Course Summary:

Understanding Value-Stream and Metrics-Based Process Mapping

Course #L394
March 2-4, 2010
Lowell Center*, 610 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin
Course Fee: $1295 Discount Is Available

Benefits

Save time and improve your company’s ability to effectively identify and select continuous improvement projects using one or more process mapping methodologies.
This three-day course will help you understand the application of time-based process maps, swim lane process maps, along with preparing you with the knowledge and skills to electronically create, save, edit, and update value stream maps. The course includes an overview, demonstration, and hands-on exercise covering: material flow, information flow, data collections, standardization, calculations, visualization of VSM data, Kaizens, A3, and future state maps.

Topics

Benchmark the Lean Performance Continuum
Overview of different mapping methodologies
Application of time-based process maps
Application of swim lane process maps
Review or learn basic value-stream mapping symbols
Creating current and future state value stream maps using eVSM
Identifying continuous improvement projects
Creating an A3 project form

Audience

Industrial engineers, manufacturing engineers, Lean coordinators, value stream process engineers, process improvement specialists, Lean managers, continuous improvement managers, operations managers, six sigma green belts, six sigma black belts and others responsible for creating, interpreting, or updating value stream maps will benefit from this course.

Earn PDH, LU, CEU

By participating in this course, you will earn 20 Professional Development Hours (PDH) and 2 Continuing Education Units (CEU). Learn more about PDH, LU, CEU and state licensing boards.

General Information

Fee Covers Notebook and other course materials, break refreshments, lunches and certificate.

Cancellation Policy No-Penalty Cancellation To cancel your enrollment, you must notify us promptly. Please consider re-enrolling in a future course. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.

Accommodations We have reserved a block of sleeping rooms ($112/single; $127/double, including parking and Madison Taxi's silver cab from the airport) for course participants at the Campus Inn, 601 Langdon Street, Madison, WI. To reserve a room, call 800-589-6285 or 608-257-4391 and indicate that you will be attending this course under group code 95279. Room requests made later than February 8 will be subject to availability.

Course Location This course will be held at Lowell Center, 610 Langdon Street, Madison, WI. 608-256-2621

Course Discount Team Discount Fee: $1195 each, if two or more people from the same organization enroll in the course. Save $100 per person.

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