Lean Manufacturing A-Z: Operations Management & Six Sigma

Master the tools and methodology of Lean, Six Sigma and Kaizen to have and "impact" and "improve" your business operations - manufacturing, services, industrial operations and production.
Equip yourself to take a new leading role in your workplace - improving your processes, systems, business / organization.
Understand the fundamentals, then details of the most effective, proven improvement methodology ever.  The principles, tools and essential approaches to continuous improvement / kaizen in business systems, organization and design.
Become the Lean & Six Sigma authority in your team on improving the operations systems in your business
This MBA style course on Lean Manufacturing & Six Sigma prepares and empowers you to make a REAL difference. Turbo-charge your career, and your business performance, to the highest levels.

This course is for the new or aspiring manager, the ambitious engineer, high flying consultant, the hands-on planners and the practical business analysts.
Business operations come in all shapes and sizes with a host of unique challenges; but Lean, whilst first developed in manufacturing has successfully lasted the decades and bridged into transport, retail, healthcare, logistics, finance and service companies. Lean remains the heart of continuously improving businesses of all types to remain competitive, improving profitability, improving customer experience and customer satisfaction, reducing costs and improving delivery.
Without a solid grasp of Lean and an awareness of Six Sigma, no manager, junior or senior, can competently or confidently look to improve their business operations, the processes, systems and teams that make a business successful.
Take control of your career and equip yourself with a solid base in Lean Methodologies that you can practically use right now to unlock the potential of your business processes!
Course Sections:
1. Lean Fundamentals and Philosophy
2. Value and Waste
3. Inventory Management and Control
4. Tools of Lean
5. Quality Management
6. Flow
7. Scheduling and Production Planning for Lean
8. History of Lean
Course Extras
Downloadable Documents with summaries and exercises
Summary Test with 80 multiple choice questions to test and lock in your learnings
Take control! Boost your career and your business!  Join us today!
Full List of Course Sub Sections:
1. Fundamentals and Philosophy of Lean
Fundamentals of Lean
The 5 Principles of Lean
Lean is like an Orchestra
Muda, Muri & Mura
The 25 Characteristics of Lean
2. Value and Waste
Value and Waste - Introduction
Finding Customer Value - Kano
Process Mapping for Value
Value Timelines
Tea Shop VA/ NVA Exercise
Tea Shop Exercise - Debrief
The 8 Wastes of Lean : TIMWOODS
Other Types of Waste
Chasing Waste - Caution
3. Inventory Management
Inventory Introduction
What is Inventory?
Why do we Need Inventory?
Little's Law
Costs of Inventory
Rock-Boat Analogy
4. Tools of Lean
Tools - Introduction
5S - Workplace Organization
SMED: Changeover and Cycletime Reduction
SMED Method: Gantt Chart
Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
Visual Management
Gemba
Gemba Walks
Standard Work
PDCA Improvement Cycle
A3 Reports
5. Quality
Quality - Introduction
Reducing Complexity
Reducing Mistakes
Reducing Variation
Root Cause and 5 Whys
Jidoka - Autonomation
Poka-Yoke - Mistake Proofing
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
6. Flow
Flow - Introduction
What Stops Flow?
Reducing Variation in the System
Causes of Variation of Demand and Capacity
Demand Management - Introduction
External Demand Management
Internal Demand Management
Takt Time, Cycle Time & Lead Time
Takt Time
Cycle Time
Throughput and Lead Time
Takt Time, Cycle Time & Lead Time Summary
Small Batch Sizes
Batch Sizes and One Piece Flow
Local Efficiencies don't make an efficient system
7. Scheduling and Pull
Scheduling - Introduction
Lean Scheduling
Choosing Batch Sizes
Economic Batch Quantity / EOQ / EBQ
Every Product Every Interval ( EPEI )
Pull
Cake Shop Example - Pull vs Push
Production Pull in a Burger Shop
Kanban - Production Planning
Push vs Pull Approaches
Pull: Pros and Cons
Push Pull Combination
8. History of Lean
History of Lean - Introduction
History of Lean - Timeline
Toyota Production System (TPS)
9. Six Sigma
Overview of Six Sigma
Six Sigma Statistics
Principles of Six Sigma
History of Six Sigma
Six Sigma Certification Belts
DMAIC Improvement Methodology
DMAIC Doughnut Example
Analysis Methods and Pitfalls
Analytical Tools in Six Sigma
Visualising Data
Comparing Lean and Six Sigma
Comparison of Lean and Six Sigma
Summary - Six Sigma
Who this course is for:
Managers: New, Established and Aspiring Managers - especially those in operations, manufacturing or service sectors, production and industry
Ambitious self-starters who want to have a bigger impact at work, improve things and get noticed
Supervisors, Consultants, Engineers, Planners & Analysts, Management & Leadership teams
People working in Production, Manufacturing, Industrial Operations, Business Operations
Lean / Improvement Practitioners & Continuous Improvement CI / Kaizen teams
Those who wish to become an authority in their workplace on business process improvement
Six Sigma white, yellow green black belts who want to complement their Six Sigma with Lean