Welcome to the July 2006 edition of our monthly newsletter, Learning to Lean. In this month's edition, we complete our series on creating a lean supply chain.

Announcements

Our public workshop series for Fall 2006 has been announced. All classes will take place at the Doubletree Club Hotel Orange County Airport in Santa Ana, CA. We are offering three new courses this Fall including Lean Office, Lean for High Mix/Low Volume Manufacturing, and Lean Supply Chain.

Course (click on date to register/read more)	Date
Introduction to Implementing Lean	Aug 24, 2006
Kaizen Events: 5S, Visual Controls, and Mistake Proofing	Sep 14. 2006
Quick Changeover and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)	Sep 28, 2006
Lean Office: Value Stream Mapping for Administrative Processes	Oct 12, 2006
Lean and Value Stream Mapping for High Mix Low Volume Manufacturing	Oct 26, 2006
Lean Production Control and Inventory Mgmt.	Nov 9. 2006
Lean Supply Chain: Extended Value Stream Analysis	Dec 6-7. 2006

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

Lean for the Entire Supply Chain

In this issue, we feature three more articles that should help you understand more about creating a lean supply chain. One of the biggest issues in creating a lean supply chain is ensuring that your suppliers have achieved operational stability, which is the foundation of the Toyota Production System. Firstly, on our Lean Supply Chain blog, we offer you a brief discussion on operational stability and its relevance to the entire supply chain . Our second article talks about the tools of operational stability. In our third article, we focus on SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die), a tool that is often critical to achieving operational stability and leveling in a supply chain.

The materials referenced in this newsletter will teach you more about 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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