Principles of Lean Manufacturing: Strategies for Streamlining June 10, 2009

Lean manufacturing focuses on increasing efficiency while reducing inventory on hand to deliver the maximum return-on-investment. Many companies have enjoyed lower production costs, higher profit, superior quality, shorter order-to-delivery time, greater flexibility, and improved response to changing client demand by introducing lean manufacturing into their organization.

In this exciting 1 1/2 day program you'll not only learn essential skills you need to undertake a lean manufacturing initiative, but you'll also gain hands-on experience of how it is implemented.

DESIGNED FOR:
This course is designed to introduce participants to the fundamentals of lean manufacturing. Plant managers, operations managers, business owners, shift supervisors and HR professionals, quality control personnel, engineers, and anyone wanting an understanding of use and application of lean manufacturing initiatives will benefit from this program.

BENEFITS:
The ability to quickly respond to market demand and prevent over-capacity within your company requires the adoption of lean manufacturing principles. Lean Manufacturing techniques allow you to lower costs, increase through-put, improve efficiency, reduce overhead, eliminate activities that are not value added and quickly respond to changing demands.

This seminar will give you a thorough understanding of why it works and how to implement it in your organization. Through hands-on simulations, you'll learn how to calculate metrics, to measure incremental improvement and to track the overall evolution of the simulated line into a lean organization.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Identify and eliminate waste.
- Modify the organization of your workplace to streamline the flow of people, products, and information.
- Understand the basics of Value Stream Mapping.

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