Is your lean initiative been stuck in "analysis paralysis," with plans and visions generated for two years without any change occurring on your shop floor? Or do you have a "popcorn implementation," with uncoordinated kaizen events occurring in various sections of your plant without a coherent view of where they are leading? Have you successfully reduced setup times on your key machines only to see it creep back up within six months? Or are you simply not seeing the benefits that you expected out of lean?
If you are worried about these issues, this course will give you tools to address them. First, it reviews the basic tools of project management currently applied in factories, their limitations, and how they can be applied in lean manufacturing programs and projects. Some of the more advanced tools are taught in universities but rarely applied in factories, and when they are, it is most often only for management presentations. We examine how and to what extent they can also be applied to the daily management of lean manufacturing programs and projects. In addition, we describe ariety of management methods that are specific to lean manufacturing and conducive to success in a variety of project types, all needed at different stages of the program, that have been developed over the years by lean implementers. Finally we review case studies of both successful projects and unsuccessful projects.
Manufacturing Managers
Manufacturing Engineers
Industrial Engineers
Process Engineers
How to get the most from this course
Read an introduction to lean manufacturing
Come with a specific improvement project to share.
Bring an open mind.
Course outline (click on blue bullets for details)