Principles of Lean Manufacturing – 24 Hour Course

• Customer Expectations
• Business Strategy
• Lean Manufacturing defined
• Define Value
• Identify the Value Stream
• Flow
• Pull
• Perfection
• Quality First
• Quality at the source – Part of the process
• Lean Benefits
• Key Strategies
• Cellular manufacturing vs. Job Shop manufacturing
• Load Leveling, line balancing, takt time
• Continuous Flow
• Mixed model scheduling
• Cross training, flexible workforce
• Kaizen Events
• Implementation and measurement

Key Lean Techniques and Tools

• Considering the entire process
• Value Stream Mapping
• Cycle time Reduction
• Inventory Reduction
• Design for Manufacturability/Concurrent Engineering
• Eliminating Variability
• Kanban and other Pull Systems
• 5 S
• Lean and Other Tools
• Just In Time
• Theory Of Constraints

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