Lean - Overview
Objective
Lean is the collective term for the elements of best practice originating within Japanese manufacturing and initially adopted in the West under the Just in Time banner. This course is intended to provide an introduction to the range of techniques aimed at eliminating waste and to give a foundation for delegates choosing how to explore the various topics in support of their improvement programme.
Learning Outcomes
- To understand waste in all its forms
- To appreciate the history and context of the Japanese methodology
- To recognise the contributory factors and inter-dependencies between the factors leading to waste in terms of business performance
- To have sufficient awareness of the individual techniques within the Lean portfolio to identify which need to explored further, in which sequence
Content
- A history lesson, Just in Time (JIT)
- Taiichi Ohno’s 7Ws
- Total Quality Management, including
- Design for manufacture
- Quality circles
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Poka yoke
- Cellular manufacturing
- Set-up reduction
- Simplified communications
- The Lean approach to supplier relationships
- Value Stream Mapping
- The 5S approach to housekeeping
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Various approaches to problem-solving
Duration
Typically 2 or 3 days
(This is, in fact, extremely variable. A detailed course on one element – for example, 5S – will typically cover 3 or 4 days. The duration of this overview course is entirely dependent upon the depth to which the client wishes to explore each of the areas.)
Participants
All who be required to play a part in adopting the Lean approach or who will be impacted by the changes that the approach will bring
Prerequisites
An understanding of the basics of Operations Management