Overview:   
This one-day highly interactive course provides an overview of the principles of Lean Manufacturing. Participants review the history of lean manufacturing and learn how lean manufacturing tools and programs apply in today’s manufacturing environment.  The course combines lecture and simulation that affords participants an immediate opportunity to apply the principles learned in the class.  The results of the first simulation round provide the setting for continuous improvement.  Lean principles incorporated over subsequent rounds allow participants to transform a chaotic, inefficient process to a highly productive and efficient production process. 

How You Will Benefit:
At the completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the “nine wastes”
• Demonstrate knowledge of the difference between “value-added” and “non-value-added” activities
• Apply Lean implementation tools in a simulation situation and describe how/why they are used
• Explain and define how Lean Manufacturing can impact the success of an organization

Course Outline:

• Lean Fundamentals
  • Definition and philosophy
  • Value-Added vs. Non-Value-Added
  • Producing to demand
• The Nine Wastes
  • The traditional 8 wastes plus newly-added environmental waste
• Lean tools
  • Various Lean tools (e.g. 5S, Batch Reduction, POUS, Quality at the Source)
  • Apply tools during simulation rounds throughout the day
• Designing work flow
  • Line balancing
  • takt time
• Bottom-line impacts of Lean
• Guidelines for Successful Implementation

Who Should Attend:
Production managers, supervisors, engineers, continuous improvement specialists, quality assurance personnel, front-line employees, or others who are responsible for production or processes.

Prerequisites:
Experience with manufacturing and quality processes in a manufacturing environment.

Cost:
Full-day course
Cost: $200 per student (includes class, all class materials, and lunch)

Instructor:  Mark Biederbeck
Mark Biederbeck has more than 20 years experience in manufacturing including nearly 9 years as a consultant with the Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership (OMEP).  While with OMEP, he has worked with companies across a wide variety of industries facilitating more than 10 major Lean transformations and delivering more than 100 training events in various Lean topics. The results of these efforts have yielded increased capacities/sales, new and retained workers and dramatically reduced costs.  Although Mark is skilled in many aspects of Lean Manufacturing, he is particularly interested in seeing companies develop their own continuous improvement culture.  Recently, Mark achieved the Society of Manufacturing Engineer's Bronze Certification in Lean Manufacturing.