Your journey of reducing waste, optimizing processes, and engaging your team starts here. Just-in-Time manufacturing (JIT), popularized by Toyota in the 20th century, remains the time-tested cornerstone of any lean organization. Its principles have lifted businesses out of crises and propelled them to heightened levels of profitability.

Whether you are a lean sensei who is continuously learning, or a beginner new to the world of lean manufacturing, this course is for you. While basic knowledge of lean is helpful, ultimately there are no prerequisites. The course is ideal for lean practitioners, operations managers, line supervisors, business leaders, and quality professionals alike who want to set a lean example. JIT manufacturing will improve your on-time delivery, reduce inventory, increase morale, and ultimately save costs.

This course is a comprehensive review of JIT. At the end of this fun and engaging course, you will successfully learn:

• The history and origins of JIT,

• How to use takt time to reduce overproduction,

• The seven wastes in lean that increase your costs,

• Continuous flow with techniques like SMED and workcells,

• Pull system techniques like kanban and CONWIP, and

• The way to plan a lean transformation for your plant.

The instructor is an independent lean manufacturing consultant with over five years of experience implementing the Toyota Production System in a range of manufacturing environments. Notably, this includes machining, fabrication, casting, extrusion, stamping, final assembly, aseptic manufacturing, packaging, electronics manufacturing, and inventory management. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering.