Lean Manufacturing A-Z: Operations Management & Six Sigma

• Master the tools and methodology of Lean, Six Sigma and Kaizen to have and "impact" and "improve" your business operations - manufacturing, services, industrial operations and production.

• Equip yourself to take a new leading role in your workplace - improving your processes, systems, business / organization.

• Understand the fundamentals, then details of the most effective, proven improvement methodology ever.  The principles, tools and essential approaches to continuous improvement / kaizen in business systems, organization and design.

• Become the Lean & Six Sigma authority in your team on improving the operations systems in your business

This MBA style course on Lean Manufacturing & Six Sigma prepares and empowers you to make a REAL difference. Turbo-charge your career, and your business performance, to the highest levels.

This course is for the new or aspiring manager, the ambitious engineer, high flying consultant, the hands-on planners and the practical business analysts.

Business operations come in all shapes and sizes with a host of unique challenges; but Lean, whilst first developed in manufacturing has successfully lasted the decades and bridged into transport, retail, healthcare, logistics, finance and service companies. Lean remains the heart of continuously improving businesses of all types to remain competitive, improving profitability, improving customer experience and customer satisfaction, reducing costs and improving delivery.

Without a solid grasp of Lean and an awareness of Six Sigma, no manager, junior or senior, can competently or confidently look to improve their business operations, the processes, systems and teams that make a business successful.

Take control of your career and equip yourself with a solid base in Lean Methodologies that you can practically use right now to unlock the potential of your business processes!

Course Sections:

1. Lean Fundamentals and Philosophy

2. Value and Waste

3. Inventory Management and Control

4. Tools of Lean

5. Quality Management

6. Flow

7. Scheduling and Production Planning for Lean

8. History of Lean

Course Extras

• Downloadable Documents with summaries and exercises

• Summary Test with 80 multiple choice questions to test and lock in your learnings

Take control! Boost your career and your business!  Join us today!

Full List of Course Sub Sections:

1. Fundamentals and Philosophy of Lean

• Fundamentals of Lean

• The 5 Principles of Lean

• Lean is like an Orchestra

• Muda, Muri & Mura

• The 25 Characteristics of Lean

2. Value and Waste

• Value and Waste - Introduction

• Finding Customer Value - Kano

• Process Mapping for Value

• Value Timelines

• Tea Shop VA/ NVA Exercise

• Tea Shop Exercise - Debrief

• The 8 Wastes of Lean : TIMWOODS

• Other Types of Waste

• Chasing Waste - Caution

3. Inventory Management

• Inventory Introduction

• What is Inventory?

• Why do we Need Inventory?

• Little's Law

• Costs of Inventory

• Rock-Boat Analogy

4. Tools of Lean

• Tools - Introduction

• 5S - Workplace Organization

• SMED: Changeover and Cycletime Reduction

• SMED Method: Gantt Chart

• Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

• Visual Management

• Gemba

• Gemba Walks

• Standard Work

• PDCA Improvement Cycle

• A3 Reports

5. Quality

• Quality - Introduction

• Reducing Complexity

• Reducing Mistakes

• Reducing Variation

• Root Cause and 5 Whys

• Jidoka - Autonomation

• Poka-Yoke - Mistake Proofing

• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

6. Flow

• Flow - Introduction

• What Stops Flow?

• Reducing Variation in the System

• Causes of Variation of Demand and Capacity

• Demand Management - Introduction

• External Demand Management

• Internal Demand Management

• Takt Time, Cycle Time & Lead Time

• Takt Time

• Cycle Time

• Throughput and Lead Time

• Takt Time, Cycle Time & Lead Time Summary

• Small Batch Sizes

• Batch Sizes and One Piece Flow

• Local Efficiencies don't make an efficient system

7. Scheduling and Pull

• Scheduling - Introduction

• Lean Scheduling

• Choosing Batch Sizes

• Economic Batch Quantity / EOQ / EBQ

• Every Product Every Interval ( EPEI )

• Pull

• Cake Shop Example - Pull vs Push

• Production Pull in a Burger Shop

• Kanban - Production Planning

• Push vs Pull Approaches

• Pull: Pros and Cons

• Push Pull Combination

8. History of Lean

• History of Lean - Introduction

• History of Lean - Timeline

• Toyota Production System (TPS)

9. Six Sigma

• Overview of Six Sigma

• Six Sigma Statistics

• Principles of Six Sigma

• History of Six Sigma

• Six Sigma Certification Belts

• DMAIC Improvement Methodology

• DMAIC Doughnut Example

• Analysis Methods and Pitfalls

• Analytical Tools in Six Sigma

• Visualising Data

• Comparing Lean and Six Sigma

• Comparison of Lean and Six Sigma

• Summary - Six Sigma