Learn about lean: an operations management approach that means creating more value for customers with fewer resources.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Trim the fat by going lean
- What is lean?
- Why use lean?
- The need for continuous improvement
- Process mapping
- Value stream analysis
- Process reengineering
- The principle of ideality
- The elegant solution
- The cost of complexity
- The theory of constraints
- Demand-driven business
- Demand-driven materials
- Lean inventory
- The pull approach
- Lean workstations
- Total productive maintenance
- Lean quality
- Lean delivery
- Lean transportation
- Lean logistics
- Lean purchasing
- The lean culture
- The lean company
- Lean employees
- Lean thinking for supply chains
- Go leaner
Taught by
Steven Brown
