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Introduction

  • History of Lean: The Toyota Production System.

Lean Thinking

  • Organizing human activities.

Benefits of Lean

  • Improvement in cash flow.
  • Increased capacity for revenue generation.

Five Principles of Lean

  • Value.
  • The Value Stream.
  • Flow.
  • Pull.
  • Perfection.

Types of Waste

  • Seven types of waste.
  • Avoiding the use of incorrect 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.
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