The Complete Course on Manufacturing Facility Layout and Design
Manage the Variables for an Efficient Facility Layout

A well-designed facility can position your company for growth and profit in the years to come. You must think about all the components that lead to an efficient operation: streamlined work processes, reduced material handling costs and improved equipment utilization. It's a lot of information to juggle.

Luckily, there's help. MAMTC has developed a system to help you manage all the variables to create an efficient facility layout for the future growth of your company both physically and strategically. The step-by-step strategy lets you plan day by day, week by week, to produce a design that ensures your plant not only survives but thrives in the future.

Managing Inventories and Cycle Counts
Eliminate Guesswork, Write-offs and Other Costly Blunders

There is no room for error in the inventory operations of today's manufacturers. If your inventory isn't accurate, you're open to costly - and embarrassing - mistakes. And, if your forecast of inventory requirements is off, dollar losses start adding up.

Snuff out shortages, write-offs and other costly blunders by mastering the strategic role of inventory by knowing what you have, where it is, and how much is on hand. Inventory management skills can help you conduct technically sound counts and improve inventory control for better forecasts, increased speed and improved accuracy.

Material Handling
Is Your System Working Effectively for You

How you handle your materials is an important part of your facility's productivity. Your materials handling system depends on how you define a load, what equipment you use, whether you use conveyer belts and or automation and who moves the loads.

If you are implementing a new materials handling system or would like to improve how you currently work with your materials, MAMTC can help you sort out the options and provide valuable training for you and your employees.

Using Effective Production Control Methods to Solve Scheduling Challenges
Create a Better Balance for Healthy Profits

Scheduling can be like a circus act - juggling production, cost, customer service, supplies and inventory. It seems that when one ball drops, they all do. With one miscalculation, your company can lose the advantage of price, quality or delivery.

Don't let your company fall victim to poor scheduling. Using techniques that balance all the important components, you can build a schedule that synchronizes production with market demand and still achieves a healthy profit. Let us show you how.

If you are implementing a new materials handling system or would like to improve how you currently work with your materials, MAMTC can help you sort out the options and provide valuable training for you and your employees.

Tighten Controls on Production Costs Now!
Send Your Profits to Your Bottom Line and Stay Competitive

The goal of every business is to produce a consistent product that is competitive in cost and quality. You want to do it better, faster and most of all, more cost-effectively than your competitors. As costs of production rise faster than prices, it becomes even more important to reduce waste and control cost to make a profit.

An effective cost control system makes sure that your profits go to your company's bottom line, not excess labor and materials. Learn how to clamp down on waste and other production costs to keep your company competitive.

Better Development of Shop Floor Procedures
Create Instructions That Get Read…and Followed

Are you tired of wasting time and effort developing procedures no one reads…and no one follows? They look so simple - the shop floor manuals, handbooks, checklists and pamphlets. But, you know better than anyone, they're a challenge to develop.

Precise instructions and procedures are vital to the safe and efficient operation of your plant. Confusing information puts the health and safety of operators at risk and may leave you vulnerable to lost productivity. Give your employees the training they need to create guidelines that are concise and accurate.

Basic Architectural Engineering
Can you read me?

Have you ever tried to read and interpret a set of architectural or engineering plans for a plant expansion, remodel, or other project? At first glance, the drawings may appear to be Greek, with a myriad of lines and symbols and abbreviations that seemingly no one can comprehend.

This course will teach you the basics of reading architectural and engineering plans so that the next you are faced with reading and understanding plans, you can do so with confidence. We can help you turn Greek into English.

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
What do all these symbols mean?

Do Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) symbols confuse you? When following engineering plans, there isn't much room for error. For anyone that must interpret engineering drawings, they are vital pieces you may need to decipher to do your job.

MAMTC can train your staff in GD&T for better overall communication between your engineering department and your production department. Some of the topics covered include symbols and basic principles, geometric symbols, feature control frames, form and orientation tolerances, profile, location tolerances and functional gauging.

Jigs & Fixtures
Turn Tool Design Into a Competitive Advantage

The ability to design innovative and cost-effective jigs and fixtures is essential if shop floors are to achieve lean, profitable production. Jigs and fixtures created for speed and efficiency can improve set-up times, eliminate breakdowns and - ultimately - increase your profits.

MAMTC can help you turn tool design into a competitive advantage. Learn the latest advances in jigs and fixtures design, techniques to streamline the process and skills to ensure a long-lived product. Whether you design tools or contribute to the process, MAMTC can help you develop innovative approaches to jigs and fixture design.

Machining Best Practices
Get the Most Out of Your Equipment

Are you getting the most out of the equipment you own? When manufacturers optimize their machining operations, including maintenance and calibration, they are able to increase the performance efficiency and quality of their equipment. You bought it. Make sure you're getting the most out of it.

Expert knowledge in tool geometry, cutting tools and fluids, tool longevity and up-to-date machining processes guarantees you successful equipment operation. Learn how to use the best machining practices to increase your productivity and lower your costs.

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) Application Training
Learn How PLCs Can Help Streamline Your Business

A Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is the brain of an industrial manufacturing process. Designed to handle multiple inputs and outputs, PLCs provide flexibility in factory automated systems. Knowing its capabilities and optimizing is use in your facility can help you streamline your operation.

MAMTC's training explains the theoretical knowledge needed for modern process control applications and gives you practical information on economic, maintenance and safety aspects of PLC systems. If you currently use PLC systems or are thinking about implementing the technology, we can help you maximize your investment.