This week’s topics
Lean Operations and Waste Reduction
- The Toyota Production System (TPS)
- The eight forms of waste (Muda)
- 5S workplace organisation
- Just-in-Time (JIT) and Kanban
- Value stream mapping (VSM)
- Lect 58-JIT and Lean Operations
- Just in Time & Lean Systems
- Just in Time - 7 Wastes to Eliminate
What you will be able to do
- 3.2 Analyse the concept of lean operations and waste reduction
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse the concept of lean operations and waste reduction
Study materials
Videos
- Just in Time & Lean Systems · YouTube · Dr. Haywood · 9 min · for registered students
- Just in Time - 7 Wastes to Eliminate · YouTube · Dr. Haywood · 5 min · for registered students
- Lean in Healthcare: The 7 (or 8) Wastes · YouTube · Devon Partnership NHS Trust · 9 min · for registered students
- Lean in Healthcare: One Piece Flow · YouTube · Devon Partnership NHS Trust · 6 min · for registered students
- Just-in-Time (JIT) in Healthcare: The Truth About Supply Chain “Shortages” · YouTube · Mark Graban: Lean Leadership & More · 62 min · for registered students
- Lean Healthcare Is NOT About Cutting Costs (Here’s What It Really Means) · YouTube · Mark Graban: Lean Leadership & More · 6 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Operations Management (Fanshawe), ch. 16: Just-In-Time and Lean Systems · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 687–714 · for registered students
- MIT OCW 16.660J Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods (IAP 2012), Lean thinking part I · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
- MIT OCW 16.660J Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods (IAP 2012), Value stream mapping basics · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
