Course Description:

Lean Manufacturing teaches learners ways to identify and eliminate waste in order to improve quality, reduce production time, and decrease cost: distilling down manufacturing processes to what is value added. Lean Process Flow covers key concepts including elements of lean production, comparing push-and-pull production systems, the Kanban System and its benefits, the Replenishment Interval and its importance, production scheduling, production balancing, and flow production and its benefits.

Course Outline:

Introduction to Lean Processes

Course Segments:

Lean Production and Little’s Law, Maximizing Resources and Reducing Wasteful Activities, Types of Kanban Systems and their Operation, Purpose of Inventory in Kanban System, Lean Production Scheduling, Flow Production and Cellular Manufacturing