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- Traditional Classroom: 3-day
- Virtual Instructor-led: Six 3.5-hour sessions
This three-day instructor-led course is intended to provide participants with a clear, simple, and applicable understanding of how Lean concepts, mindsets, and toolsets can create a culture of continuous improvement with processes that are efficient and effective. At the end of the class, participants can chose to become certified Yellow Belts by passing a 30-question exam based on course content.
Target Audience
The primary audience for this course is anyone working in a culture that emphasizes effective and efficient quality delivery of processes, products, and services.
Learning Objectives
- Explain Lean principles.
- Identify eight common sources of waste in an organization.
- Identify a value stream and define opportunities for improvements.
- Build basic skills in continuous improvement and related tools.
- Identify and calculate flow rates and bottlenecks.
- Practice the implementation of “error-proofing.”
Key Takeaways
- Ability to determine eight common forms of process waste
- Confidence to reduce or eliminate waste through simple improvements
- Ability to identify process performance, improvement, and control
Course Outline
Mindset and Concepts
Module 0: Introduction
- Introduction
- Goals
- Agenda
Module 1: Continuous Improvement
- What Is a Lean Enterprise
- Illustrate Eight Forms of Waste (TIMWOOD Plus)
- Exercise: Identify Examples in Your Environment
- What Is Six Sigma DMAIC
- Exercise: Identify Examples in Your Environment
Module 2: Value Stream Mapping
- What Is a Value Stream?
- Benefits of Process Mapping
- How to Create a Value Stream Map
- Exercise: Create a High-Level Value Stream Map
Module 3: Visual Management
- What Is Visual Management
- 5S
- Exercise of application on 5S
- Visual Control
- Exercise: Process Control
Toolset
Module 4: Error-Proofing
- What Is Poka-Yoke?
- Exercise: Common Causes for Human Error
Module 5: One-Piece Flow
- What Is One-Piece Flow?
- One-Piece Flow Benefits
- Exercise: One-Piece Flow Simulation
Module 6: Standard Operations
- Definition
- Steps to Finding Work Commination
- Takt Time and Takt Rate
- Bottlenecks and Constraints
- Discussion: Is There a Constraint?
- Exercise: How to Reduce Constraints
Skillset and Certification
Module 7: Introduction to Kanban Pull Systems
- Kanban Pull Systems
- Just-in-Time Manufacturing and Kanban
- Withdrawal Kanban
- Discussion: Pull Systems
- Kanban Team Exercise
Module 8: Summary, Exam Preparation, and Review
- Practice Questions for Certification Exam
- Review of Answers and Testing Tips
- Action Planning for Application of Continuous Improvement
- and Storyboard
Duke Continuing Studies
You can also earn this certificate through CEG’s alliance with Duke Continuing Studies to build professional credibility with quality training backed by a renowned higher-education institution.
Participants who opt for the CEG/Duke Continuing Studies Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification Program are required to pass a 30-question exam at the end of each 3-day session to earn a co-branded certificate of completion jointly issued from CEG and Duke Continuing Studies.
MDI895-3 Course Code
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