Course Details

Lean production is aimed at elimination of waste in every area of production including customer relations, product design, supplier networks and factory management. Its goal is to incorporate less human effort, less inventory, less time to develop products, and less space to become highly responsive to customer demand while producing top quality products in the most efficient and economical manner possible.

Course modules:

• Introduction to Lean
• What is Lean Enterprise or Lean Manufacturing
• Lean Metrics
• Business Process Management
• Theory of Constraints
• Lean Thinking - Five Principles
• Synchronous Flow Manufacturing
• Cycle Time Reduction
• Single Unit Processing (One Piece Flow)
• Lean Tools
• Visual Factory
• Kanban
• Poka-Yoke
• Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)
• Standard Work
• Kaizen
• Supply Chain Management
• Applying Lean to Supply Chain Management - Advantages
• Implementation of Lean Manufacturing
• Change Management
• Deploying Lean in the Organization
• Lean & Six Sigma
• Laws and Implementation of Lean Six Sigma
• Lean Enterprise and Non-manufacturing Services
• Lean Enterprise and Non-manufacturing Services - Examples