Lean Manufacturing 101

Lean Manufacturing has been touted as one of the best competitive tools available in business today, delivering sometimes-dramatic savings in productivity, cycle time, and work-in-process inventories. In this special one-day workshop, you become a shop floor employee building simple circuit boards. You are assigned to one of many available jobs from material handler to assembler. You will take part first-hand in activities that reinforce the lean manufacturing principles and move from the presentation format to the shop floor four times during the day to apply the concepts you learn. In addition, you will measure production results and profitability between production runs.

Program Content:

• Traditional vs. Lean Manufacturing
• Impact of batch sizes
• Impact of waste on operations
• Pull production systems
• Quality at the source
• Just-in-Time
• Storage strategies
• Simplified production scheduling techniques
• Limited work-in-progress

Provides direct, experienced based learning in the various concepts and components of lean manufacturing. A must do for decision-makers of the business to gain exposure to the various benefits and opportunities of lean manufacturing in your business.