The Lean Manufacturing Blueprint: From Basics to Mastery

Lean Management (also known as Lean Manufacturing, Lean Enterprise or Lean Production) is a system of management developed by the Toyota Motor Corporation being used successfully across the world in both manufacturing and service sectors including healthcare, banking, government and agriculture etc. Lean is focused on improving processes, eliminating waste, increasing values that customer receives, and enabling organizations gain competitive advantage over their competitors. The application lean principles, tools and techniques help in standardizing the workplace, creating a work environment where there is a place for everything and everything is in its place.

It enhances effective problem solving. It is a long-term approach to work that seeks to systematically achieve incremental changes in processes in order to improve efficiency and quality. This online certification course is designed to expose in details some time-tested principles, tools and techniques targeted to enabling engineers, quality assurance/control professionals, business owners & leaders, supervisors and managers of all levels etc.

to drastically eliminate process waste, create more values and continually improve their overall production/manufacturing, business and operational processes. The course consists of FREE downloadable templates, white papers and other resources that you can practice with to enhance your skills or customize for your personal and/or professional usage. This course is section into the following sections:Introduction to Lean ManagementHere, you will learn the various practical meaning of lean management, focus of lean management, the lean process and principles, and benefits of lean implementation.

Cost and Lean WasteIn this section, you will learn the concept of the 8 lean wastes and techniques in eliminating the wastes. You will be introduced to the cost of quality (COQ) and lean techniques assists in analyzing the cost of poor quality (COPQ). PDCA Cycle and the Lean MetricsHere, you will learn the application of PDCA cycle in lean implementation.