LAI Lean Academy® Short Course
July 9-11, 2007 | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA
Course Summary
The LAI Lean Academy® Short Course is a 3-day version of the highly successful weeklong event created by the Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) Education Network http://lean.mit.edu/leanacademy. This course will provide a hands-on introduction to lean and six sigma fundamentals.
The LAI Lean Academy® Course was originally designed for the aerospace industry and the concepts are applicable to many industries and functional areas. The LAI Lean Academy has been delivered in many different organizations including Rolls Royce Indianapolis, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Textron, Dover and Eglin Air Force Bases, The Universities of Alabama Huntsville, Iowa, Missouri Rolla and USC.
Who Should Attend
Lean concepts are appropriate for any functional area within an organization. Lean principles can be applied in every aspect of a business/government/non-profit operation, including manufacturing and factory management, logistics and supplier management, customer relations, office processes, product design and engineering, and curriculum design and delivery. There is no prerequisite for this class.
People who may benefit from this course include:
- Project managers and individual contributors who are new to lean concepts
- Senior program managers and team members engaged in organizational change.
- Engineers and engineering managers
- Project managers in Logistics, Quality and Supply Chain Management
- First and second level managers in manufacturing operations
- Government Air Force or Navy employees working on continuous improvement programs such as AFSO21, AirSpeed and others
- U.S. Army divisions working on six sigma, lean and other improvement projects
- Academic faculty and staff who are striving to incorporate lean principles into their curriculum and institutional processes
- Non-profit leaders embarking on change activities
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LAI Lean Academy® Seminar: Engineering
July 12, 2007 | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA
Course Summary
This course is a supplement to the three-day Lean Academy Short Course covering additional topics in Lean Engineering. The course will be built around a lean engineering framework, emphasizing the need to select the right design to meet stakeholder needs, perform engineering work in an efficient way within an efficiently designed organization, and integrate with the larger lean enterprise. The course material is based on the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT, the extensive experience of the instructors, and latest literature.
Specific topics covered will include the Lean Engineering framework, an introduction to tradespace analysis, how lean applies to product development processes, value stream mapping for product development (PDVSM), organizational design for lean, and integrating with the lean enterprise.
Benefits: Participants will leave with the ability to apply lean concepts to engineering processes. In a context of a leaning organization, this knowledge will greatly facilitate lean application to engineering and product development. In the context of a more traditional organization it should provide a vision for the future.
Who Should Attend
Engineering leaders and change agents that expect to lead lean change, and engineers who expect to execute it, such as:
- Managers of engineering departments
- Engineering personnel with responsibility for adopting lean six sigma techniques
- Academics teaching engineering process design
- Consultants involved in improving engineering processes
- LAI Lean Academy Alumni from engineering departments
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LAI Lean Academy® Seminar: Supply Chain Management
July 12, 2007 | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA
Course SummaryOrganizations that produce low-volume high-mix products typically face quite different supply chain design and management challenges compared to those engaged in high-volume production of standardized products for the mass market. This course discusses approaches to implementing effective supply chain management techniques in non-traditional environments.This course features the following concepts:
- Evaluating the current condition of your organization in terms of lean supply chain implementation and determining the strategic direction of your organization's supply chain management system.
- Implementing lean at strategic locations in the supply chain using enterprise value stream mapping.
- Introduces the benefits of collaboration in the supply chain.
Who Should Attend
This course will prepare the participants to initiate lean supply chain concepts at their organizations and enterprises. Participants will be provided with the knowledge and tools to evaluate their supply chain and begin the steps to implement enterprise wide improvement.
This course is targeted for executives and managers who are responsible for or interact with their organization's supply chain, such as:
- Managers of sourcing/supply chain departments
- Engineering and operations personnel with supply chain responsibilities
- Academic teaching supply chain curriculum
- Consultants involved in supply chain design and management
- MEP instructors and consultants
- LAI Lean Academy® Alumni involved in supply chain design and management
Participants should have a fundamental understanding of lean thinking, terminology and awareness of lean tools (value stream mapping) and concepts that can be applied across an enterprise.
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