Lean Foundations

Learn about lean: an operations management approach that means creating more value for customers with fewer resources.

Introduction

• Trim the fat by going lean

1. Lean Defined

• What is lean?
• Why use lean?
• The need for continuous improvement

2. Lean Processes

• Process mapping
• Value stream analysis
• Process reengineering
• The principle of ideality
• The elegant solution
• The cost of complexity
• The theory of constraints

3. Lean Manufacturing

• Demand-driven business
• Demand-driven materials
• Lean inventory
• The pull approach
• Lean workstations
• Total productive maintenance
• Lean quality

4. Lean Services

• Lean delivery
• Lean transportation
• Lean logistics
• Lean purchasing

5. Lean Thinking

• The lean culture
• The lean company
• Lean employees
• Lean thinking for supply chains

Conclusion

• Go leaner