Lean Material Handling school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

This workshop will teach you how to create a material movement and handling system for purchased parts from the receiving door to the shipping door. It focuses on how to transition from a mass-production material-handling system to a lean system that reliably supplies purchased parts to continuous-flow cells, small-batch processing, and traditional assembly lines.

Benefits:
You’ll learn how to implement a lean material-handling system for purchased parts that delivers precise quantitie...

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This highly interactive two-day workshop is for people responsible for implementing lean principles in a distribution center operation.

The workshop combines lecture, group discussion, participative simulations, and group exercises to reveal the key steps for implementing lean principles in a traditional distribution operation. Topics include the development of a storage environment that enables a conventional distribution facility with improved efficiency, quality, safety, and space util...

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This practical 2-day course covers how Lean can be applied to supply management processes to improve overall information and material flow. Participants will learn how Lean supply management:

Reduces material costs and lead times
Improves product quality
Reduces material shortages
Reduces material obsolescence
Improves inventory turns
Improves inventory accuracy
Creates the situation for planners and schedulers to work on projects that increase value to the organization<...

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