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.
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