Lean Enterprise
If you have already completed one or two WPI seminars, you may be on your way to earning your WPI Certificate!
For further details, contact Sharon Deffely, Director of Corporate Training, at +1-508-831-5635 or sdeffely@wpi.edu.
Better, cheaper, faster... These are more than buzzwords in successful manufacturing organizations worldwide. To compete and to win in today's marketplace requires manufacturers to improve productivity while lowering costs and bringing quality products to market quicker than ever before.
In WPI's very practical seminars and workshops you will learn the basic characteristics of Lean: high flexibility; low inventory; keeping a few "key" measurements; small (or no) repair areas; high performance teams; benchmarking; strong leadership. And you will learn how these characteristics must be applied at your organization to meet and beat your competition. In WPI's programs in Lean Enterprise you will learn how to:
- Eliminate non-value added work
- Establish product (not process) cells
- Control and store inventory
- Create a visual manufacturing workplace
- Maximize the performance of your supplier base
- Empower employees
- Use a total cost approach in supply chain negotiations
- Increase production volume
- Develop effective costing strategies
- Lower product costs and shorten time to market
- Respond to your customers' ever-changing needs
Led by industry experts, these very practical programs feature a combination of lectures and workshops to help you apply the principles of lean manufacturing directly to the challenges of your own organization. If you are ready to step up and play an important role in your organization's move to lean status, enroll in a WPI lean manufacturing seminar today!
Workforce Training Funds
Learn more about grant funds available for Massachusetts companies. Call WPI at 508-831-5517 for information.
Certificate Program
WPI's Certificate Program in Lean Enterprise includes seminars and workshops that cover the principal topics of lean manufacturing as well as electives from WPI's programs in quality improvement, project management, management development, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. You'll choose from a wide range of options, selecting programs that specifically meet your training needs. Our experienced staff is available to help you plan your certificate program to meet your learning objectives. Read about the requirements for the program.
Seminars
- Value Stream Process Mapping
- Understanding and Implementing Lean Manufacturing
- Implementing the Five S + 1 System - Creating the Visual Workplace
- Poka Yoke Theories, Principles, and Applications
- Improving Cycle Time Through Setup Reduction (corporate only)
- Design for Manufacturability
- Strategic Supply Chain Management (corporate only)
- How to Implement Kaizen/Events (corporate only)
- Implementing a Successful Supplier Performance Process (corporate only)
- Negotiating Cost Reductions to Your Supply Chain (corporate only)
- Corporate Understanding and Implementing Lean for Professionals (corporate only)
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