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Lean Foundations

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Learn about lean: an operations management approach that means creating more value for customers with fewer resources.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Trim the fat by going lean
1. Lean Defined
  • What is lean?
  • Why use lean?
  • The need for continuous improvement
2. Lean Processes
  • Process mapping
  • Value stream analysis
  • Process reengineering
  • The principle of ideality
  • The elegant solution
  • The cost of complexity
  • The theory of constraints
3. Lean Manufacturing
  • Demand-driven business
  • Demand-driven materials
  • Lean inventory
  • The pull approach
  • Lean workstations
  • Total productive maintenance
  • Lean quality
4. Lean Services
  • Lean delivery
  • Lean transportation
  • Lean logistics
  • Lean purchasing
5. Lean Thinking
  • The lean culture
  • The lean company
  • Lean employees
  • Lean thinking for supply chains
Conclusion
  • Go leaner

Taught by

Steven Brown

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