INTEGRATED TASK

Note to assessor:

The facilitator and the managers or supervisors in the company must allocate a production area to the leamer for a full week.

They must provide the learner with the following.

The master production schedule

BOM for the product they are to produce

Use the checklist provided to assess the learner with the assistance of the manager supervisor involved.

Instruction to learner:

Read all the requirements carefully.

The purpose of this task is to see how will you can plan, schedule, monitor, control and report.

Review the checklist before starting this tesk.

Supervise production

For this task you are required to supervise a production area for one week. Your supervisor together with the facilitator will assign a production area to you. They will give you the master production plan so that you know how much to produce in the week you have been allocated. This will ensure that you do not over or under produce in this specific area. You will be given the BOM of the product that you need to produce.

Tasks:

You will be required to do the following

Source and plan all the resources for your production plan this will include manning levels and materials.

Take into account any planned downtime.

Formulate a production plan

Schedule the production plan

Control production

Monitor production

Report on production

After this you will be required to:

Present all your production reports.

Undergo questioning by a panel about the decisions that you have taken in this week.

Information required

The following information must be included in your resource planning

Critical path analysis of the product.

Routing to machines or work centres.

Manning levels for all the processes in the production line.

A list of all the materials needed to produce your product. This will include exact quantities that you will need for a weeks production. Use the BOM that has been provided to you and your planned production levels for the week to assist you in this calculation.

Current stock on hand levels for all the items required to produce the product.

In$-$transit quantities for all the items required to product the product.

Amounts and names of items to be ordered.

Lead times and names of items to be ordered.

Any adjustments to the production plan.

The following information must be included in your production plan:

Name of product

Quantity to be produced

Detailed steps of the processes involved

The timing of each step in the processes

Who is involved in the processes

What equipment will be used in the processes. The machine or workcentre must be identified

Where the processes will take place. The location of the machine or work centre

The raw materials needed for all the processes. This must also include component parts.

The following information must be included for your planned downtime:

Dates and times

How long the maintenance or changeover will take.

What machines will be affected.

The following information must be included in the production reports:

Any non$-$conformances experienced

Actual quantity produced compared to quantity planned.