Lean applies to any organizational type and can be applied to all areas within the business. Essentially, lean is a three-pronged approach incorporating a quality belief, waste elimination and employee involvement supported by a structured management system. Basically, we’ve taken simple processes and complicated them resulting in longer lead-times, reduced flexibility, increased inventories and the inability to meet customer demands.

Learn how to execute a prioritized action plan to institutionalize continuous improvement in your organization. This course is designed to prepare you for implementing lean across the enterprise.

Class Schedule:

Overview:

This course is designed to prepare the black belt or “master practitioner” for implementing lean across the enterprise. It will lay the groundwork for building a lean enterprise transformation by portraying the entire spectrum of a lean transformation from traditional processes to a lean product delivery system. By the end of this course, participants will be able to answer these questions:

1. How do the steps of the lean enterprise fit together?
2. How does a lean "black belt" provide direction and vision toward a corporate lean effort?
3. How does a lean "black belt" apply the principles of lean across the enterprise?

This eight-day program is divided into two separate four-day programs. Participants are required to submit a project for evaluation after the first course and before completing the second course. Participants who successfully complete a project will receive IIE’s Lean Black Belt.

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What You Will Learn:

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Accomplish supplier and logistics integration
• Complete a lean enterprise transformation
• Develop a multitiered product delivery system
• Identify the components of a lean process
• Integrate rate-based planning and scheduling
• Configure to demand
• Develop lean process flows
• Implement lean in your organization
• Reduce cycle time through minimizing wait times

Course Content

• Planning Required to Complete a Lean Enterprise Transformation
• Performing a Business Strategy and Aligning Your Customers’ Requirements with Your Company’s Business Goals
• Configuring Products and Services and Developing a Multitiier Product Delivery System
• Identifying the Components Of a Lean Process
  -  Flow
  -  Point of Use
  -  Pull
  -  Quality
  -  Takt
• Integrating Rate based Planning and Scheduling
• Implementing Finished Goods Inventory Strategies And Customer Integration
• Accomplishing Supplier and Logistics Integration and Supplier Pull/ Broadcast
• Articulating and Executing a Prioritized Action Plan to Institutionalize Continual Improvement in Your Organization and Be a Positive Statistic of Continual Improvement
• Go 'Configure to Demand'- A look at how to move toward a multitiered product delivery system using:
  - Product Configuration
  - Planning Bills of Materials
  - Product Delivery System Integration Techniques
• Learn the Process Flow- A look at how to establish flow and how to make it lean using lean process design techniques:
  - Baseline Process
  - Product Anatomy
  - Process Anatomy
  - Activity Level Data Collection
  - Lean Design
  - Data Analysis
  - New Process Design (Flow, Point of Use, Pull, Quality, Takt)
  - Lean Tools (e.g. Point of Use and Visual Controls)
• Rate-based Planning- A look at how to plan the resources necessary for operating in a lean environment using:
  - Schedule Cycle and Footprint
  - Mix Model Sequencing
  - Sequencing and Pacing Box
  - Capacity Planning and Response Profiles
• Pull from Customer Through Supply- A look at how to reduce customer waiting time significantly and increase customer satisfaction using:
  - Finished Goods Inventory Strategies
  - Point of Sale Data
  - Production Planning
  - Material Control
  - Kanban

Corporate Training

This course is available as a corporate training program and can be customized to meet your company’s needs. For more information, contact IIE Director of Continuing Education and Program Development Larry Aft, P.E., (770) 349-1130.

Class cancellation:  IIE reserves the right to cancel a class up to 15 business days prior to the scheduled start date.