Implementing Lean Manufacturing
14th - 15th October 2009, Legend Hotel Kuala Lumpur
What is Lean Manufacturing?
Lean manufacturing also known as "Lean" is a management approach that aims to maximize the customer value while minimizing waste. A lean organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste.
Numerous companies have benefits from implementing this concept in their manufacturing environment and the results are astounding. Some of significant effect that most of the companies experiences are:
- Financial improvement - due to lower manufacturing cost, improved inventory management and higher quality production.
- Increased productivity
- Improved inventory management
- Quality and customer growth
What will this workshop do for you?
This workshop aims to assists you in understanding the importance of agility in management and the cornerstone of lean manufacturing. You will also learn to outsource business activities which do not add value to your overall business, improve productivity and service. Lean and agile manufacturing systems emphasizes on cost control, allows streamlining of resources and align them towards corporate direction (vision). Lean manufacturing also ensures you to focus and gain control on equipment, material & inventory placement and position. You will also learn to apply control techniques to eliminate erosion of improvements.
The 8 Important Lessons you will learn during this 2 day workshop
Lesson 1: Introduction to Lean Management
- Lean Characteristics and Benefits
- Lean Management System
- Why Lean Management?
- How to go lean?
- A lean & Agile Manufacturing
- Cornerstone of Lean Manufacturing
Lesson 2: Agile Management
- A step on from Lean
- Different views on lean- vs- agile
- Establishing Foundations for Lean and Agile
- What is Lean Manufacturing?
- What is World Class Manufacturing?
- The importance of speed towards cycle time reduction
Lesson 3: Continuous Improvement & Lean Management
- The Kaizen concept
- Why Kaizen?
- Targets for Kaizen
- The Kaizen umbrella
- Cornerstones of Kaizen
- 3M's of Kaizen
Lesson 4: Improving Business Performance
- Time Based Competitiveness
- Some Rules
- Capability of Processes and the Changes
- Capability / Variance
Lesson 5: Key To Lean Manufacture
- Measurement
- OEE Example Calculations
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Six Sigma
Lesson 6: JIT Systems For Lean Management
- What is JIT?
- Basic elements of JIT
- Examples of waste
- Kanban production control system
- SMED Principles
- Reducing set-up times
- TPM ( Total productive Maintenance )
- Visual controls
- Benefits of JIT
- JIT implementation
Lesson 7: Lean Management Tools
- Deming Wheel ( PDCA Cycle )
- The Quality Circle process
- Pareto Chart
- Flowchart
- Check sheet
- Histogram
- Scatter Diagram
- Control Chart
- Fishbone diagram
Lesson 8: Lean Management Implementation
- Total Lean System Implementation
- Lean Management System Implementation Plan
- Action Plans
Why should you attend this workshop?
You will learn the 4 essentials skills that will help you to ensure the smooth implementation these powerful strategies in your organization.
You will learn how to:
- Construct a systematic approach for implementing Lean Manufacturing practices
- Build a roadmap that will lead your organization to successful implementation of Lean Manufacturing techniques
- Get the workers involved in the first stages of measuring their own processes to identify hidden problems
- Build your own Lean Assessment to measure your organizations progress in the journey to implement Lean Manufacturing techniques
Course Leader
Mr Thanabalan has extensive experience in the field of operations performance improvement particularly in various manufacturing and services industries. He is not only an excellent and resourceful trainer; he is also skilled in management and leadership of organizations. He graduated with a Honours degree in Management and Biochemistry from University of Science Malaysia in 1987. He also has an MBA from University Kebangsaan Malaysia, majoring in General Management.
Mr. Thanabalan has been in training and consultancy industry since 1996. He also lectures in University of Malaya and University of Technology Malaysia on a part-time basis as a visiting lecturer. To date he has conducted many public and in-house trainings in many business areas for government organizations and private sector.
Participants receive enhance benefits and impactful results from his training programs because of his vast industrial exposure in various areas. He empowers people to increase their limits, level of commitment, higher level of performance of the individual, team and the organization in achieving organizational goals.
What others have said after they have attended Thanabalan workshop
“Benefit to apply in working environment”
Khairul Rozee b. Mohamad, Panasonic AVC Networks KL Malaysia Sdn Bhd
“Learn new ideas that could help to improve myself”
Edwin Charles Balakrishnan, Performance Additives
“Overall is interesting as the instructor showing a lot of time events based on his experience”
Noor Azam Din, Proton Holdings Tanjung Malim Sdn Bhd
“Informative sessions by having examples discussed and shared during the sessions”
Richi Lim, Assembly Services Sdn Bhd
“Mr. Thanabalan has vast experience and able t share his experience and knowledge with everyone”
Chong Kem Fatt, Onkyo Asia Electronics Sdn Bhd
Who Should Attend: Factory / Production Managers, Executives, Engineers, Team-leaders, Supervisors and any personnel who would like to improve their productivity and personal effectiveness on the job.
Workshop Size: Registration is strictly to the first 25 people. This cannot be altered. If the past is any indication of the future, spaces fill up very quickly. If you are interested in attending, call us now or download the registration form here and fax it back to us at ++6 03 40235716.
HRDF Claimable: This workshop is claimable under the HRDF SBL Scheme. Checks with your department to make sure you are eligible.
Tax Deductibility: In all likelihood this seminar is tax deductible. Check with your accountant to be sure.
Workshop Investment $$: RM 1690.00 per delegates. This includes all workshop materials. Lunch will be provided.
Early Bird Offer!!
If you register yourself EARLY, you will enjoy a discount of RM100.00. For more information, please refer to the registration form here.
Group Discount!!!
If you register in group of 3 persons or more, you will enjoy additional 5% discount, and if your group are 5 persons or more, you will get a much greater discount of 7%, and 10% discount shall be entitled for group of 8 persons or more. So get your friend or colleagues to register with you!
100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
We understand that some of you don't know us. That is why we make this workshop a 100% satisfaction guaranteed. If for any reason whatsoever you don't feel like you have received more than your money worth by lunch break, simply hand in your materials for a complete 100% refund. No weasel clauses, no hassles, no questions asked. We won't lie, as rarely we have to make refund to our participants; however is our integrity which makes our business successful.
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