Lean Teams, Lean Designs and Lean Scheduling

There are three primary topics included in this fifth of the six-part series on Lean Thinking. The Lean Teams segment will stress the continual use of teams to address and solve problems. Combining the talent s of many is the secret to building solutions that will be acceptable to the total organization.
Lean design pertains to the origination of the design of a process or a product. It will stress the fact that the vast majority of costs and errors are committed during the design phase.
Lean Scheduling pertains to the use of Lean concepts that enables a smooth flow of product and information through the Process.

What you will achieve;

• Lean Team Types – there are many different types of teams that are formed as a result of incorporating Lean Principles. Each will be illustrated and exercised to differentiate
  Team Responsibilities – as teams are formed, there needs to be clear definition of responsibilities for all members. One objective of this workshop is to make that definition
  Leadership requirements – teams may be capable of being self directed, however the section will focus on the need for Leadership
  Effective Design Process – attendees will learn why it is important that the design process include a variety of internal and Customer-based objectives
  Concurrent Engineering – the companies that involve multiple talents an skills during the design phase are destined to be the leaders in the World competition for superiority

What you will Learn;

Controlling Processes – the most efficient way to control a process is to build the control into the process itself, not to find errors after and then fix them. Students will be taught to develop methods of cast avoidance
Self-Verification – students will learn how to create process that verify correctness as the process is taking place
Root Cause Analysis – the only true way to solve a problem with permanent results is to address root cause
Standard work – students will be taught to create a process where variation in the process by the worker is minimized
Standard Work Components – We will train attendees to understand the difference between Cycle time, Work sequence and Standardized work-in-process
Single piece flow and set-up reduction – the connection between long set-ups and poor flow will be illustrated to assure that the class understands that long set-ups are unacceptable in a Lean environment.