Program Description
The Lean Certificate program teaches students Lean tools and techniques that can include dramatically improve your organization by removing non-value added activities while improving your cycle-time, products costs, and reducing inventory reduction. Some of the topics include 5S, Value Stream Mapping, SMED, Kanban, and Kaizen. The integrated learning environment provides participants hands-on practice using the tools in a real life scenario.
Program Objectives
- Teach students about their role in Lean and continuous improvement within their organization
- Learn to appply Lean concepts such as 5S, waste reduction, Process Mapping, Value Stream Mapping and mistake proofing
- Present projects to instructors, peers and managers for continuous feedback
Tentative Schedule
| Day | Lean Topics |
|---|---|
| Day 1 | Lean Six Sigma Overview, Enterprise-wide View |
| Leadership and Deployment | |
| Day 2 | Lean Enterprise and Lean Principles |
| Process & Value Stream Mapping | |
| Day 3 | Waste Analysis |
| 5S | |
| Day 4 | Push vs Pull |
| Takt Time and Kanban Calculations | |
| Day 5 | Kaizen |
| Set-Up Reduction, Quick-Change-Over and S.M.E.D. | |
| Day 6 | Total Productive Maintenance |
| Poka-Yoke and Visual Controls |
