Welcome to the June 2005 edition of our monthly newsletter, Learning to Lean. In this month's edition, we complete our series on the basics of lean implementation.

Announcements

We are offering a public lean certification program. Click here for details. 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
Introduction to Implementing Lean	Sep 7, 2005
Value Stream Mapping	Sep 21, 2005
Creating Continuous Flow Manufacturing Cells	Oct 5, 2005
Material Flow and Kanban	Oct 19, 2005
Lean Production Control and Inventory Management	Nov 2, 2005
Kaizen Events: 5S, Visual Controls, and Mistake Proofing	Nov 16, 2005

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

Implementing Lean

Last month we covered some of the key tools that are used in process kaizen: Standardized Work, Quick Changeover, and Total Productive Maintenance. This month's focus is external relations in a lean enterprise, the discipline of extended lean beyond your four walls.

This month we feature a presentation we did for APICS last month plus three articles that should help you understand more about effectively implementing. Firstly, we give you an overview of supplier relationships in a lean enterprise. Our second article talks about the seven wastes of the extended value stream. In our third article, we talk about Toyota's approach to supplier relationships.

The materials referenced in this newsletter will teach you more about implementing lean effectively. If the articles, links, and books to the left have piqued your interest and 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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