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4 PDHs / 0.4 CEUs
30 days
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Course Description
Waste is inherent to businesses and can result in slow production, inefficient inventory, and other costs associated with production, making process efficiency and continuous improvement essential components of running a successful fabrication business. First pioneered by the Toyota Motor Company in the 1930s, lean thinking quickly became a guiding principle for Motorola and many other prominent companies. This new course will build on these principles and provide training to eliminate these issues and teach learners to refine their production process, train their workforce, and scale up their businesses.
Lean Management for Welding Productivity is a self-paced course that is a powerful resource for business owners looking to improve their processes and increase profits. The course covers fundamental concepts, like the types of waste you can eliminate from your processes and provides tips for implementing lean management in a welding operation. Upon completion, participants will understand how to improve their business processes using lean management ideas and tools.
- Anyone involved in the supervision of production as it pertains to welding or allied processes
- Anyone affiliated with a service provider tied to welding and fabrication
This student body may encompass many positions, including:
- Welding sales representatives
- Welding supervisors
- Shop owners
- Apply the principles of lean management in a welding environment
- Implement lean tools and methods to optimize a welding business
- Differentiate value-added and non-value added activities and their impact on manufacturing processes
- Utilize lean tools like 5S, root cause analysis, SIPOC diagrams, and more to help assist with implementing lean in a welding operation
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of Lean Management for Welding Productivity, students will be able to:
1
Analyze the basics of lean management
2
Explain the basics of the Six Sigma methodology
3
Discuss the history of Lean Management
4
Differentiate between mura, muri, and muda
5
Identify the 8 wastes of lean management
6
Implement customer-first thinking
7
Differentiate between customers and consumers
8
Explain the Kano Model of customer needs
9
Differentiate between various value-added and non-value-added activities
10
Choose the best strategies for managing your workforce
11
Identify the current and ideal states of a business
12
Explain the concepts of Kaizen, Kaikaku, and Hoshin
13
Explain how Kaizen can be used to take a business to its ideal state
14
Align a business using Hoshin vantage points
15
Discuss how 5S can be used to create and maintain respect for the workplace
16
Explain the concepts of push, pull, and one-piece flow
17
Differentiate between the batch and queue style of fabrication and one led by pull
18
Explain various production cell designs for efficiency

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