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Lean Manufacturing Masters Program

 

Lean Manufacturing Level 1 - Primer Course


SSA's Lean Manufacturing Course - "Lean Manufacturing Masters Program" is structured under the framework of RMAOR ® methodology (Recognize - Map & Measure - Analyze - Optimize - Repeatable) which is a Thought Leadership of SSA to give a cook-book structure to lean manufacturing principles to make it more easier for the organization to adopt and apply the most complex Lean manufacturing tools in a very systematic manner for attaining best results. This Course aims to create Lean Transformation Agents who will be able to spear-head Lean Implementation in their organization. • The course is designed to cover lean principles in Manufacturing as well as Service Industry

  1. Introduction and Changing Business Scenario History and Evolution of Lean
    • Lean evolution
    • Toyota philosophy
    • Traditional thinking
    • Lean thinking

  2. Lean Manufacturing
    • Case Study
  3. Lean Principles
    • Value
    • Value stream
    • Flow
    • Pull
    • Perfection
  4. Lean Building Blocks
    • 7 wastes
    • Little's law
    • Pull system
    • WIP
    • PCE
  5. Approach to Lean Process
    • Lean design
    • Lean manufacturing tools
  6. Introduction to iGrafx
    • Overview of iGrafx
    • Introduction to value stream mapping with iGrafx
  7. 1.1 Learning Outcome
    • To understand business relevance of Lean in the current market scenario both in service & manufacturing industry
    • To understand how Lean evolved and difference between traditional and lean thinking
    • To understand principles of Lean
    • To learn and understand concepts like Little's law, Pull system, Process cycle efficiency and WIP
    • To learn about Lean design and Lean tools
    • To be learn about iGrafx and understand how it can be used for Value Stream Mapping
    • To do a small project in his/her function, this involves identification of non-value adding & value-adding activities and re-engineering the process
 

Lean Manufacturing Level 2 - Foundation Course


  1. Introduction
    • Introduction to Lean Manufacturing and Lean Management
    • History and evolution of Lean

  2. Recognize Phase
    • Identify burning platforms
    • Identify value streams
    • Identify Lean opportunities
  3. Map and Measure Phase
    • Value
    • Product Family Matrix
    • Process Mapping
    • As-is Value Stream Mapping
    • Lean Charter
    • VSM data
    • Identity waste
    • Value/Time Analysis
    • Baseline Lean capability measures
  4. Analyze Phase
    • Interpretation of CS VSM Phase
    • Push and Pull Systems
    • Flow
    • Creating continuous flow
  5. Optimize Phase
    • Cell Design
    • Kaizen
    • House Keeping
    • Poka Yoka
    • Standard Work
    • Visual Management
    • Total Productive Improvement
    • Single minute exchange of dies
    • Risk Assessment using FMEA
  6. Introduction to iGrafx
    • Repeatable Phase
    • Benefit Analysis Table
    • Standard Operating Procedures
    • Monitoring Mechanism
    • Response Chart for Variables
    • Control Charts for Attributes
    • Response Plan
    • KPI Monitoring
    • SMED, etc
  7. Learning Outcome

    Upon successful completion of the program, the participants will be able

    • To identify the pain areas in the organization and prioritize selected projects to be taken for improvement
    • To quantify the current baseline capability of the process in scope of project identified
    • To perform time and value analysis
    • To use the concepts of pull system and create a flow
    • To learn end to end Lean application through this course which will enhance their skills for covering entire enterprise
    • Control Charts for Attributes
 

Lean Manufacturing Level 3 - Masters Course


  1. Foundations & Stability
    • Lean thinking history, critics & evolution
    • Five lean principles; Value & Waste
    • Relevance of Lean Manufacturing to Service Operations
    • systems thinking
    • Lean frameworks
    • Policy Deployment
    • Accounting for Lean and Flow accounting
    • Introduction to Factory Physics

  2. Improvement & Systems
    • Definitions of quality
    • The views of the quality “ gurus ”, especially W Edwards Deming on „ Profound Knowledge‟
    • TQM – concepts, and criticism
    • Overview: Variation, mistakes and complexity.
    • Techniques for quality: the 7 tools, review of SPC, Failsafing,
    • Understanding variation: common and special causes
    • Six sigma methodology (DMAIC) and various six sigma tools
    • 5S concepts
    • Standard work
    • TWI methods – demonstration and practical skills of job instruction and practice at developing job breakdown charts
    • Kaizen – both point kaizen and flow kaizen methods
    • Service Quality – the importance of the customer, moments of truth, service profit chain, service gaps, retention & referrals, mapping service quality: blueprinting, cycle of service
    • Introduction to design of experiments (DOE)
    • Introduction to Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
  3. Layout, and TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)
    • Layout and Ergonomics:
    • Location considerations
    • Frameworks for Layout
    • Types of Layout
    • Servicescape concepts and office layout considerations
    • Systematic Layout Planning
    • Plant layout
    • Cell Design – including participation and 3P
    • Workstation Design
    • Line balancing – various types including work balance board and „bucket brigade‟
    • Material handling considerations
    • Ergonomic principles and considerations, including standards and safety
  4. TPM
    • Asset Reliability Self Assess Exercise
    • Sources of Information (step 1)
    • OEE Exercises (step 2)
    • 1st Manuf‟ Floor Visit: Criticality Assessment
    • 2nd Manuf‟ Floor Visit: Condition Appraisal Ex
    • Whose Job? Exercise - 6 x Loss Assessment Exercise
    • 3rd Manuf‟ Floor Visit; Refurbishment Plan +
    • Future TPM Asset Care (step7)
    • BPR Single Point Lessons (step 8) +
    • Problem Solving Ex (step 9)
    • Cultural Issues, Team Working & Facilitating +
    • A wider perspective of OEE including Overall Professional Effectiveness (OPE)
    • Launching & Sustaining TPM
    • Top Down & Bottom-up Audit and Reviews
    • Pillar Champions - Roles & Responsibilities
    • TPM & Lean Leadership Success Factors
    • Does TPM Pass the „So What ?‟ test
  5. Demand, Capacity, and Flow – Part 1
    • Frameworks for Scheduling and Planning
    • Types of Demand
    • Influencing Demand
    • Different types of scheduling environments and their characteristics: VAT analysis
    • Capacity Considerations and Management in Manufacturing and Service
    • Flow as a central concept in Lean
    • Queues: Arrival variation, process variation, Load and Capacity
    • Sales and Operations Planning
    • Inventory basics
    • Traditional MRP and MRPII
    • Forecasting in a lean environment
    • Managing demand and capacity
    • Master Scheduling
    • Pull systems: types and when is pull not pull?
    • One Piece flow, mixed model scheduling and Kanban variations
    • Heijunka operations (box, pitch, waterspider, etc.)
    • Batch sizing in a lean environment
    • Introduction to Factory physics
    • CONWIP (Constant WIP) and Factory Physics
  6. Demand Management
    • Frequency analysis to distinguish appropriate buffering
    • Make to stock (MTS) and the Order Level
    • Make to Order (MTO) and time buffering
    • How to deal with MTS and MTO across the same production resources
  7. Production Planning
    • Frequency of Issue of plan
    • Development of plans
    • Issue to line methodology & why this is not required in Kanban
  8. Production Control
    • What happens when things go wrong
    • What do with problems & how fast are they dealt with
    • How do know if up to date
  9. Material Handling
    • Kanban processes
    • Raw material delivery
    • Runner Routes
  10. Demand, Capacity, and Flow – Part 2
    • The need to map: the systems context
    • Different approaches to Mapping
    • Limitations of traditional value stream mapping
    • Types of Map: Spaghetti, and detailed process activity maps.
    • Drawing and analyzing the current state, especially information flows
    • Developing the future state
    • Developing and implementing the Action Plan
    • Demand Analysis, and demand type classifications
    • Information flows and IT aspects
    • Mapping for Lean accounting
    • Capacity and Lead Time analysis
  11. Leadership and Change
    • Change process models, change leadership and dealing with resistance
    • Intervention theory
    • Facilitating effective organisational change
    • The Need and Why for Change
    • Lean Leadership theories
    • People‟s behaviours and reactions to change – being correct vs. having people‟s buy-in
    • Psychological and behavioural aspects lean transformation
    • OD/OB aspects of transformation framework and sustainability
    • Converting theory to practice
    • TWI JR
    • Pitfalls of change management
    • Systems Laws and change
    • Lean leadership and leader standard work
    • Decision making
  12. Supply Chain
    • Supply Chain models
    • How to map, analyse and improve the extended supply chain
    • Supply chain dynamics
    • Supplier associations
    • Supply Chain accounting
    • Network sourcing
    • Understand the structure of the supply chain both in bound & outbound
    • Understand the key features of customer demand and demand dynamics within the supply chain
    • Fundamental structures & techniques for analysis of supply chain
    • Role of SCM function within organisation
    • Supply chain risk
    • Forecast errors
    • Visibility in SCM
  13. Innovation, New Product Introduction and Policy Deployment
    • What is innovation?
    • The Lean Design process
    • A re-visit of the Policy Deployment process including its relevance to new product introduction.
    • Toyota Design Principles
    • General Design Principles including
    • Design 3P
    • Process 3P
    • Production 3P
    • TRIZ: Systemic interactions and control of multiple projects
    • Ideal Final Result
    • Understanding customers and innovation
    • The TRIZ matrix
    • TRIZ case studies
    • New Product Introduction
    • Lean Service Design overview
    • Lean Manufacturing Design including
    • Set based design
    • Concurrent engineering
    • The Chief Engineer role
    • The "3 P‟ Process
  14. Practical Skills: Systems and TWI
    • History of TWI
    • Job analysis and breakdown sheet
    • The four steps of JI
    • Use of the skills matrix
    • Practice and repeat practice each step of JI
    • Capstone demonstration of JI
    • Purpose
    • Measures
    • System conditions
    • Achieving flow