Lean Manufacturing Enterprise Tech Group (Home Page)

Lean Manufacturing Enterprise Tech Group

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This group offers an important gateway to lean improvement through SME. We discuss, explore and advance lean across the enterprise by bringing members with common interests together to share knowledge and create problem-solving resources. Join the group, contact one of the tech group advisors or join the virtual group of the same name in SME's Lean Registry to get more involved with learning by doing together.

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Tech Group Strategy

Help us take this tech group to the next level (PDCA-P?)! The original members and advisors of this tech group helped bring about a lot of amazing results, including alliances with important partners, SME's Lean Certification program developed with AME and the Shingo Prize, SME's Lean Registry, numerous articles, webinars, books, videos, presentations and discussions. We now have freedom to experiment for the next level of advancement. What can we do better by working together? Why do we want to? How will you help?

At SME's 2009 Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Paul Demers from VMEC and
Dan Fleming from GBMP led a members-only workshop where he presented the following resources:

Leveraging a Lean Tool to Get the Right Things Done
Information & Presentations

A3 Session Resource List (PDF)
Leveraging a Lean Tool to Get the Right Things Done: PDCA and A3 Thinking (PDF)
Leveraging a Lean Tool: Part 2 (PDF)

Templates & Samples

X-matrix Template (MS Excel)
Anyorg Inc. X-matrix Sample (PDF)
VSM Action Plan Template (MS Excel)
ABC Instrument – VSM Example (PDF)
A3 Sample Chapter Spreadsheet Template (MS Excel)

Together Demers and Fleming showed how a volunteer group, chapter or company could assess: what they really want to accomplish, why and how to develop shared agreement and ownership for the endeavor. As you can see from the A3 Session Resources List (PDF), they used many excellent resources on the subject including many from our friends at Lean Enterprise Institute. LEI's John Shock provided excellent guidance in the early planning stages. The best way we can really appreciate this excellent volunteer help is to do something with it that will in turn help others on their lean journey. We experienced this of success from our earlier work in developing SME's Lean Certification program.

Strategy-Building Summary

Among all of our great activities, we are beginning another experiment for improvement by leveraging the Lean Manufacturing Enterprise Tech Group and the Lean Registry. Our aim is to create a more robust collaboration platform than Web pages and monthly conference calls. The volunteers and experts in the original group have really advanced learning and important collaborations over the last five years. Please consider joining this important group through the Lean Registry. We hope to develop a hybrid group of advisors to take us to the next level. In the meantime, we will continue to use this page to deploy updates, share some content and point to collaborating partners and events. We've done some good. We can do better if we work together with skillful means!

Lean Webinars

SME's Webinar Central, www.sme.org/webinars, highlights upcoming webinars and archives recordings for easy access. The archive includes a special section on
lean manufacturing. Many of these webinars were sponsored by the PPDM's tech groups and include topics such as lean leadership, lean-to-green and lean product development.

Lean Certification

We encourage you to consider enhancing your lean journey by getting on the Lean Certification path in collaboration with The Association for Manufacturing Excellence and The Shingo Prize. If you are interested in volunteering your lean expertise, visit the Lean Certification Volunteer Center.

Panasonic Adds SME's Lean Manufacturing Certification to its Credentials

We were excited to learn recently that Panasonic's Enterprise Consulting Group added SME's Lean Manufacturing Certification to its credentials. According to Panasonic, achieving key certifications, such as SME's bronze-level, is part of the Enterprise Consulting team's dedication to helping customers maintain their competitive position and excel in the industry. More

Review Courses

SME Chapters, universities and/or AME regions are starting to collaborate on review courses and related content to help people on their Lean Certification journey. Click here to see upcoming Lean Certification Review Course offerings developed by SME members. You too could develop an offering to serve the needs of your local community.

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Training Within Industry – "Featured Methodology"

Training Within Industry (TWI) is a set of learning disciplines that enable people doing work to effectively create, improve, train and sustain standard work themselves. TWI supported the U.S. war production effort during WW II. Despite great success, it was largely forgotten, yet it provides a basis of Toyota's core training even today. Inability to hold standard work is a major reason why lean initiatives stagnate. TWI is being re-born as a proven structured approach to sustain continuous improvement.

You can use TWI methodology wherever you need to teach people to quickly learn to do a job: correctly, safely and conscientiously. TWI takes us away from command and control "scientific management" to "management by science." Standards are set — as bases of comparison — and used as baselines for improvement now.

You can use TWI to ensure problem solving is embedded in daily work and structured improvement. This method creates a productive workplace environment where people are treated as individuals yet work together as a team, where jobs are performed the standard way by all operators and where problem solving is embedded in the work. TWI is not a "silver bullet" and requires disciplined deployment. It can start with you if developing the competence of your people is really important. More

TWI Resources

Problem Solving with TWI: Job Instruction for Semiconductor Manufacturing at IBM (PDF)
Training Within Industry DVD
Green Mountain No. 204
Training Within Industry Wikipedia

Lean Activities

Chapter lean tours, technical sessions and monthly meetings
Toronto No. 26: Human Side of Lean Special Tech Group



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