ISL 512E - Lean Production

Course Objectives

The objective of this course is
1. To teach the basic concepts and characteristics, advantages/benefits and possible challenges of lean production systems, introduce the concept of waste, fundamentals of lean thinking philosophy, interactions and relationships of lean production systems with other management systems and information technologies, basic processes and techniques for designing, developing, establishing, implementing and improving leand production systems by using case studies and best-practices from industry.
2. To provide a systematical, analytical and managerial perspective for benefiting from lean production systems in solving problems of and improving the production systems by elaborating the need for alignment of corporate strategies and objectives with lean production systems and by explaining the impact of lean production systems on improvement of quality and effectiveness and hence on the cost and resource savings, change capabilities and agile organizational competencies they may bring to provide higher levels of competitive advantage of production enterprises

Course Description

Basic concepts of lean production, Lean production tools and methods, relationships of Lean Production with other production and management systems, links to strategy and culture, employee involvement, improvement teams, Planning for lean process implementation and the necessity of sustain improvements, Examples of applications in manufacturing and business processes