COURSE OVERVIEW:
Many companies today are becoming lean enterprises by replacing their outdated mass-production systems with lean systems to improve quality, eliminate waste, and reduce delays and total costs.
A lean system emphasises the prevention of waste: any extra time, labour, or material spent producing a product or service that doesn’t add value to it. A lean system’s unique tools, techniques, and methods can help your organisation reduce costs, achieve just-in-time delivery, and shorten lead times.
A lean enterprise fosters a company culture in which all employees continually improve their skill levels and production processes. And because lean systems are customer focused and driven, a lean enterprise’s products and services are created and delivered in the right amounts, to the right location, at the right time, and in the right condition. Products and services are produced only for a specific customer order rather than being added to an inventory.
A lean system allows production of a wide variety of products or services, efficient and rapid changeover among them as needed, efficient response to fluctuating demand, and increased quality.
A value stream map is the first step your company should take in creating an overall lean-initiative plan. A lean initiative begins with agreement among employees on the current state of your organisation. Developing a visual map of the value stream allows everyone to fully understand and agree on how value is produced and where waste occurs.
This course explains some of the important tools and methods that will help you transform your organisation into a lean enterprise. The information includes: concepts and definitions you need to know, the skills you need to develop, the tools and techniques you need to use and the steps you need to take.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:
· What is a lean enterprise?
· The goals of the lean enterprise
· The importance of the lean enterprise goals
· How to improve quality?
· How to eliminate waste?
· How to reduce lead time?
· How to reduce total costs?
· The useful methods for analysing and allocating costs during the new-product-design process
· Techniques for analysing and improving the cost of your organisation’s operations
· What is a value stream?
· What is a value stream map, and what does it do?
· The benefits of creating a value stream map
· What areas should I focus on to create a value stream map?
· How do I create a value stream map?
· Samples of production-flow icons, material-flow icons, information-flow icons and lean manufacturing icons
· How do I use my team’s value stream map to make future improvements in my organisation?
· How to apply the one-piece-flow principles?
· How to apply the quick-changeover method?
· How to apply the error-proofing technique?
· How to apply visual management techniques?
· How to apply work-standardisation techniques?
· How to use load levelling?
· How to establish lean metrics?
· What is visual management?
· What does visual management do?
· Why use visual management?
· The 5 S’s of visual management
COURSE DURATION:
The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
You must have access to a computer or any mobile device with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF Viewer) installed, to complete this course.
COURSE DELIVERY:
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ASSESSMENT:
A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.
CERTIFICATION:
Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.