ENMA 6040:  Lean Systems

Course Schedule for Spring 2011

 

Dates are DUE dates for assignments

 

 

 

 

N indicates that class does not meet on this date

 

 

 

 

(OL) indicates lecture is available on-line

 

 

 

 

Class

Date

Class meets

Lectures

Team project deliverables DUE

Arena tutorial DUE

Reading assignment

Review questions DUE

1

17-Jan

Y

Principles of lean

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Downloading Visio (OL)

 

 

 

 

2

24-Jan

Y

Production system paradigms

Project overview

Start up

Toyota

RQ00

 

 

 

Process flow diagrams (OL)

 

Preface & Chapter 1

RQ01

3

31-Jan

N

Value (OL)

 

Serial vs. parallel processes

Chapter 2

RQ02

4

7-Feb

Y

Waste identification

Process flow diagram

Debugging and comparing models

Chapter 3

RQ03

 

 

 

5-S (OL)

 

 

 

5

14-Feb

N

Value stream (OL)

 

Electronic assembly process - 1

Chapter 4

RQ04

 

 

 

 

 

Dell

RQDell

6

21-Feb

Y

Flow

Waste identification

Electronic assembly process - 2

Chapter 5

RQ05

 

 

 

Pull (OL)

Waste identification template

 

 

7

28-Feb

N

Lean techniques (OL)

 

Modeling arrival and delay times

Chapter 6

RQ06

8

6-Mar

Y

Value stream mapping - 1

5-S review

Super Max call center - 1

Chapter 7

RQ07

 

 

 

 

5-S assessment tool

 

 

9

13-Mar

N

Value stream mapping - 2 (OL)

 

Super Max call center - 2

Chapter 8

RQ08

10

20-Mar

Y

Perfection

Value stream map

Kwik-E-Mart

Chapter 9

RQ09

11

27-Mar

N

 

 

Lean models - 1

Chapter 10

RQ10

12

3-Apr

Y

Lean certification exam (OL)

Visual controls

Lean models - 2

Chapter 11

RQ11

13

10-Apr

N

 

 

 

Chapter 12

RQ12

14

17-Apr

Y

 

Process flow simulation

 

Chapter 13

RQ13

15

24-Apr

N

 

Final presentation - draft

 

Toyota

RQ14

16

1-May

Y

Final presentation

 

 

 

 

17

8-May

N

 

Support materials

 

 

 

 

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