Lean for Business Organizations

Applying Lean in Service and Manufacturing Organizations

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Lean for Business Organizations
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Oct 2023
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What you will learn

Introduction to Lean for Service and Manufacturing

Using Lean for Perfection and Quality

Lean Tools and Techniques for Flow and Pull

Reducing Waste and Streamlining Value Flow Using Lean

Value Stream Mapping in Lean Business

Applying Lean in Service and Manufacturing Organizations

Why take this course?

The Lean for Business Organizations course includes the following 6 sections:

  1. Introduction to Lean for Service and Manufacturing,

  2. Using Lean for Perfection and Quality,

  3. Lean Tools and Techniques for Flow and Pull,

  4. Reducing Waste and Streamlining Value Flow Using Lean,

  5. Value Stream Mapping in Lean Business, and

  6. Applying Lean in Service and Manufacturing Organizations.


1. Introduction to Lean for Service and Manufacturing

Using inefficient procedures is like digging a 200-foot wide hole for a 100-foot wide house. You'll have wasted a great deal of effort on something you don't really need. Your organization must make shrewd investments in its precious time, money, and effort. You need flexible, intelligent strategies to evolve and prosper in a competitive global market.

Lean is a methodology that incorporates a powerful set of tools and techniques designed to maximize customer value while constantly working to reduce waste. It focuses on improving overall efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction.

Because of its ability to improve customer satisfaction and deliver bottom-line financial gains, Lean is a preferred strategic choice for many organizations.

This course introduces you to the basic principles of Lean, which will help you create more efficient processes and get you on the road to successful operations management.

This course also outlines the five-step process for implementing Lean. By learning how to implement Lean in your organization, you can reduce the costs of developing your company's product, increase production efficiency, and improve safety, quality, and performance levels.

Finally, the course explains how Lean integrates with the Six Sigma production management system. Using this hybrid approach enables you to minimize process and product defects, and to identify and resolve pervasive problems.


2. Using Lean for Perfection and Quality

Today's markets are very competitive and customers insist on the best quality products for their money. This means that businesses must actively pursue perfection to keep their customers and to retain their market share.

Pursuing perfection and excellent quality are important principles of Lean thinking.

Continuous improvement, the elimination of waste, and striving toward zero defects all help organizations attract and keep customers, and so increase their profitability.

This course introduces four Lean tools organizations use to strive for perfection and improve quality – 5S, Hoshin Kanri, jidoka and poka yoke, and standard work.

As you work through this course, you'll find out what these tools are, their purpose, and how the tools are used.

You should then be able to recognize how the tools may be used in your own organization.

The course provides examples of how the Lean tools can be applied in both manufacturing and service organizations. It will help you assess your own organization's needs and determine how you can apply the tools to perfect what you offer.


3. Lean Tools and Techniques for Flow and Pull

How can you make your organization more efficient? The simplest way is to eliminate waste from your processes. This waste can be caused by many factors, such as untidy workspaces and surplus inventory. Or it might be caused by inefficient distribution of work. Using Lean tools, you can make your processes smoother and your workspaces tidier.

To implement a Lean solution, you must know what tools and techniques are available, and which ones would best help you. You have to select the best blend of Lean techniques for your organization. You can use a number of Lean techniques to make your organization run more smoothly. These include the visual workplace, just-in-time, kanban, and line balancing.

The visual workplace uses signs and other visual cues to convey information quickly. The visual cues include work instructions, process flow diagrams, and status boards.

Just-in-time ensures that you have exactly the right amount of supplies needed at any time. This helps to reduce surplus inventory.

Kanban cards are triggers that alert the team to send more parts or supplies. The parts are then "pulled" into the system, based on demand.

Line balancing results in the even distribution of work among workers. No workers are overburdened, and no workers are left idle.

Using the Lean techniques outlined in this course will help you to develop strategies for improving flow and pull in your organization.


4. Reducing Waste and Streamlining Value Flow Using Lean

For your business to be the best it can be, you need to eliminate what doesn't work and improve what does. In Lean thinking, this translates to reducing or eliminating waste and improving the flow of production. This course introduces approaches you can use to do just that, in both the manufacturing and service environments.

Before you can reduce waste, you need to recognize where and how it's occurring.

In this course, you'll learn how to do this by determining which of your company's activities add value and which don't.

Once you've categorized activities, you can search for ways to eliminate those that don't add value or, if they're required, to minimize the resources spent on them. And for activities that do add value, you can find ways to optimize this value.

Next you'll learn about the different forms of waste that you find in a business and the typical causes of each type of waste.

You'll also learn various strategies for minimizing or eliminating each of the waste types.

This course also explains the concept of continuous flow, which depends on the removal of obstacles and bottlenecks in work processes. You'll learn how to balance work processes to enhance flow, with the aim of producing what's needed, when it's needed, in the quantities required.

Using the strategies outlined in this course can improve the efficiency of your business, moving its processes closer to perfection.


5. Value Stream Mapping in Lean Business

Suppose on your first day of work, your boss tells you too many defects have crept into the company's product. She then asks for your input on how to solve the problem. But without knowing how the company's current processes work, it's unlikely you'll have useful suggestions. To improve processes, you first need to understand them.

To understand how something works, you need to observe it, noting how it fits into a larger pattern.

Creating a visual representation of the material and information flow that leads to the creation of a product or service can help. This is called value stream mapping.

With a value stream map, you can search for flaws, work out why problems exist, and plan how to eliminate them.

This course teaches you how to use value stream mapping as a tool for improving an organization's processes and making them more efficient. You'll learn how to create a current-state value stream map, analyze the current state, and then create a future-state map.

Create a current-state map - The course provides an overview of the steps involved in creating a current-state map and of the symbols typically used in this type of map.

Analyze current state - The current-state map provides a big-picture view of a targeted process. This makes it easier to identify where waste is occurring and why.

Create a future-state map - You'll learn how to create a future-state value stream map. This involves searching for and then recording opportunities to balance the production line, create pull, and eliminate sources of waste.

In this course, you'll learn how value stream mapping can be used, in both manufacturing and service industries. It will prove a valuable tool you can use to improve efficiency and eliminate waste, ultimately boosting both customer satisfaction and an organization's profits.


6. Applying Lean in Service and Manufacturing Organizations

Despite the relative simplicity of many Lean tools, a majority of attempts to adopt Lean in an organization fail. Why does this happen?

The chief cause of failure to convert to a Lean enterprise is lack of awareness that it requires a culture change, rather than simply a change in tools.

Transformation to a Lean enterprise calls for a complete change in the way everyone in the organization thinks about work, as well as slight work modifications.

Flirting with Lean tools won't create a meaningful or lasting improvement in an organization. To truly embrace and integrate Lean principles, an organization has to make a long-term commitment to the change. It also has to change its culture. All employees need to practice applying Lean concepts daily, until Lean thinking becomes an accepted and routine part of how they think and behave. It requires a cultural change.

A permanent shift to the Lean philosophy can occur only from a continuous improvement philosophy. When this occurs, organizational and customer benefits will be realized. So you need to encourage and practice continuous improvement daily to truly integrate the shift in culture.

This course provides a guide to the benefits and characteristics of a Lean culture. It provides tips and strategies for facilitating a culture change through the use of kaizen. And it provides a detailed guide on how to plan for and implement a kaizen event in your organization.

That’s it! Now go ahead and push that “Take this course” button and see you on the inside!

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ulrich
November 23, 2022
A man with poor English pronunciation reads from a long chart deck, pure theory, no visuals, no real life example. You can learn more about LEAN reading wikipedia articles
Jarrett
September 24, 2022
This course on Lean for Business Organizations by Sorin Dumitrascu is one of the most comprehensive and concise courses on the topic that I have ever had the pleasure of taking. Dumitrascu's years of experience in the field are evident in the way he is able to take complex topics and make them digestible for the average learner. The course is also chock-full of real-world examples that really help to drive home the key points.
Lily
September 23, 2022
I took the course on Lean for Business Organizations by Sorin Dumitrascu and found it to be a very useful introduction to Lean concepts. The course clearly demonstrates how to apply Lean principles to reduce waste and improve efficiency in a wide variety of business settings. The course also explains how to use Lean to create a culture of continuous improvement in any organization. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn how to apply Lean principles in the workplace.
Shane
September 21, 2022
I took Sorin's course on Lean for Business Organizations and it was extremely helpful. I found it to be very well organized and Sorin did a great job of presenting the material in an understandable way. The course was also very practical and I was able to apply what I learned immediately to my job. I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in Lean principles.
Emily
September 18, 2022
This course is excellent! It's very comprehensive and Sorin is a great teacher. I learned a lot about Lean and how to apply it to businesses. I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning more about Lean.
Kayla
September 17, 2022
I needed to learn the basics of lean manufacturing techniques in order to understand how to streamline my company's operations and create a more efficient and productive workflow. This course did exactly what I needed it to do. It explained all the basics and gave me a ton of resources to continue learning about lean manufacturing and applying its principles to my business.
Vaughn
September 17, 2022
I knew that I wanted to take a course on Lean, but didn't know where to start. After doing some research, I came across Sorin's course. This course is perfect for anyone who is looking to learn Lean, especially if you are a business owner and are looking to implement Lean practices. The course is so thorough, and it is easy to follow. There are quizzes and exercises throughout the course, including a final exam.
Eugenia
September 16, 2022
II recently took a course on Lean for Business Organizations by Sorin Dumitrascu on Udemy and I was very impressed. The course was very well organized and covered a lot of ground. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about Lean.
Shakira
September 16, 2022
This is an excellent course on Lean for Business Organizations. The instructor, Sorin Dumitrascu, does an excellent job of explaining the concepts and providing real-world examples. The course is well organized and easy to follow. I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning more about Lean.
Scott
September 15, 2022
This course is excellent for anyone who wants to learn about how to implement Lean in a business organization. The instructor, Sorin Dumitrascu, is very knowledgeable and does a great job of explaining the concepts in a way that is easy to understand. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who is interested in learning more about Lean.
Deebra
September 14, 2022
I was so excited to find this course on Lean for Business Organizations. I have always been interested in Lean, but I never had the opportunity to learn it first-hand. The course is straightforward and easy to follow, and it is a great introduction for anyone who is looking to learn about Lean. I am happy with the quality of this course and I am excited to continue learning about Lean from my new found mentor, Sorin Dumitrascu.
Jeffry
September 14, 2022
This is a very practical course for anyone who is looking to implement Lean principles in a B2B company. It covers different aspects of Lean and uses cases to show how it can be implemented in real life. It also addresses the different types of waste and how to know if they are present in your organization. Highly recommended
Sheley
September 13, 2022
This course covers the Lean principles in depth and uses a great number of examples from real life companies. The instructor covers the basics of the lean thinking and how to apply it to organizations in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their processes. The course covers the most important Lean tools, such as Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen Events and Kanban. I highly recommend this course to everyone who is interested in learning more about Lean and implementing it in their organization.
Justice
September 11, 2022
Sorin Dumitrascu's "Lean for Business Organizations" is a great course for those looking to improve their business skills! The course is very comprehensive and covers a lot of important topics related to business organization. The instructor is also very engaging and does a great job of explaining the concepts in a way that is easy to understand. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone looking to improve their business skills!
Cortney
September 10, 2022
This is a great course for anyone who is interested in learning more about how to implement Lean in their company. The instructor does a great job of explaining the fundamentals of Lean and shows how to implement it in various aspects of the company. The course is structured so that it is easy to brush up on your knowledge of the material before diving into the practical application of it.

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