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Course Outline
Introduction
- History of Lean: The Toyota Production System
Lean Thinking
- Organizing human activities
Benefits of Lean
- Cash flow improvement
- Increased capacity for revenue
Five Principles of Lean
- Value
- The Value Stream
- Flow
- Pull
- Perfection
Types of Waste
- Seven types of waste
- Using the wrong metrics to measure waste
Measuring Performance
- Observing processes
- Understanding the key aspects of a KPI
Preparing the Enterprise for Lean
- Creating Lean processes
- Tracking work through Kanban
- Overcoming resistance to change
Implementing Lean in Your Organization
- Organizing the teams
- Kaizen and the continuous improvement cycle
- Developing people and partners
- Organizing the workspace for efficiency
- 5 S+1: Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain, Safety
- Reducing the time for equipment changeovers
- SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Dies)
- Calculating the pace of production (Takt time)
- Autonomation (Jidoka)
- Error proofing (Poka Yoke)
Value Stream Mapping
- Lean measurements
- Creating current and future state maps
- Just-in-time
- Built-in-quality
Promoting Lean Thinking across the Enterprise
- Tools + culture change
- Coaching
- Developing communication and feedback channels
- Focusing on long-term learning
Developing Lean Leaders
- Setting up a Lean leadership team
- Creating a succession system
Assessing the Results of Lean
- The Lean Maturity Matrix
- Tracking performance
- Benchmarking against other companies
- Continuous monitoring and improvement
Complementary Methodologies
- Agile and Scrum
- Six Sigma
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- An interest in developing people, improving efficiency, and eliminating waste within the organization
Audience
- Business managers
- Quality assurance managers and consultants
14 Hours
Testimonials (2)
Trainer is friendly and knowledgeable about tge subject. Trainer is profesional.
Johannes Grobler - Frederick Farms Ltd
Course - Management and Team Development
Very informative and if something was difficult the trainer Simplified it