Lean Manufacturing

The content of this training course has been developed following the successful implementation of the lean manufacturing techniques, concepts and strategies used in this course by manufacturing companies throughout the UK, with the help of our course tutors.

Why introduce Lean Manufacturing?

• Increased Customer Satisfaction
  
• Reduced Waste
  
• Improved Profitability
  
• Improved Process Control
  
• Company Wide Team Work

What you will learn

At the conclusion of the lean manufacturing training course each delegate will be able to:-

• Implement and maintain a company wide 5S programme
  
• Recognise ‘waste’ and other non-value added activities throughout their business
  
• Introduce a basic pull scheduling system e.g. Kanban
  
• Set up a lean manufacturing cell
  
• Identify the various types of mistake proofing techniques
  
  
• Follow a standard process to significantly reduce machine change-over times
  
• Identify a programme to maintain production equipment
  
• Generate value stream maps of their own manufacturing processes

Course Content

The lean manufacturing training course covers the following topics:-

• Overview of Lean tools - A guide to available tools & techniques.
  
• 5S
  
• 7 Wastes
  
• Kanban
  
• Factory Layout (Batch & Queue vs. Cell Manufacturing)
  
• Positive Stress in the Workplace
  
• Zero Quality Control - Successive Checking, Source Inspection & Poka Yoke
  
• Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
  
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
  
• Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
  
• Planning for Lean & Cultural Change
  
• Creation of a Lean Enterprise
  
• Problem Solving Techniques
  
• Bottleneck Management
  
• Project Review

Elements of the course content are trained using innovative role play where the delegates are required to act out the assembly operations of a ‘fictitious’ manufacturing company.

The introduction to lean manufacturing training courseis limited to a maximum of twelve delegates.

This is a non-residential training course.