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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