Lean manufacturing
Context and rationale
Improving organisation and operations for greater productivity is a crucial issue for manufacturers. To achieve this, companies turn to the Lean Manufacturing method.
Lean Manufacturing is based on eliminating waste, or Muda, in production processes.
This course provides a hands-on understanding of Lean Manufacturing techniques. It covers the tools needed to optimise processes along 8 lines: value, compliance, availability, capacity, flow, pull flow, standard and progress. It completes the vision of a simple system that involves people, is just what is needed and has no waste, built during the Lean Management course.
Training objectives
- Understanding the fundamental tools of Lean Manufacturing and Lean Office for effective and efficient production
- Simplifying all activities and fully satisfying customer demand.
- Reducing manufacturing lead times and increasing your production capacity
- Optimising your organisation to gain in output and structure
- Involving everyone in controlling quality and increasing productivity.
Training content
Acquiring the fundamentals of Lean manufacturing
- Understanding the origins and foundations of Lean Manufacturing.
- Defining the concept of added value.
- The principle of continuous improvement in small steps and staff involvement (KAIZEN).
- Reminder of PDCA, a tool for steering action plans.
- Identifying and eliminating waste (Muda, Muri, Mura).
- Understanding how pull flow works and its principle.
- Mastering the theory of one-piece flow.
Mapping your processes: VSM, Value Stream Mapping
- Definition of a VSM (Value Stream Map).
- The principle of analysing the value chain and lead times.
- Preparing a VSM.
Deploying the essential Lean tools for industry
- Organising your workstations (5S method).
- Improving the flexibility and capacity of your equipment (SMED method).
- Increasing the reliability of your equipment (TPM method).
- Monitoring and improving your productivity (OEE indicator).
- Working in pull flow and optimising your stocks and work in progress (Kanban method).
Steering and leading your workshops operationally
- Creating autonomous cells (concepts, challenges, resources to deploy, activities transferred).
- Developing your steering system.
- Setting up and leading your operational meetings.
- Setting up your field rounds.
- Designing your visual performance management system (visual management).
Solving problems as close to the field as possible
- Understanding the PDCA method.
- Implementing PDCA operationally.
- Overview of well-known problem-solving methods (QRQC, 8D, A3 report).
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