Lean Boot Camp: Applying Process Improvement Tools

Implementing Lean practices at your manufacturing plant can be a highly effective solution to reducing operational inefficiencies and improving productivity but knowing how or where to start can be a challenge to those new to this methodology. By attending this course, you will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of Lean, including key principles and the tools and techniques you can apply to make an immediate impact within your sphere of influence at your workplace. Class exercises and a hands-on manufacturing simulation will provide and reinforce the basics of Lean tools and techniques and demonstrate the Plan-Do-Check-Act improvement process.

What You Will Learn

• The fundamentals of lean
• How to apply Plan-Do-Check-Act for improvement and problem solving
• How to identify and reduce waste
• How to implement lean in your plant using Value Stream Maps, Takt Time Charts, Spaghetti Diagram, A3, etc.
• How to plan and organize your improvement effort in your organization

How You Will Benefit

• Take away key principles, tools, and techniques you can apply to make an immediate impact.
• Gain skills and confidence to improve processes which reduce operational inefficiencies.
• Lean how to apply the tools through hands-on (manufacturing) simulations.
• Develop techniques through project collaboration by working in teams.

Course Content

SEEING THE PROBLEM

• Value Stream Mapping
• 6S workplace organization
• Standardized work

CREATING FLOW

• Setup time reduction
• Pull systems
• Layout and material flow

QUALITY

• How to build quality into the process
• Mistake proofing
• Problem solving with Plan-Do-Check-Act

TEAMWORK

• Cross-functional kaizen teams
• How to engage people: every person, every day

LEADERSHIP

• How to communicate through visual management
• How to change management and project selection