Advanced Lean

   Module Duration: 38 min

This module explores the five Principles of Lean: Value, Value Stream, Flow, Pull and Strive for Perfection.

   Module Duration: 24 min

In this module, students are introduced to high-level process maps, specifically Macro Maps and SIPOC Diagrams. Coverage includes the purpose of each map, the steps necessary to create each map, and a demonstration of how to apply each map.

   Module Duration: 14 min

This module introduces the Fishbone Diagram, its purpose, and its application. It also explains how to construct a Fishbone Diagram.

   Module Duration: 17 min

This module explains how to create a Spaghetti Diagram, as well as how to analyze the results to reduce wasted movement.

   Module Duration: 15 min

This course describes how to build and analyze a cause and effect matrix, or “C&E Matrix.” The C&E matrix is a tool used for prioritizing the factors that have the highest impact on customer satisfaction, and choosing the correct factors that require further measurement.

   Module Duration: 30 min

This module explains the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) risk assessment tool, which identifies key errors, assigns severity, determines occurrence, and identifies the ease of detection of those errors.

   Module Duration: 32 min

This module defines the Lean concept of Pull, and how to build a Pull system to regulate the flow of production. As part of the discussion, it covers how to calculate lead time and work-in-process, Little’s Law, and Kanban.

   Module Duration: 43 min

This course teaches how to identify eight types of waste (non-value-added activities) and how to define value from the customer’s perspective.

   Module Duration: 97 min

The ability to understand and use statistical data is crucial to the success of any Lean Six Sigma project. This module introduces basic statistical concepts including populations and sampling, measures of central tendency, and measures of variation.

   Module Duration: 21 min

Surveys are an extremely useful tool to capture voice of the customer, whether that customer is external in the sense of a client or is internal as in an employee. This lecture, the third in the series, focuses on allowing us to evaluate and analyze the data collected through surveys using several Minitab routines: descriptive statistics, proportion testing, contingency tables, analysis of means (ANOM) and correlation.

   Module Duration: 33 min

This module discusses how visual management techniques can be used to enable process control. It provides examples of visual signals used across a variety of industries, as well as discusses a plan that can be used to implement visual management within a company.

   Module Duration: 27 min

This course discusses the concept of “Kanban” which simply means “visual signal.” It introduces how to use Kanban to control the movement and production of new inventory.

   Module Duration: 41 min

This course explains a primary Lean concept, value stream mapping, and its role in identifying waste in and between processes. The course reviews an 8-step process for creating a value stream map and discusses the analysis techniques used to interpret the data.

   Module Duration: 29 min

This module explains the concept of a “future state” value stream map. It discusses how to design the future, or ideal, state of a process take time. It also describes methods to achieve the future state, including spaghetti diagrams, cellular layout, 5S, and visual controls.

   Module Duration: 31 min

Mid-level process maps provide a clear and in-depth understanding of a process in order to improve it. In this module, students learn how to create a Process Flow Diagram that leverages Value Add/Non-Value Add analysis, and also how to create a Swimlane Map that correlates process steps with accountability.