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Overview of the POLCA Production Control System

Overview of the POLCA Production Control System

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Created by   Suri Consulting & Seminars

Category   Industrial   >   Other

Duration 0 minutes
Audience Employees

Description

POLCA is a simple, visual production control system for companies making high-mix, low-volume, and custom products. This card-based system manages the flow of jobs through the shop floor: at each operation, it controls which job should be worked on next to meet delivery targets. POLCA ensures that upstream operations use their capacity effectively by working on jobs that are needed downstream, while preventing excessive work-in-process (WIP) build-ups when bottlenecks appear unexpectedly. 

This course explains the key features of POLCA and uses animated examples to demonstrate how POLCA works. It also summarizes the benefits companies get from using POLCA.

This course is intended for managers and employees at all levels, and requires no prior knowledge of POLCA. It will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. It is possible to exit the course at any time and return to resume where you left off.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
II. What is POLCA?
III. Operational Benefits of POLCA
IV. Additional Resources

Sysem Requirements

Windows: latest versions of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and Internet ExplorerMac: latest versions of Google Chrome, Safari, and FirefoxMobile: Safari in Apple iOS 10 or later, Google Chrome in Apple iOS 10 or later, and Google Chrome in Android OS 4.4 or later

Languages

English

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Overview of the POLCA Production Control System

Overview of the POLCA Production Control System
Overview of the POLCA Production Control System

POLCA is a simple, visual production control system for companies making high-mix, low-volume, and custom products. This card-based system manages the flow of jobs through the shop floor: at each operation, it controls which job should be worked on next to meet delivery targets. POLCA ensures that upstream operations use their capacity effectively by working on jobs that are needed downstream, while preventing excessive work-in-process (WIP) build-ups when bottlenecks appear unexpectedly. 

This course explains the key features of POLCA and uses animated examples to demonstrate how POLCA works. It also summarizes the benefits companies get from using POLCA.

This course is intended for managers and employees at all levels, and requires no prior knowledge of POLCA. It will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. It is possible to exit the course at any time and return to resume where you left off.

Suri Consulting & Seminars

Rajan Suri is internationally regarded as an expert on the analysis of manufacturing systems, and he is the founder of Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM). Suri has consulted for leading firms including Alcoa, Boeing, Danfoss, IBM, John Deere, Ford, AT&T, Harley Davidson, National Oilwell Varco, Pratt & Whitney, Rockwell Automation and Trek Bicycle. Consulting assignments in Europe and the Far East, along with projects for the World Bank, have given him an international perspective on manufacturing competitiveness.

Suri served as Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1985-2008. He earned his bachelor's degree from Cambridge University (England) and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Suri founded the Center for Quick Response Manufacturing in 1993, envisioning a consortium of companies that would work in partnership with the university and with each other to understand and implement lead time reduction strategies.

He has received awards from the American Automatic Control Council, The Institute of Management Sciences and the IEEE. In 1999, Suri was made a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and in 2006 he received SMEs Albert M. Sargent Progress Award for the creation and implementation of the Quick Response Manufacturing philosophy.

Suri has published numerous books on QRM, including:

Quick Response Manufacturing: A Companywide Approach to Reducing Lead Times (Productivity Press)

It's About Time: The Competitive Advantage of Quick Response Manufacturing (Productivity Press)

MCT: Quick Reference Guide 

The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA: The Production Control System for High-Mix, Low-Volume and Custom Products (Productivity Press)

For more information, or to contact Professor Suri please visit his personal website.

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