Lean Principles Practitioner Course

Managing and Building Lean Teams 

• Managing Teams  
• Work Cells 
• Lean Management 
• Self-Managed Team Philosophy 
• The Lean Manager and the Self-Managed Team 
• Personality Styles 
• High Performing Teams (HPT) 
• Autonomous HPTs 
• High-Performance Challenge 

Visual Management 

• Introduction to Visual Management 
• Guidelines for Visual Management 
• Cell Information Boards 

Advanced VOC 

• Advanced Intelligence Methods 
• Ways of Gathering the VOC 
• Intelligence Gathering: Top Tips 
• Critical to Quality Trees 
• CTQ Trees in Action 

Lean Metrics 

• What is Lean Metrics? 
• Metrics Drive Behavior 
• Choosing the Right Metrics 
• Things to Consider When Selecting Metrics 
• Useful Metrics 
• First and Second Projects Metrics 
• Key Metrics 

Process Measurements 

• What are Lean Process Measurements? 
• Two Top-Level Measures 
• The Four Sub-Metrics 
•  Calculating OEE and TEPP 
  • OEE is Not a Magic Number 
• First-Time Quality 
• Rolled Throughput Yield (RTY) 
  • Work in Progress 
• Completed Orders Metrics 
• Delivery Metrics 
• Warranty Metrics 
• Customer Feedback Metrics 
• Reporting Metrics 
• Aims of Data Collection 
• Key Performance Indicators 
• List of Criteria for a Good Measure 
• Gauge R and R 
• Measurement System Resolution 
• Brief Description of Data Collection Planning 
• Five Steps of the Data Collection Process 
• Frequency and Sample Size 

Total Productive Maintenance 

• TPM in a Nutshell 
  • Goals 
  • The Benefits of TPM 
  • What to Focus On 
• TPM Maturity Levels 
• TPM Health Check (Capability Assessment) 
• Implementation Structure of TPM 
• Establish Infrastructure 
• Eliminate Top Issues 
• Training 
• Conduct Autonomous and Planned Maintenance 
• Design Maintenance Prevention 

Process Levelling 

• Process Levelling 
  • Process Levelling (Theory) 
  • Process Levelling: Demand Management 
• Resource Scheduling: Simon’s Coffee Bar 
• Theory of Constraints 
• Process Levelling in the Office 
• What is the Minimum Cycle Time for a Form? 

Value Stream Mapping 

• Process Maps 
  • Process Map Levels 
• What is a Value Stream? 
  • Value Stream Maps 
• Creating the “As Is” VSM 
• Investigating and Understanding the Process 
• Creating a VSM: Process Borders Definition 
• The Square Wave 
• Creating an Improved Process 
• Steps for Building a Value Stream Map