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;
- Mësues: Arjan Tushaj