Learning the Lean System

Lean is a systematic management approach to enable and improve providing a product or service to a customer in the shortest time at the lowest cost. Learning the Lean System course provides the student a comprehensive introduction to the Lean system including Lean tools such as:

Value Stream Mapping, Kanban, Cellular Flow, Quality at Source, Teams, 5S and many more.

Elimination of waste is a key component of Lean and continuous improvement is a foundation of the lean philosophy. Lean, also known as the Toyota Production System, is largely common sense. Many companies have lost focus on the basics: keeping costs low, quality high, and the schedule on-time. Lean focuses us back on the basics by reducing or eliminating the eight types of waste - which commonly account for 95% of the total process time. Waste and inefficiency interfere with the 5% of time actually required to add value to a product or service as perceived by the customer. Lean applies to processes well beyond manufacturing including any discrete process such as financial services, services and administrative processes.

Topics included:

• Value Stream Mapping
• Pull/Kanban
• Cellular flow
• Quality at source
• Point of use storage
• Quick changeover
• Standardized Work
• Batch Reduction
• Teams
• 5S
• Visual Controls
• Plant Layout
• Total productive maintenance (TPM)

Target audience:

Professional staff, members of the work force, and management who wish to understand the how to use Lean to eliminate waste and improve their processes.