Welcome to the April edition of our monthly newsletter, Learning to Lean. In this month's edition, we focus on two key lean manufacturing principles, one-piece flow and pull.

Announcements

Friday 04/06 is the last day to register for our 04/19 "Material Flow and Kanban" workshop at the early registration price.

The following individual public courses may be taken separately or as part of a certificate program. We can also bring any of these courses to your facility.

Course (click on date to register/read more)	Date
Creating Continuous Flow Manufacturing Cells	Apr 5, 2007
Material Flow and Kanban	Apr 19, 2007
Lean Production Control and Inventory Mgmt.	May 3, 2007

Click here for details on all of our training offerings, both on-site at your facility and public.

Flow and Pull

In their book Lean Thinking, Womack and Jones identify 5 key principles of lean: Specify Value, Identify the Value Stream, Create Flow, Let the Customer Pull, and Seek Perfection. We are covering two of those principles, flow and pull, in this month's newsletter.

This month's edition features three articles that should help you understand more about these principles. Firstly, we offer a new article that covers one piece flow implementation. Our second article talks about pull systems. In our third article, we talk about heijunka, which is important to applying both principles.

The materials referenced in this newsletter will teach you more about implementing lean. If you would like to learn more, feel free to call us at 866-559-5598 or visit our website and click on "Contact Us."

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