Lean Manufacturing Live - The Essentials
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Increasingly, more manufacturers are adopting lean manufacturing to increase manufacturing flexibility, reliability and profitability. With Lean Manufacturing, manufacturers produce to customer demand rather than to suspect sales forecasts to identify and eliminate waste for improved quality and customer service.

Do you want to improve customer service? Increase sales? Lower production costs? Let MAMTC help you and your employees understand the basics of this revolutionary manufacturing philosophy. On-site training illuminates the potential of this valuable tool to help your business grow and prosper. A live simulation illustrates the essentials of Lean Manufacturing and encourages employee participation.

Lean Front Office
Move Beyond the Shop Floor

If it seems as if the front office just isn't keeping up with the rest of the world when it comes to Lean, you're probably right. Despite improvements in office technology, many offices operate from day to day buried under a tangle of waste - mounting paper, endless meetings, unnecessary policies, confusing and conflicting goals, reports nobody reads, errors and rework.

However, by applying all the same Lean tools used on the shop floor, a company can significantly streamline its office procedures for increased savings and improved customer service. Take your company to the next Lean level and let MAMTC teach your employees how to eliminate unnecessary steps from administrative functions.

Effective Value Stream Mapping
Locate Waste and Transform Your Operation

Are you looking for a way to speed up Lean implementation? Learn how to use Value Stream Mapping (VSM) to uncover hidden waste and eliminate its sources - once and for all. By using VSM, manufacturers can improve their cycle time, decrease excess inventory and work-in-progress and eliminate unnecessary - and costly - steps.

Participants will map the current state and future state for a product family, develop an implementation plan and present this plan to management.

Whether your goal is to learn the fundamentals of VSM or improve your existing mapping skill, MAMTC can customize its training to deliver expert guidance and valuable support. VSM can help you locate the waste to transform your operation, on the shop floor or in the front office.

Employing 5S to Organize the Workplace
Combat the Mess with 5S

Every organization suffers from some amount of workplace disorganization. However, few take the steps to disentangle themselves from the clutter, congestion and excess. Workplace disorganization can hamper morale and limit your workers' ability to do their jobs safely, effectively and efficiently. There is a method to combat the madness - 5S, a visual workplace system.

5S can help you transform your workplace into a visually oriented system of cleanliness, organization and arrangement - and keep it that way. It is one of the most important steps you can take toward a Lean, efficient operation. 5S is the tool you need to keep your facility clean, change poor work habits and sustain improvements over the long-term. More than just peace of mind, 5S can provide valuable savings and/or income.

Shop floor work combined with an optional simulation lets participants put these concepts into immediate action.

Whether your goal is to learn the fundamentals of VSM or improve your existing mapping skill, MAMTC can customize its training to deliver expert guidance and valuable support. VSM can help you locate the waste to transform your operation, on the shop floor or in the front office.

Set-Up Reduction Fundamentals
Stop Losing Valuable Production Time

Relentless pressures on the shop floor to eliminate waste and increase production flexibility make quick changeover and reduction in setup times necessities. When set-ups can be done quickly, they can be done often. That translates into significant benefits for manufacturers - including increased flexibility, faster delivery, reduction in defects and greater equipment productivity.

Don't let your equipment changeover and set-up eat into valuable production time. With a Lean step-by-step approach, set-up times can be reduced - sometimes by as much as 80%. Quick, accurate changeover can turn time into significant savings for your company.

For on-site workshops, the team videotapes the current set-up/changeover of a machine or operation. They then collect data and draw appropriate diagrams, analyze the data and develop an action plan with improved set-up/change-over times.

Implementing Pull/Kanban
Let Customer Demand Guide Your Inventory

You can eliminate bottlenecks. You can reposition machinery in cells. But your operation won't become any more efficient if you're simply making unwanted product faster. The real competitive advantage of Lean manufacturing is making exactly what customers want…in the quantity they want…when they want it.

A Pull/Kanban material system uses customer demand to trigger shop floor production activities, instead of relying on imprecise sales forecasts. Improve your response time and your inventory levels by streamlining how production flows through your plant.

Cellular Flow Manufacturing
Create Work Cells that Work

Are you serious about Lean improvements? Then it's time to get serious about work cells. Manufacturers who integrate cellular flow manufacturing to their operations reduce lead times, minimize work in process, optimize floor space and improve overall productivity. They do this by connecting and balancing the flow for a product family.

As customer demand grows for more flexibility, shorter lead times, higher quality and lower costs, work cells have become a necessity. Cellular flow manufacturing could be your weapon in the battle to meet these increasing customer demands and give you a competitive advantage.

Total Productive Maintenance
Make Zero Breakdowns a Reality

Do you know the real costs of a sudden breakdown of tools or equipment to your business? Unexpected breakdowns can wreak havoc with a manufacturer's schedule and can cost hours - even days - of valuable production time. With a sound Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) schedule, you can turn zero breakdowns into a reality.

MAMTC will teach you how to prepare and execute a TPM strategy that focuses on planning, scheduling and effective maintenance. Make the shift from reactive to proactive maintenance and take charge of your production equipment.

Kaizen Today - Improvement Tomorrow
Speed Up Lean Through Team-Oriented Problem Solving

In a traditional manufacturing setting, it could take weeks - even months - to identify a problem, propose a change to management, get their approval and get employees to change old habits. A kaizen event, usually lasting 5-8 days, shifts the change process into high gear.

When was the last time you made a change in an operation that boosted productivity dramatically - in just a matter of days? Learn how to facilitate this team-orientated problem solving strategy to speed up your Lean efforts to increase efficiency and generate savings.