MASTERCLASS - MASTER THE SKILLS YOU NEED TO ACHIEVE OPERATIONAL AND MACHINING EXCELLENCE

The new Masterclass extension of the Seco Technical Education Program (STEP) brings the expertise of the Seco Tools production floor to the classroom to impart operational and machining excellence.

Execute your business strategy with competitive consistency

Results demonstrate the impact of Manufacturing Excellence as it creates value for your company and your customers. Optimized, it speeds up delivery, reduces operational risk and operating costs, increases sustainable output and boosts revenues and profits. This STEP Masterclass shows you how to describe and analyze a manufacturing system so you can use practical models to create cost-efficient productivity with minimal impact on the environment.

Business leaders need to recognize and understand the key indicators that drive production efficiency. Manufacturing Excellence integrates reliable machining processes with the organization, flow and rhythm of successful manufacturing systems, along with workforce knowledge, skill and leadership development. It assimilates management philosophies and methodologies to achieve the utmost insights and opportunities through approaches to continuous improvement, including Lean Thinking, Six Sigma, QRM modeling and Machining Optimization Strategy (MOS).

This Masterclass is for business leaders who want to understand, control and manipulate the elements and key indicators that define and guide sustainable, cost and time-efficient operations to exceed customer expectations.

Engineering Managers
Managing Directors
Manufacturing Managers
Operations Managers
Plant Managers
Production Heads
Senior Engineers

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Introduction of the NEXT STEP production concept

Challenges of and solutions for complex manufacturing
Integration of Industry 4.0
Visible and hidden aspects of and variables in production systems
Resource-efficient manufacturing and machining
Efficiencies of cost, time and energy use
Definition and overview of measurement and analytical tools (OEE, TLCA, COSA and more)
Group technology
Standardization and rationalization
Sustainable pricing
Definition of total lead time

Workforce management and contributions

Roles and mission
Knowledge and skills
Mindset, motivation and leadership qualities

Physical process of reliable, controllable machining

Machinability models for various workpiece materials
Cutting-force models and thermal analysis of machining operations
Best practices for technological optimization of practical cutting processes

Total production economics

Definition of the global cost equation and its variables
Five key elements of successful machining: Costs, productivity, quality, yield and sustainability
Use of CPR factors

STEP technical publications, including:

Knowledge, Skills and Insight Makes Sustainable Machining
Applied Metal Cutting Physics, Best Practice
Global Tool Deterioration, Best Practice

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