Plan a production restart: determine the order in which lines restart, when maintenance is needed and which quality approvals must be in place.
In the course case, two lines need the same maintenance specialist. Line A can start technically but its quality check is outstanding. Line B has material and quality approval but needs a short repair. Decide how to assign the specialist and which line can actually deliver under the stated conditions.
Take away a restart plan and completed approval checklist for production, quality and maintenance to discuss the sequence and remaining prerequisites.
What you will work on
You define critical outputs, dependencies and a justified recovery sequence for a defined production area.
You allocate resources, decision rights and authorisation points for recovery and explain bottleneck decisions.
You account for scarce specialists and missing quality approval during recovery.
Who it is for
Plant management
Production management
Head of maintenance or production planning
Topics
Critical outputs and service targets across the production system
Dependencies on materials, people, assets and external services
Recovery sequence and minimum operating output
Resource bottlenecks, decision rights and authorisation points
Immediate measures, recovery and later stabilisation
Plan variation after the loss of a key partner and documented revision
Your result
Your restart plan and completed approval checklist show the sequence and the contributions needed from production, quality and maintenance.
Prerequisites
Experience in production or maintenance management and access to information on assets, material flows, staffing and delivery commitments. If confidential data are unavailable, you work on an anonymised or example case with comparable dependencies.
Format and approach
Planned: 6–8 hours of guided self-study with short case assignments, self-checks and a draft plan. You compare your answers with explained criteria.
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