ENMA
278: Lean Manufacturing
Course
Description
Businesses
of all types are faced with the increasingly-urgent challenge of providing more
sophisticated products and services for lower cost at higher quality levels in
less time. The purpose of this course is
to provide students with knowledge, tools, and experience in applying proven
continuous improvement methodologies derived from approaches such as the Toyota
production system. These approaches are
commonly grouped under the topic of “lean manufacturing”. This course addresses applications of lean
principles to service and general business systems as well as manufacturing
environments. Specific topics include:
·
Statistical
process control
·
Statistical
problem solving
·
Quality
and customer satisfaction models
·
Production
system paradigms
·
Value
and value stream
·
Flow
and flow constraints
·
Pull
systems
·
Waste
elimination
·
5-S
techniques
·
Theory
of Constraints
·
Throughput
accounting
This
course is application-oriented, with student team final projects focusing on
description and evaluation of a real-world product, service, or business
system.