Strategic Thinking — A Lean Case Study
Learn how to integrate lean practices with the overall strategy of the firm. This module will focus on identifying how lean manufacturing contributes to building value for the customer. Through a business case study you will learn a framework for thinking about strategy from an operations perspective and a method for segmenting customers based on salient manufacturing characteristics. This knowledge will allow you to focus your efforts so that the lean transformation in your company translates directly to enhanced value for your customer. Module highlights: Strategic implications of lean transformation; determine what "wins" customer orders and what "qualifies" you to compete for those orders; segment customers based on key order winners and qualifiers; develop a model for integrating manufacturing and marketplace concerns; marketing lean throughout the enterprise and to customers.
Planning and Implementing Lean
This module will detail the need for enterprise-wide waste elimination and demonstrate a systemic approach to get everyone in the enterprise involved in the process. Guided by the lean business case and the discipline of policy deployment, participants will learn how to align corporate objectives/initiatives with work place activities and day-to-day operations. We'll explore implementation roadmaps and application of the lean process improvement tool kit.
CEDAC
With standard work and continuous problem-solving fundamental to the lean journey, this module will demonstrate how the use CEDAC, a reliable method used to identify a problem's root cause and generate effective team-based solutions.
Value Stream Management
This module will lift-off the lean journey by presenting the step-by-step methodology of value stream management. Value stream management is the cornerstone to planning the implementation of all lean activities. Learn value stream mapping and story-boarding. Learn how to gather all the upstream and downstream information needed to make data driven decisions regarding your lean plan and the subsequent elimination of all non-value adding activities. In this module we'll consider measurements such as Dock to Dock, First Time Through, On-Time-Delivery, and Build to Schedule. The learning is business case based.
Six Sigma
Implementation of lean production flow requires process variation reduction. Six Sigma is a data-driven, project to project scientific method that reduces defects and waste. This module will explore the fundamentals of Six Sigma and the appropriate place to conduct Six Sigma analysis of a process or processes for your organization. Learn how to discover significant variables in a process and how knowledge of variation enhances management decisions and value to the customer. Through simulations participants will get a hands-on and visual demonstration of the Six Sigma methodology in action. An overview of the DMAIC methodology and the SIPOC process will be presented.
Project Chartering
Project management is fundamental to a successful lean journey. A project charting process is fundamental to project management. This module introduces a framework that provides the documentation and guidelines that govern the successful identification, monitoring, opening and closing of lean projects.
Homework
At the conclusion of each weeks training session, several homework assignments will
be made. These assignments are structured to further reinforce the learning that
takes place in the classroom sessions.
Homework assignments will include items such as gathering and analyzing information
to facilitate planning for your transformation process, selecting an initial
application (pilot) area, completing your current state value stream map,
designing manufacturing cells, and implementing Kanban pull systems. At
the time homework assignments are made, detailed requirement information
will be communicated to each participant.
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