Lean Manufacturing — Fundamentals

A foundation course for supervisors, team leaders and process engineers encountering lean for the first time. You will learn to see the 7 types of waste on your own shop floor and take away tools you can deploy on Monday: 5S, standardized work and kaizen basics. The whole course is built on examples from real manufacturing projects.

Duration: 2 days  ·  Level: Foundation

Course outline

• Value and waste: the 7 types of losses (muda) with shop-floor examples
• 5S as workplace design, not housekeeping
• Standardized work and visual management
• Kaizen: small improvements that stick
• Value stream mapping (VSM) — fundamentals
• Gemba walk: workplace observation in practice
• Action plan: what to implement in the first month

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