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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
Did you know the Plan-Do-Check-Act (or PDCA) cycle is the correct methodology to follow when solving problems and managing changes? The PDCA cycle is an ordered sequence of four stages, which will take a process condition from “problem-found” to “problem-solved.” This interactive online course provides an overview of the PDCA cycle used as a continual improvement procedure, promoting the dominion of the tools needed for solving problems and managing changes. This course will define the phases of PDCA, explain how to use it as a continual improvement procedure, and list the benefits of implementing PDCA into your processes.
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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
This training course provides an approach to managing documented instructions, known as standardized work. This lean manufacturing tool provides a clear communication of steps to be met when performing a job, allowing sustainability of continual improvements in the manufacturing setting.
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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
Have you ever heard of value stream mapping? Value stream mapping (VSM) is a Lean tool that allows you to create a visual representation, from order receipt through to the arrival of the product to the customer, without concentrating on the period of lead time taken up by manufacturing. In this interactive online course, we will review the concepts of value stream mapping, the steps in value stream mapping, and list the benefits of this useful tool.
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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
The Voice of the Customer (VoC) is a term used in business to describe customer’s expectations and requirements. It can also represent customer’s feedback about their experiences with, and expectations of, a rendered product or service. Others define it as the statement made by the customer about a product or service. This course discusses the importance of the Voice of the Customer to a business’s success and describes how to anticipate and meet customer needs and requirements once this data is captured.
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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
Did you know businesses are implementing Lean initiatives so they can remain market leaders? If a business is the market leader today, but fails to continually improve its products and services, eventually, a competitor will either make it quicker, better or cheaper, taking its customers away. To meet today’s challenges, businesses are continually seeking out methods to increase quality and reduce waste. Among the options, companies are improving their quality system, and implementing Lean initiatives and new processes at their facilities. Many companies are embracing the Kaizen structured approach to continually improve processes. This interactive online course will cover the continuous improvement process known as Kaizen. Kaizen measures improvement by working on an existing problem and following through with actions to correct it. It is not just a one-time event; it is a process that can occur every day.
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Duration: 0.25 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
Did you know the word “Kanban” is of Japanese origin and translates to “billboard” or “signboard”? It is one of the Lean methodologies used to reduce wastes, such as waiting, overstocking, overproduction, and excess motion in a production process. It ensures parts are finished exactly when they are planned to be without interruptions caused by a lack of raw materials. This interactive online course provides an overview of the Lean manufacturing tool Kanban. Kanban uses visual signals to communicate the need for raw materials or parts only when there is a demand for them. This ensures that you only produce what customers want when they want it.
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Duration: 0.25 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
This training course defines the manufacturing tool Poka-Yoke and provides approaches to the use of mistake-proofing devices as continual improvement initiatives to create a positive impact on the quality of your products so that you can meet specifications and make an impact on waste reduction.
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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
This course will introduce you to a manufacturing principle that promotes the initiation of tasks, or utilization of components to meet actual demands, which in turn empowers companies to optimize resources and reduce waste. A pull system is contrary to a push system. While we’ll introduce and define the two theories, this course will focus on how to design and implement a pull system in your standard processes.
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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
Value represents the need of the customer, the voice of the customer. If companies don’t pay attention to value, they may end up with unhappy customers walking away from them, resulting in a low brand reputation. Lean thinking enables companies to understand what customers are willing to pay for. If it is of no value to customers, then it is considered waste. Waste consumes energy, money, and is of no value to the customer. This interactive online course provides an approach to how Value and Waste are perceived by customers and how to remove steps that do not create value, promoting only those activities that do provide value.
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Duration: 0.25 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
Are you looking for a way to visually represent standards in your facility? Are the signs and charts you currently have posted efficiently managing a condition? In order to provide effective visual management, metrics and charts must represent accurate results in real-time. Visual management should provide an overview of status, or results with clear and evident data. This interactive course will introduce you to a manufacturing principle known as visual management, which provides a visual approach for communicating information.
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Duration: 0.75 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady
Six Sigma is recognized as a strategy that utilizes data gathering and statistical analysis to evaluate process performance and isolate sources of defects. This course covers the basic concepts of Six Sigma, it’s management methodology, and the techniques and tools needed for process improvements in order to help businesses run more efficiently.
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Duration: 1.00 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady
What is Lean Manufacturing and how can it be used to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company’s processes or services? Lean Manufacturing is more than just a method and a set of tools for improving processes, it is also a philosophy for how to do work every day. This interactive online course will provide you with a simplistic approach to Lean Manufacturing, promote a mindset change, and share the tools needed to implement value-creation processes with minimum waste. You will learn how to “think Lean” and apply Lean methods and tools to improve the quality and efficiency of your company.
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Duration: 0.25 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
Poor housekeeping practices create hazards in our workplace. The concept of housekeeping includes picking up, wiping up, and cleaning up. This course will cover the benefits of a clean workplace and how to practice good housekeeping.
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Duration: 0.25 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
Is your workplace a mess? Tired of spending hours searching for the right tool? This course will teach you about the 5S methodology, which focuses on organizing and standardizing the workplace to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Its five principles, sorting, straightening, sweeping, standardizing and sustaining, will make you and your co-workers better prepared to accomplish all of your tasks while being safer and more efficient in the process.
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Duration: 0.25 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video
Discusses the relationship between revenue, cost and profit. Illustrates the importance of reducing both big and small waste streams at a facility.
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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady
The 5S System is a set of universal principles and activities that sustain high performance in companies in any industry. This interactive online course will teach you how to focus the 5S System on safety. Understanding and following the 5S System for safety will give you the foundation to improve safety and productivity in your workforce.
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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady
Companies in many industries are turning to improvement approaches to maintain the high performance output that their customers demand. This interactive online course is the first of a four part series that teaches you how to carry out basic 5S activities in a target area of your workplace. The 5S System is a systematic approach that organizes and standardizes the workplace. It promotes safety, improved work flow, better product quality, reduced inventory waste, and above all a sense that you, the users, are in control of your work area.
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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady
An uncluttered, well-organized, and understandable workplace is an essential foundation for lean, low-inventory production. The 5S System is a systematic approach that organizes and standardizes the workplace. This interactive online course is the second of a four part series that teaches you how to complete a workplace scan and how to define a target area for improvement. You will learn how to remove excess and unnecessary items through the Red Tag Technique. You will also learn about the first step in the 5S system: Sort.
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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady
The 5S System is a systematic approach that organizes and standardizes the workplace. It promotes safety, improved work flow, better product quality, reduced inventory waste, and above all a sense that users are in control of their work area. This interactive online course is the third of a four part series. You will learn about the second step in the 5S System: Set in Order and how to organize your workspace. You will also learn about the third step in the 5S System: Shine and how to maintain your equipment.
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Duration: 0.50 Hrs
Course Level: Intermediate
Languages: English
Capability: Audio, Video, MobileReady
Many organizations are trying to reduce inventory waste and improve productivity through advance change initiative approaches. The 5S System will allow you to accomplish several specific benefits that support high performance in the workplace. This interactive online course is the final course in the 5S System series. This course will cover steps 4 and 5 of the 5S System: Standardize and Sustain. You will learn how to maintain and monitor the conditions that resulted from activities of the first three S’s through standardization. You will also learn the steps to follow to develop new habits in order to sustain the 5S System.
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