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. Set-up Reduction includes concepts for learners such as setup and SMED overview including large-lot production; preparing for SMED including the four phases of traditional setup and transitioning from traditional to SMED; separating external setup and internal setup tasks; converting internal setup tasks to external setup tasks; and streamlining all setup tasks including stages 1-3 of SMED (implementation, tracking, and creating an action plan for open issues at the end).

Course Outline:

Course Segments:

Setup Reduction and Lean, Analyzing Setup Processes, Internal and External Tasks, Streamlining Changeover