eLearning program gives a broad audience access to online lean training
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 1/21/2008 1:00:00 PM
TBM Consulting Group, a global business improvement leader for the manufacturing and service sectors, launched Essential Lean Learning, a comprehensive online interactive training program for lean awareness. Developed by TBM’s LeanSigma Institute, the eLearning program will give a broad audience access to online lean training and provide rapid knowledge transfer of basic lean concepts and applications.
The first comprehensive online awareness training program for lean, Essential Lean Learning can quickly familiarize employees with lean terminology and tools now used by Toyota and other highly successful lean enterprises. The curriculum consists of 12 progressive self-paced modules containing feature simulations and interactive exercises.
Courses include:
· Objectives of Lean and Why Organizations Should Embark on Lean Journey
· LeanSigma as Effective Business Strategy for Growth and Profitability
· Seven Categories of Waste
· Takt, Flow and Pull
· Role of Jidoka as Productivity Improvement Tool
· Production Smoothing
· Cycle Time
· Four Key Elements of Standard Operations
· 5S
· Value Chain Maps
· Kaizen
All modules are Web-based and easily accessible from any Web browser. Each course includes hands-on exercises and real-life examples to help students comprehend and apply what they’ve learned. Students finish with a 10-question quiz designed to test for comprehension. The entire curriculum takes approximately eight to 10 hours to complete.
“With lean becoming the major productivity tool embraced by global manufacturers around the world, TBM’s new eLearning curriculum provides organizations with a fast, effective, and affordable way to get everyone speaking a common language about lean at the convenience of the worker,” says Joe Panebianco, director and team leader, TBM LeanSigma Institute. “This is an opportunity to bring this productivity tool to the desktop and speed up the pace of a lean transformation.”
