Lean Strategies


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Target Audience
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
You may have all the proper ingredients, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can make the ultimate dish, especially if you are creating it for the first time. Adding the right amount of each ingredient in the proper sequence with specific techniques improves your chances for success. An understanding of lean manufacturing principles and techniques will give you the ingredients you need for a lean transformation. But you also need information about how to put all of these together in the correct sequence. In this course, you'll learn how to prepare for, develop, and maintain a lean organization. In Lesson 1 you'll learn what lean techniques to implement first and how to make the organizational transition go smoothly. In Lesson 2 you'll explore how to deploy specific lean techniques and support your efforts with proven strategies. In the last lesson you'll discover how to expand lean initiatives, get suppliers involved, and set yourself up for a future lean legacy.

Target Audience
Senior and mid-level managers who are considering, or who have begun, implementing the lean manufacturing approach in their own organizations

Expected Duration (hours)
4.5

Lesson Objectives

Taking the Lean Leap

  • recognize the benefits of preparing for the first lean implementation phase.
  • match lean techniques employed during the first phase of the lean implementation to corresponding examples.
  • match lean steps for transitioning to relevant examples.
  • assess whether lean steps are being used to facilitate effective transitioning in a given scenario.

    • Continuing to Be Lean

  • recognize the benefits of properly deploying and supporting lean techniques.
  • match the lean techniques used in the deployment phase of lean manufacturing with the appropriate examples.
  • apply appropriate lean techniques for the deployment phase in scenario-based examples.
  • select examples of strategies that can appropriately support the lean manufacturing transformation.
  • choose the appropriate lean support strategy to implement in a scenario-based example.

    • Staying Perfectly Lean

  • recognize the benefits of continually improving and expanding the lean transformation.
  • match the critical steps for successful policy deployment to the correct examples.
  • apply policy deployment steps in scenario-based examples.
  • identify examples of additional lean initiatives that could be implemented.
  • match the supplier with the criteria being used to analyze whether that supplier is a viable candidate for lean manufacturing initiatives.

    • Course Number:
    OPER0154