Lean management and Six Sigma are the most sought after business excellence strategies among the leading and progressive MNCs. Demand for certified professionals in these fields is tremendous in global market.
Lean management and Six Sigma are the most sought after business excellence strategies among the leading and progressive MNCs. Demand for certified professionals in these fields is tremendous in global market.
This course is prepared with a view to provide the complete learning of Lean management, which has its origin from Toyota Production System (TPS): Only one of its kinds of philosophy, processes, tools and techniques followed by Toyota to manufacture its cars.
Lean management is an essential part of lean thinking. It is all about customer focus, developing and maintaining systems and processes to provide value as defined by its customers.
Course materials include: 30 Video lectures, PDF files of lectures that can be downloaded, quizzes etc. The course contents are prepared by scholars, with more than 30 years of academic and industrial experience at leading MNCs. On an average, if a working adult devotes one hour per day, one would be able to complete this course within 15 to 20 days.
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After completion of this course, in case any learner wishes to obtain a professional certificate may email us to [email protected] for details of certification exam and fees.
This lecture introduces you to the lean management
This lecture covers the brief history of Lean management
Introduction to TPS and Lean management
This lecture provides the concept of value added, non value added and required non value added activities as described in TPS and Lean manufacturing.
Muri, Mura, and Muda famously known as 3Ms of waste, this lecture provides the clear understanding of 3M wastes and strategies to eliminate them.
In this lecture you will learn about the 7 wastes as described in TPS , which is to be eliminated first as part of Lean implementation at enterprise level.
Value Stream Mapping is one of the powerful tools of Lean. In this lecture you will understand the basics of VSM and how to develop a current state VSM and analyze the wastes.
Kaizen is Japanese word meaning continuous improvement, it is one of the tools of TPS and Lean management for systematically eliminating all forms of non value added activities and 3Ms.
Concept of waste elimination
This lecture explains the basic structure of implementation of Lean management strategy, at enterprises. Lean strategy could be initiated detailed process level. By stabilizing, creating flow and level incrementally process by process.
Continuous flow is a concept linked with pull system, in this lecture you will learn the concepts and requirements of continuous flow and pull.
Kanban means signal. This lecture gives the introduction of the types of kanban, and key differences between pull and push concepts.
This lecture explains the system of Kanban using cards and calculation for kanban card size based on the customer demand.
This lecture discusses about takt time and future VSM. Takt is a tool used in Lean to understand the rate of customer demand so as to set the production in rhythm with the customer demand. Future state VSM helps you to conceptualize the desired state of a Lean industry.
Learn Heijunka in this lecture. Heijunka is a balance between build to order production and one piece flow production of Lean management.
Cellular layout is a major concept of Lean management. In this lecture learn about the cellular layout, how it helps the single piece of lean, benefits and prerequisites before being attempted to implement.
Preparing Enterprise for Lean
Consistent Lean enterprise culture 1
Consistent Lean enterprise culture 2
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