Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Reduce Waste

What you'll learn

Understand 5S principles and learn how to apply these to an operation

Learn to identify wastes in production systems using the TIMWOOD acronym

Be able to apply lean manufacturing concepts developed by the Toyota Production System

Understand kanban systems and push/pull inventory management strategies

Requirements

No prior skills are necessary, but experience working in a factory environment might make the concepts easier to understand.

Description

Time is money. That statement is especially true when it comes to manufacturing.Building an efficient, high quality production process is critical to maintain profitability in a manufacturing operation. Thankfully, we can learn from decades of research done by industrial engineers and operations researchers to understand the tools we can use to analyze our production systems.This course is for anyone who wants to learn to make an operation more efficient. We’ll learn about the history of the lean manufacturing discipline and dive into the concepts developed by the Toyota Production System. We’ll learn how to identify waste in a production system using the TIMWOOD acronym, and we’ll also analyze the efficiency of an operation using 5S principles. Finally, we’ll understand Kanban inventory management systems and review specific tools that can increase efficiency and quality.You can learn all the terminology used in this class via a google search or by picking up a Lean Manufacturing textbook. The objective of this class is to teach you how to apply those principles to situations you might encounter in your daily world. The skill students should walk out of this class with is critical thinking, and a passion for recognizing waste and inefficiency in the world around them.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Intro to 5S & Lean Manufacturing

Lecture 2 Origins of Lean Manufacturing

Section 2: The Toyota Production System

Lecture 3 The Toyota Production System

Section 3: Identifying Waste

Lecture 4 Identifying Waste

Lecture 5 Identifying Waste - Practice Problems

Section 4: 5S Principles

Lecture 6 5S Principles

Section 5: Kanban

Lecture 7 Kanban

Section 6: Course Summary

Lecture 8 Course Summary

Anyone curious about production efficiency