Continuous Flow

Overview

Continuous flow brings velocity to your organisation. With continuous flow each process flows smoothly into the next one driving down lead times, inventory and floor space, thus boosting capacity and improving quality with minimal investment. Delivered in-house, this course follows on from our Value Stream Mapping course.

Course Objectives

Having developed a current and future state Value Stream Map, this course takes lean implementation one step further. Participants are taken through the development of standard work, layout for flow and work balance with the power of continuous flow demonstrated through simulation exercises.

When delivered in-house, the second day is spent on the shop floor applying the learning within a real value stream.

Key Skills / Learning Objectives

Through the combination of interactive discussions, tutorials and case studies, our course will enable the delegates to:

• Apply continuous flow as a lean technique to produce products efficiently with minimum resources and reduced lead time
• Identifying opportunities for continuous flow and its limitations
• Develop standard work and find and fix problems within the flow context
• Balance the work against the customer demand

Practical workshops are designed to reinforce the discussions and topics. This style of delivery makes the course both memorable and enjoyable for participants, ensuring long-term learning.

Course Outline (Full Course Programme)

• Overview of Lean strategy and principles:
  • The concept of Value Add, Non Value Add and the seven wastes
  • The importance of continuous flow
• Development of standard work
  • Repetitive and non-repetitive work
  • Breaking the work down into elements
  • Timing the work
  • Documenting standard work
• Developing the Operator Balance Chart (OBC)
  • Calculate Takt time and cycle times
  • Distributing work and developing options
  • Constraint management
• Cell design and equipment layout and material movement for optimum balance
• Levelling the production mix (including Quick Change Over review)
• Sustaining the gains

Further development opportunities suggested would be the facilitation of a 3-5 day Kaizen workshop to implement continuous flow in selected areas.

Who Should Attend?

• Individuals involved in lean deployment with experience of Value Stream Mapping
• Production operatives, team leaders or supervisors
• Engineers involved in lean deployment

Booking and Course Fees

Fees include:

• Delegate workbook, including reference information
• Training provided by qualified and experienced tutors with extensive practical management auditing experience across a variety of manufacture and service industries
• Certificate verifying attendance and completion of course

This course is for delivery in-house only. Offering better value for money, in-house training can be customised and designed to meet specific individual and company needs.

Please Contact us to discuss your in-house requirements.

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