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Jim Newton, P.E., DEE
Course Outline
This four hour course provides valuable information for those individuals who are practitioners of lean manufacturing and also concerned with environmental effects of manufacturing. Completion of this course will provide the student the necessary information and testing to meet the continuing education requirements in order to renew their licenses. It was designed by an instructor who has developed and implemented numerous similar training courses.
This course includes a multiple-choice quiz at the end, which is designed to
enhance the understanding of the course materials.
Learning Objective
At the conclusion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand key questions that the toolkit addresses;
- Understand what an environmental waste is;
- Understand the importance of identifying environmental wastes;
- Understand how to know when you’ve identified environmental waste;
- Understand where to look for environmental wastes;
- Understand how to measure environmental impacts of a process;
- Where to find environmentally preferable alternatives;
- Understand the benefits of incorporating lean manufacturing and the environment;
- Be able to state the business case for integrating lean manufacturing and the environment;
- Understand how to enhance the effectiveness of lean manufacturing implementation;
- Understand the toolkit features;
- Understand items to consider when integrating lean manufacturing and the environment;
- Understand what value stream mapping is;
- Understand how to incorporate environmental considerations into value stream mapping;
- Understand how to analyze material use versus the need in a “material line” for value stream mapping;
- Understand how to expand value stream mapping to natural resource flows;
- Understand how to find lean manufacturing and environmental opportunities in future state value mapping;
- Understand what a Kaizen event is;
- Understand how to train lean teams to recognize EHS impacts;
- How to identify an EHS contact for Kaizen event teams;
- Understand how to use an EHS checklist for lean events;
- Understand how to proactively involve EHS staff in Kaizen events;
- Understand how to identify and find solutions for lean manufacturing and environmental opportunities in Kaizen events;
- Understand what is meant by 6S;
- Understand the six pillars of the 6S’s;
- Understand how to identify yellow-tag targets and criteria;
- Understand how to make and attach yellow tags;
- Understand how to evaluate and take care of yellow tagged items; and
- Understand how to incorporate EHS into 6S inspections.
Intended Audience
The intended audience for this course is any professional who is involved in the operation and management of a manufacturing operation that is interested in lean manufacturing.
Benefit to Attendees
Attendees of this course will under stand the benefits of coordination lean manufacturing and environmental concerns, how to identify environmental wastes, the basics of value stream mapping, Kaizen events and the 6S’s.
Course Introduction
Lean manufacturing (also called lean production) is a customer-focused business model and a collection of methods that focuses on the elimination of waste (a non-value added activity) while delivering quality products on time and at a low cost. Lean manufacturing works well when it focuses on identifying and eliminating non-value added activities. Environmental improvement efforts that have the potential to distract lean manufacturing from this prime focus will likely not get much traction.
This course will look at strategies and techniques that can seamlessly enable lean manufacturing practitioners to easily identify environmental wastes and improvement opportunities alongside the myriad other wastes and improvement opportunities uncovered by lean manufacturing. Case studies will be highlighted to illustrate key points.
This course is based upon the following document:
“The Lean and Environment Toolkit”
Please click on the above underlined hypertext to view, download or print the document for your study. Because of the large file size, we recommend that you first save the file to your computer by right clicking the mouse and choosing "Save Target As ...", and then open the file in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Course Summary
This course discusses the identifying environmental wastes, value stream mapping, Kalzen events, and 6 S’s.
Related Links
For additional information related to this subject, please visit the following websites or web pages:
US Environmental Protection Agency
Once you finish studying the above course content, you need to take a quiz to obtain the PDH credits.
DISCLAIMER: The materials contained in the online course are not intended as a representation or warranty on the part of PDH Center or any other person/organization named herein. The materials are for general information only. They are not a substitute for competent professional advice. Application of this information to a specific project should be reviewed by a registered architect and/or professional engineer/surveyor. Anyone making use of the information set forth herein does so at their own risk and assumes any and all resulting liability arising therefrom.
