Course Content
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- Lean Principles and how to deploy Lean Thinking in a service / transactional environment
- Various forms of Waste employees should learn to ‘see’ in a service or transactional environment to eliminate the waste
- Selection of Business Process families and Value Streams
- Organising operations to meet customer demand
- The relationship between quality and turnaround time, the Lean quality approach
- Checking at Source, Immediate Feedback and Mistake Proofing to prevent errors
- Making Business Processes flow
- Business Process Connections
- Batch and Queue versus Single-Piece Flow
- Implementing Single-Piece flow
- Workload balancing and Work Area Design
- FIFO processing, how FIFO surfaces issues in a service / transactional process
- Setup Times in relation to business processes and interruptions
- The benefits of Pull versus Push system
- Signaling systems
- Example implementations of Pull
- Creating Virtual Cells and Work Flow Cycles in a service / transactional environment
- Leveling demand and Leveling the Mix of ‘Services’ provided, establishing the Operations Cycle Interval
- Organising the Workspace for better productivity (5S)
- The use of Visual Management and why use Immediate Feedback
- Implementing Lean and organising for the Rapid Projects
- Introduction to Value Stream Mapping for a service / transactional environment