Lean Manufacturing for Competitive Advantage
(2-Day Workshop)

This two-day seminar provides an overview of Lean Manufacturing, highlighting the associates competitive advantages. The bottom-line benefits to be addressed include lower production costs, higher profit, superior quality, shorter order-to-delivery time, greater flexibility, and improved response to changing client demand. Guidelines for achieving these benefits are provided.

This seminar explains why Lean Manufacturing works and clarifies the underlying philosophy. By focusing on strategy rather than imitation, participants are able to apply Lean Manufacturing appropriately to their own companies. Factory physics is introduced as the scientific basis allowing participants to approach implementation with confidence.

Lean Manufacturing principles and practices are also introduced. Each practice is linked to a corresponding business goal. This emphasizes holistic benefits to the company rather than tools and techniques. The seminar concludes with a detailed discussion of implementation issues.

Learning Objectives:

• Lean Manufacturing Overview.
• What is Lean Manufacturing?
• Bottom line benefits.
• Goals and performance measures.
• Common misconceptions.
• Manufacturing as a management strategy.
• Understanding versus imitating.
• Assessing today’s factory.
• Value stream mapping.
• Reducing lead-time.
• The philosophy of Lean Manufacturing.
• Respect for people.
• Operational stability.
• Continual Improvement.
• Minimal cycle time.
• Quality at the source.
• The science of Lean Manufacturing.
• Factory physics.
• Variability.
• Principles and practices.
• Robust product and process design.
• Supplier involvement.
• Total productive maintenance.
• Continual improvement.
• Standardized work.
• Visual factory.
• Continuous material flow.
• Level, sequential production.
• Pull production control.
• Quick set-up & small-lot production.
• Mistake-proofing.
• A ten-point roadmap.
• Leading change.
• Handling resistance.
• Avoiding the common traps.

Who Should Attend?

• Senior managers and change agents
• Manufacturing managers
• Materials managers and analysts
• Production control managers
• Shop-floor supervisors
• Key production workers and team leaders

Features & Benefits:

• Recognize the bottom-line benefits of Lean Manufacturing
• Understand how your factory can achieve these benefits
• Develop a manufacturing strategy using lean philosophy