QRM Institute Gold Course

Programme

The course is designed for participants who are working on an actual QRM transformation in their company. The training consists of class courses on some advanced topics as well as individual and group coaching during their actual QRM transformation. The training encompasses following modules:

• Module 1: Change management and transformation skills
  The module equips the participants with the key skills needed to launch and guide a QRM transformation project. You will learn how to clarify the desired future, discover the key focus areas for a successful change and set the necessary steps towards the desired outcome in your organization. The participants will also experience different ways on how to deal with transition problems and resistance.

• Module 2: Leadership
  Leadership is a critical success factor for every QRM transformation. This module provides insights into the required leadership behaviour, teaches the participants to diagnose the leadership issues and initiate the necessary steps towards the right leadership culture.

• Module 3: Planning and control for QRM companies
  This module looks at managing the right balance between the demand and the capacity at the long term through the Sales & Operations Planning process, discusses the tactical planning for the mid-term and short-term operational control at the shop floor. Several exercises and a POLCA-simulation game are used to illustrate the concepts in this module.

• Module 4: Company-wide application of QRM: the financial perspectiveThis module deepens the understanding of accounting calculations, teaches how to financially justify QRM-projects using practical exercises and discusses the role of finance in a QRM organization.

• Module 5: Advanced system dynamics
  This module expands the system dynamics concepts from the individual work centre level to a system of work centres and encompasses propagation dynamics of variability in systems, simulation of production systems, practical calculations of the impact of variability reductions, set-up time optimisation and lot sizing.

• Module 6: Application of QRM
  The actual application of the QRM-principles in the own company is the ultimate source of learning for the participants. Challenges encountered, progress made and lessons learned during their transformation projects will serve as a source of reflection and learning for the whole group. Participants will be able to receive direct support from the trainers during their projects.

• Module 7: Individual and group coaching
  This module enhances the coaching skills of the participants by giving them ample opportunity to coach each other on their QRM transformation projects and get feedback about the effectiveness of their interventions. The coaching can take place during individual or group sessions.

Certification

Participants can receive the QRM Institute Gold degree after successfully completing the examination and on the condition that at least 75% of the training course was attended. The examination consists of a theory exam and the evaluation of the participant’s report on a QRM transformation project.

For whom?

The course is aimed specifically at staff people and managers who are deeply involved in QRM transformation projects. Participants must have successfully completed the QRM Institute Silver course or an equivalent program. An online intake interview will be held with the participants to ensure the fit between the goals of the participant and the program content.

Location and dates

Sirris, MRC Gent, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 48, 9052 Zwijnaarde
We will also visit some companies during the course.

The training will be held at the following days: 10 May 2023, 14 June  2023, 6 September  2023, 11 October  2023, 8 November  2023, 6 December 2023, 24 January 2024 and 20 March 2024.

Timing: We will start at 3:00 p.m. and end by 9:00 p.m. 

A dinner will be offered at the end of the first session as an occasion to get to know each other. Food and drinks will be provided during the other sessions.

Trainers

The training will be given in Dutch by Pascal Pollet (Sirris), Tom Koomen (QRIS) and Anton Stellemans (Ilfaro).

Registration

In order to keep interaction optimal, the number of registrations is limited to 12 people.

This training is offered at a reduced price of 1,800 Euro for Flemish companies thanks to VLAIO's support within the framework of the industrial partnership project.
(you cannot combine it with subsidies from kmo-portefeuille)