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Companies are always looking for new ways to improve business efficiency and increase quality. To run a business at optimal capacity, you need to reduce or eliminate waste from processes and improve production flow.
In this course, you'll learn about Lean strategies to reduce waste by determining which operations add value and which don't. You'll explore the concept of continuous flow, and discover how to balance work processes to make production flow more efficient. You’ll define what waste is, where it exists, and what causes it. You’ll also examine aspects of muda, continuous flow, line balancing, and value and non-value-add, and practical Lean techniques for improving Operations Management.

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Objectives

Value, Waste, and Continuous Flow classify production activities as value-add, non-value-add, or necessary non-value-add identify strategies for eliminating waste caused by overproduction and inventory identify strategies for eliminating motion, waiting, and transportation waste identify elimination strategies for waste caused by overprocessing and defects match cycle time and takt time to their descriptions identify the final three steps for balancing a production line