Lean Management

Creating a Lean Culture addresses a gap in the literature on lean production and the Toyota Production System (TPS). This course introduces a lean system for management, first in concept and then in concrete detail. Lean management is a crucial ingredient for successful lean conversions. Yet, the standard books on lean either don’t cover it or only hint at implementing new ways to manage in a lean environment. Creating a Lean Culture provides the rationale and then a practical guide to implementing the missing link you’ll need to sustain your lean implementation— a lean management system. Lean production, based on the much admired Toyota Production System, has proved to be an unbeatable way to organize production operations. The key concepts of lean are easily grasped, and relative to most technical engineering projects, lean designs are easily implemented. Yet the majority of attempts to implement lean production end in disappointing outcomes, and declarations like: “Lean won’t work here,” or “with our people,” or “in our industry,” or “with our product/process,” and so on.

The purpose of lean management is to sustain a lean production system. Without a lean management system, lean production implementations often falter, sometimes fail, and virtually never deliver up to their long-run promises. This course lays out the components of lean management, how they work together, and how to implement the process. Creating a Lean Culture maps a course for leaders implementing lean management to guide them through the cultural minefields in batch-to-lean conversions. 

Objectives:

-          Understand the essential features and benefits of Lean management;

-          Gain hands-on experience with five high-value Lean management techniques;

-          Recognize how these five techniques make up a basic Lean management system;

-          Learn the three critical concepts of process, waste and flow;

-          Begin to break the dysfunctional habits of micromanagement and “workaroundism”;

-          Discover ways of building a trusting and respectful culture;

-          To highlight different techniques of Lean implementation;

PREDAVAČ

prof. dr Aleksandra Nikolić

CILJ/AIM

Cilj ovog studentskog kursa je istaći važnost stalnog unapređenja, kao mehanizma za identifikaciju i otklanjanje svih vrsta rasipanja i svih vrsta neefikasnosti u okviru poslovnog sistema.

U sklopu kursa bit će prikazane opšte postavke Lean pristupa kao moćnog sredstva za optimizaciju poslovanja, a posebno unapređenje praksi finog terminskog planiranja (KANBAN) što je osnov uspješnog timskog rada, mogućnosti samoevaluacije i uočavanja načina za poboljšanje svih radnih aktivnosti.

Dodatno, bit će objašnjena mogućnost da Lean pristup bude korišten platforma za primjenu drugih modela unapređenja, a posebno „ozelenjavanja“ poslovanja, te aplikaciju metoda Agilnog upravljanja, kao i mogućnost korištenja Lean pristupa kako bi „produbili“ digitalnu transformaciju, odnosno primjenu novih tehnologija.

The goal of this student course is to emphasize the importance of continuous improvement as a method for identifying and eliminating waste and inefficiencies within business systems.

During the course, we will introduce the general principles of the Lean approach, which serves as a powerful tool for optimizing business operations. In particular, we will focus on enhancing the practice of short-term planning using KANBAN, which is fundamental for successful teamwork and facilitates self-evaluation and the identification of opportunities for improvement in all work activities.

Additionally, we will discuss how the Lean approach can serve as a foundation for implementing other improvement models, particularly in the context of "greening" businesses and applying Agile management methods. We will also explore how Lean can further support digital transformation through the integration of new technologies.

SADRŽAJ/CONTENT

1.       Permanentno unapredenje osnov poslovnog uspjeha i smanjenja negativnog impakta na okoliš i društvo / Permanent improvement is the basis for business success and reducing negative impact on the environment and society.

2.       LEAN pristup optimizaciji i permanentnom unapređenju / LEAN approach to permanent improvenment

3.       Zeleni i LEAN pristup poslovanju / Green and LEAN approach

4.       KANBAN – fino, terminsko planiranje i timski rad/ scheduling and teamwork

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 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.