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Lean Manufacturing:
Principles of Lean Manufacturing with Live Simulation

Get Employees Fully Engaged in the Lean Manufacturing Process

For your employees to support your company’s efforts to remain competitive, they must understand why and how a company can be busy, yet not productive or sufficiently profitable.

Catalyst Connection’s Lean Manufacturing Simulation Training helps your workforce understand the need for continuous improvement by placing them in a simulated manufacturing firm and showing them firsthand the difference in results when lean manufacturing techniques, rather than traditional ones, are employed.

During the simulation, participants are first asked to build actual products using a traditional approach. Then, in alternating presentation and application phases, participants are introduced to and have the opportunity to apply and measure the results of various Lean techniques including:

Improved information and product flow
Smaller batch sizes
Point of use storage
Quality at the source
5S and workplace organization
Pull systems
Cellular manufacturing
Simplified scheduling
Visual controls
Kanban inventory management

Following the simulation, participants work directly with Catalyst Connection’s expert advisors to identify improvement opportunities in your plant and learn how Lean Manufacturing can turn your busy factory into a more productive, more profitable one. This is a desired outcome, but it is not part of the Lean Simulation service.

Results

By helping employees understand, through their own direct experience, the need for and value of efficiency improvements, Catalyst Connection’s clients have realized: