Livonia Technical Services Company

 

29600 Trancrest Avenue

Livonia, MI 48152

VOICE/FAX (248) 474-2035

www.livoniatech.com

 

Lean Methods

1 Day Training Program or Customized Workshop

 

Who Should Attend

Anyone involved in developing, implementing, or managing manufacturing or assembly processes.

 

How Lean Sessions Are Structured

The subject of “lean” manufacturing is broad and deep. Most modern manufacturing companies have some or even a great deal of lean know-how and experience. As a result, a “one-size” training or workshop approach is rarely useful. So, we “build to order” from a menu of topics, with the resulting depth of presentation based on the allotted time and the subjects that are most important to your success.

 

Workshop sessions that are carried out in a manufacturing facility can include a true “gemba” or shop-floor exercise. If a workshop session is conducted in an engineering center where repetitive manufacturing isn’t regularly carried out, then a “paper gemba,” a study that typically is part of the product development process, can be completed.

 

Contact Mike Anleitner (m.anleitner.68@livoniatech.com) to discuss either a training session or workshop for your firm.

 

Topics Menu

·  Five S: How to create and maintain clean, orderly, standardized workspaces—and why this is critical for lean implementation

·  Nemawashi: How to achieve consensus for lean projects, initiatives, and specific plans—and why overlooking this issue will slow lean activities

·  Understanding Waste: The seven types of waste, and how to measure waste in processes

·  Heijunka: The importance of production smoothing in pull/one piece flow systems

·  Lean vs. Mass Production: Why mass production seems right—and the waste it generates

·  Takt Time: What “takt” means, and how to use this concept to balance work cells

·  Push vs. Pull: Why pulling production is less wasteful than pushing

·  SMED: How to reduce set-up and machine down time to make one-piece pull systems practical

·  One Piece Flow: Why one piece pull is ideal, and how to move toward this goal using kanbans

·  Standards & Work Discipline: How to create and manage standardized work

·  Auto-No-Mation & Poke-Yoke: How to reduce  errors in any process—and how to link this to Process Failure Modes & Effect Analysis

·  Using Lean: How to plan and carry out gemba events