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FALL 2009 & SPRING 2010 SESSIONS

NEW! NEW!! NEW!!!

WEBINARS

Seven one-hour webinars on Lean Kaizen on each Monday from noon till 1 PM. PowerPoint materials will be provided. Sessions start on Monday, September 21 at noon and end on Monday, November 2. In Spring 2010, the webinars start on Monday, March 15 and end on Monday, April 26, again from noon till 1:00 p.m. Log in your computer at your desk or at home and learn from a Lean expert. Information on how to participate and log-in will be sent to each participant upon registration. Total fee for all seven sessions: $350 (includes text-book "Lean Kaizen" published by Quality Press, for reference). Participants, if they prefer, can also register for each individual session at a fee of $50, each (in this option, participants will get the text-book from Quality Press on their own). Contact George Alukal at galukal@hotmail.com for more information.

 

Lean webinars (Course # 077)  - 7 modules, 60 minutes each

 

 

Module #1

Fall:       September 21, 2009

Spring:  March 15, 2010

·        Introduction to “Lean”

·        Kaizen

·        Comparison of Lean to Six Sigma, TQM, ISO 9001

60 minutes

Module #2 

Fall:       September 28, 2009

Spring:  March 22, 2010

·        Process Improvement vs. Root Cause Analysis

·        Problem Solving Techniques in Lean; Lean Manufacturing vs. Toyota Production System vs. Lean Enterprise vs. Service Lean (e.g. Lean Healthcare)

·        Cost & Cycle Time Reduction;

·        Quality & On-time Delivery Improvement

60 minutes

Module #3

Fall:       October 5, 2009

Spring:  March 29, 2010

 

·        Introduction to the Lean Building Blocks

·        5S

·        Visual Management

·        Standard Work

·        Point of Use Storage

60 minutes

Module #4

 

Fall:       October 12, 2009

Spring:  April 5, 2010

 

 

·        Further Lean Building Blocks II

·        Streamlined Layout

·        Single Piece Flow & Batch Size Reduction

·        Quick Changeover

·        Quality at the Source

·        Error Proofing

60 minutes

Module #5

 

Fall:       October 19, 2009

Spring:  April 12, 2010

·        Further Lean Building Blocks III

·        Push vs. Pull

·        Just-in-Time

·        Pull/Kanban

·        Lean Cells

·        Total Productive Maintenance

60 minutes

Module #6

Fall:      October 26, 2009

Spring:  April 19, 2010

·        Further Lean Building Blocks IV

·        Hoshin Planning

·        Lean Teams

·        Leadership & Change Management in Lean Environments

60 minutes

Module  #7

Fall:       November 2, 2009

Spring:  April 26, 2010

·        How to conduct Lean Kaizen events

·        How to sustain Lean improvements

·        Quick Summary of Lean & Kaizen

 

60 minutes

 

 

Please email tiregistration@asqchicago.org about classes, registration, or any other questions or concerns you may have.

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