LEAN 100: Lean Manufacturing Principles with Factory Simulation

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1 day(s) , 7 instructional hours
7 Engineering Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

About This Event:

Make better products, faster, for less money with "lean" production techniques based on the Toyota Production System. Learn principles used by world-class manufacturers and learn how to engage your entire workforce to build top-quality goods with minimal wasted time, effort, and material. Learn to involve workers in making production smoother from start to finish; learn to stage materials, tools, and information so individual tasks and entire product changeovers take less time; learn to build products that will thrill your customers -- without retooling your entire factory.

Recommended For:

We will tailor an on-site version of this event to your needs, whether you intend it for managers and supervisors, front-line production workers, or an entire production team. We will tailor it to your specific product, your specific production environment no matter how big or how small, and your specific location anywhere in North Carolina. We also teach open-enrollment versions of this event that any employee of your company may attend to learn the basic principles of lean manufacturing.

You Will:

Learn and understand the elements of the lean production system and how it can improve your manufacturing and business operations
Define and demonstrate the basic concepts of the lean production system
Recognize the sources of waste in manufacturing
Understand value-added and non value-added activities, and how the value stream map can charter your course towards lean improvement
Participate in a factory simulation where you will apply lean principles and observe their impact on production
Begin to unleash the power of lean production system improvements in your own organization.

Topics Covered Include:

Lean production system
Value stream mapping
Stability - 5S, Plant Layout and TPM
JIT - pull, quick changeover, continuous flow and takt time.
Jidoka - quality, poka yoke, and problem solving
Standardization - standardized work, heijunka and kaizen
Involvement - teams, cross-training.

Instructor(s):

Our lean delivery team features experts with a combined 100 years of experience in a variety of industrial and commercial settings. Any of them are capable of teaching the basics in the Lean 100 course, but if you opt for an on-site course we will try to match you with someone with experience in a business like yours.