INTRODUCTION FOR LEAN MANUFACTURING – UNDERSTANDING AND IMPLEMENTATION

Lean manufacturing which is often known simply as “Lean”, is a generic process management philosophy derived mostly from the Toyota Production System (TPS). It is a powerful method that allows organizations to improve the productivity, efficiency, and quality of their products and services. Companies today, from a wide range of industries, government agencies and other areas are finding ways to apply the principles of lean as a means of producing goods and delivering services that creates value for the customer with the minimum amount of waste and the highest level of quality. Our simulation-based, hands-on overview will present you with essential principles, tools and applications of what  Lean manufacturing can do to transform your organization towards a World Class company.

OBJECTIVE LEAN MANUFACTURING – UNDERSTANDING AND IMPLEMENTATION 

• What is Lean Manufacturing?
• Why Lean Manufacturing is not a choice but compulsory to be implemented
• How to go about starting on the Lean journey?
• Setting the right strategies for Lean Manufacturing
• Tools versus Culture
• Cost reduction versus waste reduction
• Tops down versus bottoms up. Which is the right way to go?
• Lean manufacturing and 6 sigma. Which to use when?
• Putting up an action plan

COURSE CONTENT

Introduction to Lean Manufacturing

• What is Lean Manufacturing?
• Why “Lean” ?
• History of lean
• 5 principles of Lean
• Lean manufacturing and Toyota Production System
• Lean and six sigma – when to use which?

What a Lean Leader must know from the cultural and people’s perspective of Lean?

• Overview of the company culture and management system in participants’ organizations.
• What obstacles have you experienced in your efforts to implement lean?
• What do you need to successfully deploy lean?

Waste Identification

• Define Customer Value- add and Business – Value add
• Identify the 7 wastes
• Muda, Mura & Muri

Standardization

• What is a standardized system?
• Advantages of standardization

Visual Management

• Why Visual Management ?
• Benefits of Visual Management

Poka Yoke or Error Proofing

• Poka Yoke Philosophy

Flow and Work Cell Design

• What’s Flow?
• Traditional Layout & Lean layout

SMED (Quick Change Over)

• What is SMED ?
• Waste during Change Over (C/O) or Setups
• Benefits gained from reducing C/O times

Kaizen

• What is Kaizen ?
• Kaizen Spirit
• Main Kaizen Activity

Why some companies fail in implementing Lean?
The challenges organizations face in implementing a lean transformation and suggested methods to deal with those challenges

Action plan – putting it all together

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