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Course details
Learn about lean: an operations management approach that means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. A lean organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a value creation process that has zero waste.
Lean concepts have been successfully applied to every aspect of doing business. In this course, learn the principles of lean and how they are used in processes, production, and services. Instructor Steven Brown also explains how lean thinking impacts the organization, from the overall business culture to day-to-day work activities.
Learning objectives
- Cite the focus of a lean strategy.
- Explain what a “rule of complexity” is.
- Name the three key measures of inventory.
- List the 5S tools.
- Define a lean transportation system.
- Describe the characteristics of a lean purchasing organization.
- Identify the characteristics of a lean company.
Contents
Introduction
– Trim the fat by going lean
- Lean Defined
– What is lean?
– Why use lean?
– The need for continuous improvement
– Chapter Quiz
- Lean Processes
– Process mapping
– Value stream analysis
– Process reengineering
– The principle of ideality (In progress)
– The elegant solution
– The cost of complexity
– The theory of constraints
– Chapter Quiz
- Lean Manufacturing
– Demand-driven business
– Demand-driven materials
– Lean inventory
– The pull approach
– Lean workstations
– Total productive maintenance
– Lean quality
– Chapter Quiz
- Lean Services
– Lean delivery
– Lean transportation
– Lean logistics
– Lean purchasing
– Chapter Quiz
- Lean Thinking
– The lean culture
– The lean company
– Lean employees
– Lean thinking for supply chains
– Chapter Quiz
Conclusion
– Go leaner
