Lean Manufacturing

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This course provides learners with a comprehensive understanding of how Lean Manufacturing works in a manufacturing company.  Lean concepts (why lean, lean terminology, identifying wastes, Value Stream Mapping methods and the linkage between lean and Six Sigma) and lean practices (streamlining the value stream, workplace organization, ensuring predictability and consistency, set-up reduction, TPM, the visual workplace and continuous improvement) are covered. The course provides the learner with lean implementation suggestions including approaches for addressing people issues, collecting and analyzing data to plan and track lean efforts, process workflow and layouts options with rationale and a sequential roadmap.

Lean for Business Processes

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This course provides learners with a comprehensive understanding of how Lean Manufacturing works in a transaction or non-manufacturing business.  Lean concepts (why lean, lean terminology, identifying wastes, Value Stream Mapping methods and the linkage between lean and Six Sigma) and lean practices (streamlining the value stream, workplace organization, ensuring predictability and consistency, the visual workplace and continuous improvement) are covered. The course provides the learner with lean implementation suggestions including approaches for addressing people issues, collecting and analyzing data to plan and track lean efforts, process workflow and layouts options with rationale and a sequential roadmap.

The 5S's:  Workplace Organization

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The 5S's course introduces concepts of workplace organization and walks learners through each of the stages of the 5S process (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain) so that they can apply the techniques in their job and work area. The course includes a roadmap for implementing the 5S's along with examples of successes in each 5S stage to help trigger ideas for the learner for their 5S effort.

Mistake-Proof It!

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This course arms learners with a comprehensive background on mistake-proofing techniques focusing on problem prevention rather than problem detection/correction. Practical tools to design and implement mistake-proofing solutions are presented. The course includes approximately 150 examples of mistake-proofed solutions to provide learners with visual and mental triggers to mistake-proof their own processes.