Lean Manufacturing Training - Introduction

in house, 2 days
 
Training’s goal:
This workshop is an ideal introduction to Lean Manufacturing. The participants are explained the principles, the elements and the basic techniques. Lean Manufacturing or Continuous Improvement is the production approach based on the Toyota Production System. Lean Manufacturing focuses on eliminating waste from production processes. Through this system, the flow of goods, having a predetermined rate of customers, creats a minimum of stocks.
 
Principles:
1) Specify value in terms of the client.
2) Identify all the steps in Value Stream for each product or product family and eliminate any step, any action or any practice that does not create value.
3) Arrange remaining steps of the processes which create value, in close liaison with each other to meet the needs of the clients on a continuous basis.
4) When the flow was introduced into the organization, allow customers to underline the activities they require.
5) The previous principles should be transparent, allow managers and working teams to eliminate future losses aiming the continuous improvement.
 
Summary of the training session:
Day I
1) Performance, manager’s activity and continuous improvement;
2) Continuous improvement & innovation; LEAN – history and overview.
3) Lean Strategy; Management Branding (Exegens® concept); Balanced Scorecard;
4) Lean Accounting: Target Costing; Conversion Costs; Kaizen Costing;
5) Basic LEAN Techniques: 5S; Visual Management; Standardization (Example/Discussion - organizing a warehouse);
6) Basic LEAN Techniques: Problem solving techniques.
7) Basic LEAN Techniques: Increasing added value: Added value vs. loss; 3M’s: Muri – Mura – Muda; 3G’s: Gemba – Gembutsu – Genjitsu; Examples.

Day II
8) Lean process-based approach: Process flow; Value Stream Mapping - VSM;
9) Advanced LEAN Techniques: Total Productive Maintenance -  TPM; OEE - Overall Equipment Effectiveness, Autonomous Mentenance, Kobetsu Kaizen, SMED ),  Just in time - JIT, Quality first; D-FMEA/P-FMEA, Poka Yoke;
10) Implementation process: Suggestions system; Work on improvement projects; Lean Indicators; Company′s Culture and Structure;
11) 20 attitudes of Romanian employees in Lean projects;
12) Common mistakes found in companies during the "Lean Journey";
13) Video prezentation: Lean manufacturing in a company;
14) Conclusions and evaluation of participants: questions and answers. 
 
Who should attend: managers - engineers, production supervisors, top management, operators, CFO.
 
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