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Introduction

• History of Lean: The Toyota Production System

Lean thinking

• Organizing human activities

Benefits of Lean

• Cash flow improvement
• Increased capacity for revenue

Five Principles of Lean

• Value
• The Value Stream
• Flow
• Pull
• Perfection

Types of waste

• Seven types of waste
• Using the wrong metrics to measure waste

Measuring performance

• Observing processes
• Understanding the key aspects of a KPI

Preparing the enterprise for Lean

• Creating Lean processes
• Tracking work through Kanban
• Overcoming resistance to change

Implementing Lean in your organization

• Organizing the teams
• Kaizen and the continuous improvement cycle
• Developing people and partners
• Organizing the workspace for efficiency
  • 5 S+1: Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain, Safety
• Reducing the time for equipment changeovers
  • SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Dies)
• Calculating the pace of production (Takt time)
• Autonomation (Jidoka)
• Error proofing (Poka Yoke)

Value Stream Mapping

• Lean measurements
• Creating current and future state maps
• Just-in-time
• Built-in-quality

Promoting Lean thinking across the enterprise

• Tools + culture change
• Coaching
• Developing communication and feedback channels
• Focusing on long-term learning

Developing Lean leaders

• Setting up a Lean leadership team
• Creating a succession system

Assessing the results of Lean

• The Lean Maturity Matrix
• Tracking performance
• Benchmarking against other companies
• Continuous monitoring and improvement

Complimentary methodologies

• Agile and Scrum
• Six Sigma

Closing remarks