The goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive overview of Lean Manufacturing principles and key Quality Management tools, with a focus on teamwork and continuous improvement. Through practical methods such as ABC analysis and scatter plots participants will be equipped to improve some operational efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance process quality.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of Lean Manufacturing principles and essential Quality Management tools. Focusing on teamwork and continuous improvement, students will learn practical methods such as brainstorming, Ishikawa (Fishbone) diagrams, ABC analysis, Scatter plots, Critical Path Method (CPM), PERT analysis… By combining lean tools and quality management techniques, participants will be prepared to drive operational efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance overall quality of processes.

Through interactive workshops and group exercises the course empowering participants to apply these methods in real-world settings to support Lean and Quality Management goals.

This course provides an overview of lean management principles and additive manufacturing (technologies, materials, equipment and design rules) with focus on application of lean approach to additive manufacturing. Special attention is devoted to the role of additive manufacturing in terms of reduction of the seven wastes (waiting and lead time, overproduction, over processing, transportation, motion, inventory and defects), as well as, in further waste reduction through light weighting, reduced scrap rate, reduced pollution, reduced CO2 footprint and energy-efficient parts.

Through practical exercises the course participants will be trained to apply lean approach to additive manufacturing and fabricate products by FDM and SLA additive manufacturing technologies in accordance with waste reduction principles.

Mastering the possibilities of applying the lean approach in additive manufacturing. Training the use of CAD and slicer software for the preparation of 3D product models for additive manufacturing and the use of FFF/FDM 3D printers.