Lean Flow

Lean Flow, Making Value Flow Workshop Overview

Lean Advisors Inc. offers professional on-site training at your facility. Participants learn hands-on how to flow their products in any plant or office environment. Flow is the most effective and efficient way to deliver any good or service for a customer. The focus is on aggressively removing process waste. Using flow, you will reduce lead times, operating costs, and improve quality. Your customers will see better, more consistent service. Your operators will work at a steadier pace in a safer, more ergonomically designed environment.

The participants will be taught by hands-on training methods how to use various techniques to create flow. These include operator balancing, machine balancing, cell layouts, work organization, standardization of work, and implementation.

The workshop facilitator spends a total of 3.5 days at the sponsoring company. The first half-day is for class preparation, and selection of a live project to work on from the future state value stream map. The workshop facilitator and the value stream manager complete this preparation work. The next three days are in class.

Learning Objectives

• Introduce methods to reduce waste through flow


• Develop your ability to see true flow in the workplace

Program Agenda

Making Value Flow - Day One

• Half-Day Preparation - Workshop Facilitator and Value Stream Manager

Making Value Flow - Day Two

• Getting Started


• What is the Work?


• Hands-on Exercise: Current State & Identifying and Timing Work Elements

Making Value Flow - Day Three

• Machines, Material, and Layout for Flow


• Distributing the Work


• Hands-on Exercise: Designing a Future State Flow

Making Value Flow - Day Four

• Connecting to the Customer and Regulating Flow


• Implementation, Sustaining, Improving


• Hands-on Exercise: Starting the Implementation Plan


• Conclusion

An optional 1.5-day Making Value Flow classroom-only session is offered where shop-floor access is not available.

Who Should Attend?

• Engineers


• Value Stream Managers


• Logistics and Material Handling Personnel


• Production Associates

Prerequisites

A completed Future State Map, and knowledge of Value Stream Mapping through formal training and experience is required. This is not a workshop for the novice level.