Lean Process Management - Manufacturing

Course Number:  105-RS
Recommended Duration:  5 Days (Ideally spread over several weeks)

Intended Audience: Project leaders and project members.

Course Overview
Lean manufacturing operations are those that have minimized the waste that often creeps into manufacturing processes. This course covers the five principles of Lean Operations with tools and techniques for implementing each of the five principles. This approach can be applied to any area of the manufacturing process including shop operations, material management, and inspection/testing. During the course, one process area will be analyzed in depth using lean tools. Improvements will be identified and implementation plans developed. This course is often combined with on-site consulting to assist in the implementation.

Prerequisites:  None

Topics/Objectives

• Definitions of waste

• 5 principles of lean

• Process mapping

• Customer mapping

• Process analysis

• JIT

• KANBAN

• TAKT

• Constraint management

• Pull