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The APICS Lean Enterprise workshop series
is an in depth seven workshop study of Lean principles that companies
need in order to meet the demand of today's manufacturing and service
environments. In the work shop series, the participants will follow a
fictitious company, through their lean transformation, and learn lean
principles and methodologies along the way. The series offers numerous
interactive activities for participants to maximize learning and
retention of the master Lean terminology in order to create a lean
implementation plan for their organization.
Description of each workshop is as follows:
1...Lean Enterprise Introduction
Students will learn the basic philosophy of lean, the steps necessary
for transformation. Also, learn how to determine product families and
how to asses company's lean status.
2...Lean Culture
Lean is a people and culture driven process. Participants will explore
the effects of a lean implementation on employees, brainstorm ides for
implementing change management and learn importance and stages of teams
in lean environments. Kaizen or team oriented continuous improvement
will be introduced and participants will study a problem within the
class environment.
3...Value Stream Mapping
This is a valuable tool for viewing processes and determining potential
areas of improvement Participants will draw a current state value stream
map using standard icons. Then participants will learn what makes a
value stream lean Next, they will apply this knowledge in a review of
the future state map relative to the current state class example.
4...Stability and Process Improvement
In this workshop participants will learn to achieve demand stability and
improve processes. Concepts include load leveling, mixed model
production, buffering, causes of variation, total productive
maintenance, and introduction to six sigma.
5...Just In Time
This workshop covers determining customer demand, standard work, line
balancing, continuous flow, implementing pull and use of kanbans.
6...Measuring
Traditional measurements aren't working well in the class example as we
transform to a lean company. In this workshop, participants will compare
and contrast traditional measurements to lean measurements and their
resulting behaviors. A review of lean accounting includes such topics as
standard cost Vs value stream profit and loss statements.
7...Sustaining
This workshop participants will perform a failure mode and effects
analysis (FMEA), analyze a problem using the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define,
Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) tool and create a lean action plan
to take back to their organization.