Name: Lean Certification for Manufacturing
Course Code: BU6380
Duration: 5
Scheduled Dates for BU6380
As organizations look to increase market share and reduce costs, employees must prove that they can bring added value to their company in today's competitive environment. Make sure you are well positioned to help your organization meet its financial goals. Upon successful completion of this program, you will have the tools you need to achieve your Lean certification goals. To achieve Lean certification, you must: meet course attendance requirements, pass the certification exam, and successfully complete a Lean improvement project or kaizen event. Your project/event must show evidence of implementation of the Lean solutions and improved (leaner) performance.
Target Audience
Quality professionals and managers, manufacturing, process and industrial engineers, operations analysts and managers, Master Black Belts, Black Belts, Green Belts, and any manager or professional who wants to improve the efficiency of operations, processes, and the organization.
Key Topics
- Lean cost model; benefits of Lean
- Waste, unevenness, and overburden
- Lean Pathway
- Lean approaches
- Categories of waste
- Drivers of waste
- Waste assessement
- Value stream mapping
- Efficiency calculations (OEE)
- Organization and safety (5S)
- Workplace arrangement
- Standardization
- Data tools and approaches
- Error proofing (Poka Yoke)
- Auto-stop (autonomation)
- Rapid changeover (SMED)
- Integrated maintenance (TPM)
- One-piece flow and pull (just-in-time)
- Process pulse (takt time)
- Signaling pull (kanban)
- Visual management (andon)
- Load leveling
- Sequencing (production leveling)
- Implement approaches using DMAIC (DEFINE, MEASURE, ANALYZE, IMPROVE, CONTROL)
Objectives
- Learn to apply the steps, approaches, tools, and techniques used to create Lean processes and a Lean organization
- Recognize the purpose, objectives, results, and benefits that Lean can achieve
- Learn how to make the most of Lean teams
- Clearly see the waste in your processes and identify waste's drivers (unevenness and overburden)
- Use the Lean Pathway to identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement
- Learn the best way to plan for and implement Lean
- Understand the improvement (kaizen) method and the tools necessary to successfully conduct a targeted Lean/kaizen event
Fee: $2,495.00
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