations managers
• Planners and supply chain professionals
• Logistics managers
• Companies looking to improve flow, delivery reliability and lead time
   

Key takeaways

You will learn by doing how planning for variability works in a production environment. You will immediately see which choices make the difference.

• Understand the impact of reserve capacity, time buffers and WIP reduction
• Discover how flexible capacity affects performance
• Learn to steer on throughput, lead time, utilisation and delivery reliability
• Experience how planning decisions lead to better flow and fewer disruptions
• Translate insights into concrete actions for your own organisation
   

Programme

The COOCK PlanVar project

Sirris, Ghent University and Flanders Make are helping companies to plan production environments characterised by high variability as part of the COOCK project ‘Planvar’, with support from Vlaio.