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Feb 10, 2025
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IE 4332 - Lean3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
Lean techniques can be used to improve any business process and make companies globally competitive. During this course students will learn to identify what is value-added and what is waste in any business process and to eliminate identified waste. Students will also learn the value of teamwork in a Lean Enterprise and will be introduced to the concepts of 5S, Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen. (prereq: MA 262 or equivalent)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Explain lean thinking and management methods
- Follow a phased process for Lean Enterprise implementation
- Describe the seven forms of waste in business
- Explain the five principles of lean and how to implement them in business
- Understand and be able to apply the concept of value add and non-value add activities
- Explain and prepare a value stream map
- Explain and calculate takt time
- Explain the difference between “push” and “pull” and apply tools to accomplish pull
- Explain and apply 5S, cellular layouts, and leveling
- Explain kaizen
- Explain and apply A3
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Toyota philosophy and culture, lean leadership, and lean wastes
- People development and team building
- Process stability, flow and value stream mapping
- Standard work
- 5S, cellular layouts, and level loading
- Total productivity maintenance
- Manufacturing cells and setup reduction
- Push vs. pull and kanban systems
- Kaizen and change management
- Toyota problem solving technique
Coordinator
Dr. Doug Grabenstetter
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