LEAN 101 - PRINCIPLES OF LEAN MANUFACTURING - Fort Smith

At this workshop, you will learn about the concepts of Lean Manufacturing and how to apply them. During the simulation exercises – as a member of the production team for Buzz Electronics – attendees will apply Lean concepts such as Standardized Work, Visual Signals, Point of Use Storage, Line Balancing, Batch-Size Reduction, Pull Systems, Kanban, Workplace Organization, 5S, Cellular, Single Piece Flow, and more. They will experience firsthand how Lean Manufacturing improves quality, reduces cycle time, improves delivery performance, minimizes Work-in-Process (WIP) – and, enables Buzz Electronics to show a profit!

Learn the Following

Participants will leave the workshop with a functional knowledge and understanding of Lean Manufacturing. They will be able to transfer this knowledge, with confidence, in practical and applicable ways to their own manufacturing environments. The seminar concepts will provide a holistic methodology for transforming a company from chaos to a fully creative mode of operation.

Who Should Participate

• Plant Managers
• Supervisors
• Technical Managers
• Operators
• Manufacturing Engineers
• Process Engineers
• Quality Coordinators
• Mechanics
• Lean Champions
• Kaizen Facilitators
• Team Leaders
• Change Agents

Benefits of LEAN

Companies that embrace Lean have experienced significant results. Numerous surveys of these companies have reported major sales growth and market share gains based on reduction in cycle times, improved on-time deliveries, utilization of floor space, WIP reductions, improvements in quality, machine availability, reduction in setup and changeover time, reduced scrap and rework.