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Course Overview

Visual Management is one of the central principles of Lean. A visual workplace makes communication between departments easier, makes standards easier to follow, and makes abnormalities easier to detect.

This course explains why Visual Management is so effective and overviews some Visual Management Devices.

Explore foundational concepts, how to illustrate your workflows, numerous visual devices, 5S techniques, and success metrics with this Introduction to Visual Management.

Why take this course?

As a fundamental Lean tool, understanding Visual Management is important for anyone practicing Lean and 5S.

What am I going to learn?

  • The fundamental principles of Visual Management
  • The reasoning behind Visual Management
  • What defines a visual workplace
  • The 6 questions answered by Visual Management
  • How visual management is utilized in 5S
  • The 4 levels of Visual Management devices
  • The purposes of different Visual Management devices

Who is the intended audience?

Anyone interested in Visual Management, Lean, and/or 5S

What are the prerequisites?

As an introductory course, it is designed to be useful for anyone

What am I going to receive?

  • Videos that introduce the most important Visual Management concepts
  • PDF transcripts for your review
  • A list of the terms used in the videos and their definitions
  • Power Point presentations to support your learning
  • Images from the videos to use as you wish
  • A badge rewarded upon successful completion of the course

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Course Overview

A vast number of innovative tools and techniques of Visual Management have been created. Knowing the different options that are available and understanding how to use them is a key factor for success. This course explores how you can use these tools to visualize metrics and processes, display schedules, manage inventory, and standardize maintenance.

With this course, you can literally see the difference it makes in your organization. Transform your management style with this full inventory of Visual Management tools.

Why take this course?

Visual Management tools support many Lean methodologies. This course will show you how to use them effectively.

What am I going to learn?

  • How to design visual standards
  • How to create a skills matrix
  • Important factors for visual metrics
  • How Visual Management supports the flow of processes
  • How visual scheduling tools support Just-in-Time production
  • How Kanban are used to visually manage inventory
  • How visual management tools are used for Total Productive Maintenance

Who is the intended audience?

Anyone who wants to learn a wide variety of Visual Management solutions.

What are the prerequisites?

The content of this course is designed to be accessible for people of any knowledge level.

What am I going to receive?

  • Videos that explain the purpose and application of Visual Management tools
  • PDF transcripts for your review
  • A list of the terms used in the videos and their definitions
  • Power Point presentations to support your learning
  • Images from the videos to use as you wish
  • A badge rewarded upon successful completion of the course

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Course Overview

The path to Visual Management involves much more than just the application of visual tools. This course will teach you how to build a Visual Management culture and use these techniques to improve interaction with Suppliers and Customers.

Discover how you can develop your own customized Visual Management tools, and learn what is needed to maintain continuous improvement once Visual Management is established. This will allow your Visual Management techniques to keep up with your ever-improving standards.

Why take this course?

This course will teach you how to go beyond just implementing Visual Management, in order to create new techniques and continuously improve.

What am I going to learn?

  • Important steps for establishing Visual Management culture
  • How to engage the workforce and gain support for Visual Management
  • How to use Visual Management to improve interaction with suppliers and customers
  • How different organizations have customized their Visual Management tools
  • How to encourage suggestions for improvement using Visual Management
  • How to visually manage the progress of problem solving

Who is the intended audience?

Anyone who wants to fully integrate Visual Management into his or her company culture.

What are the prerequisites?

Fundamental knowledge of the Visual Management methodology and its basic tools would be helpful.

What am I going to receive?

  • Videos that reveal a high-level approach to Visual Management
  • PDF transcripts for your review
  • A list of the terms used in the videos and their definitions
  • Power Point presentations to support your learning
  • Images from the videos to use as you wish
  • A badge rewarded upon successful completion of the course

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]]> https://staging.uttana.com/course/the-path-to-visual-management/feed/ 9 Introduction to Lean Layout https://staging.uttana.com/course/introduction-to-lean-layout/ https://staging.uttana.com/course/introduction-to-lean-layout/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:00:22 +0000 http://staging.uttana.com/?post_type=course&p=2298 It's important to first understand the basic elements that comprise a Lean Layout. This includes concepts such as Just-in-Time, the minimization of...

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Course Overview

It’s important to first understand the basic elements that comprise a Lean Layout. This includes concepts such as Just-in-Time, the minimization of space and motion, and community engagement.

These concepts provide the foundation for many other Lean Layout concepts. A comprehensive understanding of these concepts will help with the smart utilization of other, more advanced concepts within your facility.

Why take this course?

To learn how to better utilize your current space especially when it comes to employee, inventory, and equipment placement

What am I going to learn?

  • The main methods and tools of a Lean Layout
  • The three fundamental principles that aid in maximizing efficiency
  • How Just-in-Time concepts play into layout design
  • How to incorporate the entire work community into layout improvement activities

Who is the intended audience?

Anyone looking to learn the basics of a Lean layout

What am I going to receive?

  • An outline of the benefits and principles of a Lean layout
  • PDF transcripts for your review
  • A list of the terms used in the videos and their definitions
  • Power Point presentations to support your learning
  • Images from the videos to use as you wish
  • A badge rewarded upon successful completion of the course

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Course Overview

In this course, the main focus will be on how to establish an efficient layout based on proper utilization of flow and equipment placement. This includes how the sequence of flow influences machine placement and how machinery is placed within a sequence of processes. Other topics include when and where to place storage spaces, and how to design a layout that is both flexible and agile. All these concepts also help facilitate the process of waste elimination.

Why take this course?

To learn how to optimize the equipment layout in your organization

What am I going to learn?

  • How equipment flow and process sequence are related
  • What efficient machine spacing looks like
  • How to deal with designated storage spaces in your current layout
  • The advantages of flexibly positioned equipment

Who is the intended audience?

Anyone looking to improve a layout heavily influenced by required equipment

What am I going to receive?

  • Instruction on designing a better equipment-based layout
  • PDF transcripts for your review
  • A list of the terms used in the videos and their definitions
  • Power Point presentations to support your learning
  • Images from the videos to use as you wish
  • A badge rewarded upon successful completion of the course

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]]> https://staging.uttana.com/course/designing-equipment-layout/feed/ 3 Utilizing Personnel in a Lean Layout https://staging.uttana.com/course/utilizing-personnel-in-a-lean-layout/ https://staging.uttana.com/course/utilizing-personnel-in-a-lean-layout/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:00:36 +0000 http://staging.uttana.com/?post_type=course&p=2294 There are many topics involved in the most appropriate utilization of personnel in a Lean Layout.

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Course Overview

There are many topics involved in the most appropriate utilization of personnel in a Lean Layout. These topics include why and how to use counterclockwise flow, the idea of walking minimization, how to design a production area for a single individual, and the concept of a Waterspider and how it impacts your system as a whole.

Why take this course?

To better organize the layout of personnel within a new and improved layout

What am I going to learn?

  • How counterclockwise flow is advantageous in a work cell
  • How the simple act of walking negatively affects your business (and how you can reduce it)
  • How to create a very efficient one-person work cell
  • How Waterspiders aid a Lean Layout

Who is the intended audience?

Anyone looking to maximize the way people operate in any process layout

What am I going to receive?

  • Instruction on the best utilization of personnel within a Lean Layout
  • PDF transcripts for your review
  • A list of the terms used in the videos and their definitions
  • Power Point presentations to support your learning
  • Images from the videos to use as you wish
  • A badge rewarded upon successful completion of the course

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]]> https://staging.uttana.com/course/utilizing-personnel-in-a-lean-layout/feed/ 0 Line Flow in a Lean Layout https://staging.uttana.com/course/line-flow-in-a-lean-layout/ https://staging.uttana.com/course/line-flow-in-a-lean-layout/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:00:03 +0000 http://staging.uttana.com/?post_type=course&p=2290 When establishing the best possible flow for a layout, there are a number of considerations that must be taken into account.

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Course Overview

When establishing the best possible flow for a layout, there are a number of considerations that must be taken into account. These considerations include making important design decisions, such as the placement of a process’s entrances and exits, and the work position of an employee.

Flexibility of your design will also be paramount so that emerging obstacles to your flow can be addressed. This course covers how to handle all these considerations, to best keep your facility functioning efficiently.

Why take this course?

To design a layout that optimizes efficiency for line flows

What am I going to learn?

  • How the entrance and exit points to each cell is important
  • How the inflow and outflow of material should be improved
  • How the work position of people can help or hurt your design
  • What common obstacles to flow are and how you can overcome them
  • How important the flexibility of your line’s components is

Who is the intended audience?

Anyone looking to design or improve work cell layouts

What am I going to receive?

  • Instruction on line flow
  • PDF transcripts for your review
  • A list of the terms used in the videos and their definitions
  • Power Point presentations to support your learning
  • Images from the videos to use as you wish
  • A badge rewarded upon successful completion of the course

 

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]]> https://staging.uttana.com/course/line-flow-in-a-lean-layout/feed/ 0 Equipment Flow https://staging.uttana.com/course/equipment-flow/ https://staging.uttana.com/course/equipment-flow/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:00:19 +0000 http://staging.uttana.com/?post_type=course&p=2292 When designing a layout, it is important to consider how equipment layout encourages and enables flow.

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Course Overview

When designing a layout, it is important to consider how equipment layout encourages and enables flow. To ensure that flow and layout interact in the most efficient way possible, there are a number of guidelines that can be followed.

This course covers how to best use 3P (Production, Preparation, Process) for efficient layout improvements, and how to make these improvements in the quickest, most accurate way possible.

Why take this course?

To solidify your understanding of design and implementation of improved layouts

What am I going to learn?

  • How to approach the stage between design and implementation
  • How to utilize the 3P process to ensure quality work

Who is the intended audience?

Anyone looking to complete their knowledge of layout improvements

What am I going to receive?

  • An explanation of incorporating equipment in your flow designs
  • PDF transcripts for your review
  • A list of the terms used in the videos and their definitions
  • Power Point presentations to support your learning
  • Images from the videos to use as you wish
  • A badge rewarded upon successful completion of the course

 

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Course Overview

This course gives you a broad look at the ideas, concepts, and history that make up Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). From its roots in the teachings of W. Edwards Deming to success at the Nippon Denso, a parts supplier for the Toyota Motor Corporation, this popular maintenance technique strives to reduce defects, assess your inputs and outputs, and boost your productivity.

Topics covered include: the “zero-oriented” concept, abnormalities, losses, and TPM activities. With this information, you will be able to start improving the way your organization utilizes its equipment as part of a Lean system.

Why take this course?

The effectiveness with which an organization utilizes its equipment resources is a key factor for success. This introduction to TPM will start you off on the right track.

What am I going to learn?

  • The fundamental principles of TPM
  • The History of TPM
  • How TPM can benefit you organization
  • The 6 major losses
  • The 7 types of abnormalities
  • How to interpret different types of inputs and outputs
  • The fundamental structure of TPM activities
  • The definition and purpose of the “zero-oriented” concept

Who is the intended audience?

Anyone interested in ways to improve equipment performance and fundamental Lean methodologies.

What am I going to receive?

  • Videos that provide a solid foundation of TPM knowledge
  • PDF transcripts for your review
  • A list of the terms used in the videos and their definitions
  • Power Point presentations to support your learning
  • Images from the videos to use as you wish
  • A badge rewarded upon successful completion of the course

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Course Overview

Autonomous Maintenance is an essential part of the TPM process. With this system, operators are able to prevent equipment errors by following and developing standards. This is accomplished through effective education and training.

This course examines the roles and responsibility for your TPM team, how to draft standard work for Autonomous Maintenance, and how to educate your team so everyone is on the same page. Finally, this course walks you through implementation in 7 easy steps.

Why take this course?

The ability of operators to maintain their own equipment is essential for an effective TPM program. This course will show you how it’s done.

What am I going to learn?

  • The primary goals of Autonomous Maintenance
  • How responsibilities are distributed in Autonomous Maintenance
  • Major educational categories for Autonomous Maintenance
  • How to introduce Autonomous Maintenance and train personnel
  • How to develop standards for Autonomous Maintenance
  • The distribution of responsibility for creating standards
  • How to implement Autonomous Maintenance in 7 steps

Who is the intended audience?

Anyone who wants to implement TPM.

What am I going to receive?

  • Videos that explain Autonomous Maintenance and provide step-by-step guidance
  • PDF transcripts for your review
  • A list of the terms used in the videos and their definitions
  • Power Point presentations to support your learning
  • Images from the videos to use as you wish
  • A badge rewarded upon successful completion of the course

What are the prerequisites?

A basic understanding of TPM principles.

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