- Understand the basic principles of Lean Manufacturing and the strategic challenges for companies today

- Learn to spot dysfunctional production flows in their present state  Understand the meaning of the structural approach (Value Stream Management) used not just for local improvements but also to drastically reduce production time and costs 

-Understand the stages for switching from a traditional flow to a Lean flow: 
     - Identify the takt time and families  
      -Develop continuous flows and cells,  
      -Identify needs in SMED and Kaizen  
      -Implement and manage pull system flows
        (Kanbans) 
       -Implement good performance indicators 

- Identify priority improvement actions (5S, TPM, etc.), their organisational impact, and their phasing over time.

This intensive seminar will be based on a rather complex production simulation in which the participants will implement the Lean Manufacturing global approach in its logical sequence in order to obtain a radical performance change.

Lean Manufacturing is a fundamental approach for improving operating performance, which develops the capability of the entire company to respond flexibly, quickly, and effectively to the needs of customers by:
- Eliminating activities with no added value 
- Synchronising production flows
- Involving everyone in the ongoing search for improvement 

In order to be effective and provide the expected gains of drastically reducing time and costs, Lean Manufacturing requires a real plan of attack, provided by a global flow approach: the Value Stream Management, and not only by implementing local improvement techniques. It also requires teams to be mobilised in a global improvement dynamic.

Productivity has developed this seminar to enable Production managers to understand the boost in performance that a comprehensive, well-structured Lean Manufacturing approach can give them.