Lean Production System

Lean production is a method of management that focuses on ensuring quality and cutting out waste. Lean production purposes to cut costs by making the business more efficient, effective and approachable to market requirements. This method can be implemented to all features of a business from design, through production to distribution.

In this course you will explore:

Lean Terminology: The learner will understand the meaning of terms and acronyms commonly used in a lean production system. The learner will identify terms commonly used in lean production systems.

The 8 Wastes of the Lean Production System: The learner identifies ways to eliminate or minimize wastes found in business processes. A quiz completes the activity.

The three interactive exercises, learners explore the relationship between process cycle time and defect detection, and between process cyle time and smaller batch sizes. The techniques of lean/JIT are applied to achieve the continuous improvement (kaizen) goal of reducing inventory by pursuing one-piece flow.

Value-Added vs. Non-Value-Added Activities: In this interactive object, learners read a description of value-added and non-value-added activities and then place various work duties into these two categories.