Production Control Principles and Practices
  • CODE : MGOZ-0003
  • Duration : 75 Minutes
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Michael W. Gozzo is President and Founder of THE TOTAL BUSINESS CONSULTING GROUP, LLC., a firm specializing in counseling and education of all levels of management in the areas of Supply Chain, Lean Manufacturing, Demand Flow Technology, Just-In-Time, ISO Certification, Total Quality Control, Manufacturing Systems Implementation, Inventory Control and Production/Operations Management.

His involvement with Silicon Valley leaders in Supply Chain Management, Lean Manufacturing practices, Procurement Application and ISO include Cisco, Infineon, Sunrise Telecom, PerkinElmer, Philips Semi-conductor and SanDisk and Intuitive Surgical as well as smaller enterprises.

Mike Gozzo went to Germany to train operational personnel at Lufthansa Air Cargo.  He has been associated with Lean practices: pull systems, quick change, 5-S, VMI, cell design and others.

Mike has traveled and worked extensively in Canada, England, Hong Kong, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Indonesia,

Malaysia, South Africa, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman and Taiwan.

He has an Executive Program Masters’ Degree (MBA) from the University of New Haven, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Connecticut.

He is certified as CPIM & CSCP by the Association of Operations Management (APICS). ISO Assessor Training and registration per IQA Standards (#QM1344/17)

Mr. Gozzo is the co-author of "Made In America - The Total Business Concept" and several other books and numerous published articles. He has developed over 50 courses which can be customized for the respective client.



This program is a introduction to the tools needed to perform Production Control principles/practices. It will explain the resources needed to accomplish the schedules and budgetary limits established for satisfying customer needs.

Understanding the different operating environments (Engineer to Order, Make to Order, Make to Stock, and others) will provide the responsible leadership and operating personnel with insight to better manage their respective situation.

The interface with other functions within the enterprise – Inventory Planning, Finance, Engineering, Quality, and Sales, is addressed to better communicate various scenarios that are encountered:

  • Customer order change requests
  • Engineering changes
  • Production operating issues
  • Inventory availability

Putting all of these situations and interfaces along with the production operating environment is provided in the content of this program!

Areas Covered

  • Overview
    - Operating Environments
    - Materials Mgt.
  • Manufacturing Planning and Control
    - Production Planning
  • Activity Management and Control
    - Capacity Mgt.
    - Production Activity Control
  • Additional Concepts
    - JIT/Lean
    - Total Quality Mgt. (TQM)

Who Should Attend

  • All production operating personnel
  • Engineering, Quality, and Financial personnel
  • Sales and Marketing personnel
  • Inventory Planning and Control personnel

Why Should You Attend

If they interface with production to obtain goods and/or services, this program will provide extensive understanding.

  • Learn about the different operating environments
  • What are the various practices for meeting customer’s needs?
    - For Order, ship from stock, or engineer to order
  • How to best use the production resources?
  • Measure and improve operating utilization and efficiency
  • What are the interfacing practices to enhance performance?
  • How to determine service level performance to customers?

Topic Background

An association with manufacturing responsibilities.

  • $200.00



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