Introduction to Customized Lean

Topic outline

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  General
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  EuroLEAN+ Video Series Introduction

  Welcome to this series of video lectures on Lean for Customized manufacturing. On these video lectures we will present you different production control methods that are suitable for High-Variety/Low-Volume production environment. Some of the concepts to be explained are: Kanban, Conwip, Copacabana, Polca.

   

   
  

  Lean is becoming increasingly more common in low-volume, high-variety production environments (e.g., for customized product manufacturing). Some alternative approaches for “Customized Lean” do exist, but these are far less known. To unify this body of knowledge a transnational approach is required. 

  The video lectures are given by different people from different universities:

  • Ghent University  in Belgium
    
  • HAN University in Netherlands
    
  • Osnabrück University in Germany
    
  • NTNU in Norway
    

  
  
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  Introduction to EuroLEAN+

  Presenting EuroLEAN+

  The EuroLEAN+ partners introduce the EuroLEAN+ project.

   

   
  

  “EuroLEAN+ is responsible for creating the future knowledge in customized lean through simultaneous engagement of academia and project-based industry”. EuroLEAN+ project allies with partners from Norway, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany

  The EuroLEAN+ Work Packages

  The EuroLEAN+ partners present their work packages: Knowledge Community, Knowledge Base, Online Master Course and Feasibility Study for a Joint Master Program
  

   

   
  

  1. EuroLEAN+ will create an open Customized Lean Knowledge Community that brings together higher education students, academic staff and industrial manufacturing companies to create, capture, reuse and disseminate the knowledge on Customized Lean.
     
  2. EuroLEAN+ Knowledge Base: A knowledge base of case studies and best practices will be created that brings together the knowledge that is currently scattered across the partners and their contacts with many SMEs in various industries. 
     
  3. Online Master Course Customised Lean: The elements for master program will be created.
     
  4. Feasibility Study for a Joint Master Program: EuroLEAN+ has the ambition of developing an Erasmus+ joint master program (JMP) with the current partners.
     

  EuroLEAN+ Presents: QRM Seminar

  
   

   
  

  On 22nd of June, a seminar on Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) organised by EuroLEAN+, was held at NTNU in Trondheim. Over 50 participants from Norwegian companies got the opportunity to learn about Lean in Customised Manufacturing.
  
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  Additional Material on Customized Lean

  Watch the following videos and look at the additional material below. Finish the topic by making the quiz to test if you understand everything.

  
  

  
  

  • A New Set of Principles for Pursuing the Lean Ideal in Engineer-to-Order Manufacturers File
  • Webpage: Center for Quick Response Manufacturing URL
  • Start Quiz about the basics of Customized Lean
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  Lean (recap)

  General introduction of Lean Manufacturing. We expect you to know everything that is listed below. You could decide by yourself if you need to study this material. Therefore, this part is optional for for participators of the course. 

  • Start Quiz about the principles of Lean
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  The basics of System Thinking of processes

  • Start Quiz about the basics of System Thinking of processes
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  Assignment of the week: System drawings

  "explanation of the assignment of the week with additional literature (if necessary)"