Lean Fundamentals With Simulation

This high-impact, activity-based workshop provides detailed coverage of Lean fundamentals. Experience how to identify waste and eliminate waste in a value stream and prepare to begin the Lean journey in your own organization. The course presents each of the essential Lean tools and shows how they work together to reduce costs, improve processes and delight customers. This workshop will demonstrate how an organization can truly “Move from Ideas to Results”. This seminar can be provided with a Manufacturing or Service and Administrative focus.

Who should attend:
Front-line workers, administrators, engineers, managers, supervisors, change agents.

Prerequisite:
None.

CEU Credits: 1.6

Duration: 16 Hours (2-day course)

Course Content:

  • Lean Basics
    • What is Lean?
    • Origins of Lean
    • Lean Impact the Bottom-Line
  • Creating a Lean Culture
    • Lean Culture and Transformation
    • Keys and Barriers to Lean Success
    • Managing Change
  • Value Stream Mapping
    • What is a Value Stream?
    • Benefits of Value Stream Mapping
    • Developing a Current State Map
  • Standardized Work
    • Identification of Best Practices
    • Documenting the Standard Process
    • Training Personnel
  • 5S: Organizational Housekeeping
    • Sort
    • Set
    • Shine
    • Standardize
    • Sustain
    • Implementing 5S
  • Flowing Work
    • Cells and Continuous Flow
    • Assessing Customer Demand
  • Pull Systems and Kanban
    • Benefits
    • Pull Concepts
    • Kanbans
  • Visual Management
    • Using Visual Management to Improve Processes
  • Mistake Proofing
    • What is Mistake Proofing?
    • Mistake Proofing Methods
  • The Concept of Kaizen/Sustaining the Gains
    • Kaizen Steps
    • Keys to Effective Kaizen
    • The Kaizen Blitz
    • Sustaining the Gains
  • Simulation Exercise
    • Lean simulation exercises can be provided with either a manufacturing or administrative focus. Each lean simulation exercise is designed to make the non-value-adding activities in the process stand out and become obvious. Participants will get a hands-on opportunity to identify waste in the value stream and through a layered series of exercises implement various lean concepts and improvements.

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