Advanced Workshop: Line Design for the Lean FactoryA Lean Factory Group Workshop

Date: August 30-September 1, 2011 3-Day Workshop

Time: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Location: Toyota Material Handling USA National Customer Center 5559 Inwood Drive Columbus, IN 47201

Cost: $1,495/person, Lunch included.

Workshop Details

The Lean Factory Group is an association of like-minded companies committed to Lean philoso-phies and methods within their organizations and within industry. Members include: Bosch Rexroth, Leonardo Group Americas, Orgatex, Toyota Mate-rial Handling and Omron STI.

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Attendees will receive a complete copy of the LeanRoadMap® for Line Design, the Mixed Model Implementation Guidebook, and a CD with all necessary forms, software tools, worksheets and checklists.This workshop is graciously hosted by Toyota Material Handling USA.

Workshop AgendaMixed Model Line Design. The future of manufac-turing belongs to multi-product manufacturing, but few Lean practitioners are competent in mixed-model line design. A primary goal of this workshop is for participants to learn these skills, and to be able to apply them immediately in their home factory environment.

Beyond Lean Basics. Take the leap beyond 5S, Value Stream Mapping and SMED to where the real process improvements take place: Line Design. This workshop is led by the authors of Fundamentals of Flow Manufacturi-ing, world-renowned experts in mixed-model line design from Leonardo Group Americas, with presentations from industry experts from the Lean Factory Group.

Physical Implementation. Students learn best by doing, and this Advanced Workshop will include the actual implementation of all of the line design tools in a simula-tion environment. Participants will design the production environment, and then build an actual product using production-level hardware.

Toyota Plant Tours (3). Once a day, partipants will have a chance to compare what was learned in the classroom, and applied in a simulation environment, to what is actually done at a factory that was awarded “Plant of the Year” in 2010. The plant tours will be led by seasoned Toyota experts, with a focus on the line design tools being applied in the classroom.

Lunchtime Q&A. Managers and engineers from Toyota will host a Q&A session during every lunch period, to answer questions about what was seen on the plant tours.

Designing the Ultimate Workstation. An important part of the line design effort is the optimization of the physical work area. In this module a representative in workstation design from the Lean Factory will implement the workstation optimization checklist.

Visual Factory Tools for Line Design. Being visual and being Lean go hand-in-hand. Complete the physical line design implementation with guidance from the Visual Factory experts at the Lean Factory Group.

Optimized Material Delivery. Experts from the Lean Factory Group will present a module on the optimization of material delivery, as a critical component of the optimal line design.