As more organizations decide to go lean, demand is escalating for a skilled team and systemwide approach for developing and implementing lean project plans. This course is designed to equip you with the broad knowledge and tools to map the transformation for developing a lean culture at your organization.

This workshop will allow you to

• Complete a self-assessment to determine your organization's readiness to implement lean
• Gain practical experience analyzing how to incorporate lean into organizations
• Leave with a project plan for implementing lean into your organization

The APICS Lean Enterprise Workshop Series is organized to enable you to approach and understand the lean transformation process systematically. Using scenarios from a fictitious company, Murphy's Toys, you will be tasked with finding lean solutions to a myriad of challenges. This method will provide you with the flexibility to immediately customize what you've learned and implement it at your own organization.

There are seven workshops in the series:

Introduction
You will gain an overview of the many components of implementing a lean transformation in your organization and gauge your organization's readiness through a hands-on assessment.

Lean Culture
Explore the effects of a lean implementation on your employees and learn about the importance of teams. The Kaizen, a team-
oriented continuous improvement event will be introduced in this section.

Value Stream Mapping
Learn about value stream mapping and this tool's value for viewing processes and determining potential areas of
improvement. Draw a current state map and then learn about concepts to help you improve your future state.

Stability and Process Improvements
Learn how to improve process stability, achieve demand stability and improve manufacturing process efficiencies.

Just-in-Time
Determine customer demand, standard work, line balancing and many other tools to meet customer demand. Participants will
explore the use of a heijunka system to meet customer demand through a hands-on activity.

Measuring
Review the way a lean company measures and align measurements with objectives. Topics include lean accounting, inventory
costs, target costs and lead time.

Sustaining
Learn about the long-term changes to sustain the gains made. Topics include lean design, analyzing failures and ensuring
ongoing quality control and continuous improvement.

 

The workshop will consist of 28 total class hours. Through this course, participants will complete a self assessment to determine their organization’s readiness to implement lean, gain practical experience analyzing how to incorporate lean into organizations, obtain broad knowledge of the subject, and leave with a project plan for implementing lean into their organization.