MFET 4350 - Principles of Lean Manufacturing

Credits: (2)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Online
This course introduces students to lean manufacturing and waste reduction concepts such as work standardization, visual manufacturing & workplace organization, value stream mapping, setup reduction & batch size reduction, quality at the source, point of use storage, total productive maintenance, pull systems/kanbans, tack time calculation and cellular/synchronous manufacturing design concepts.
A combination of lectures, videos and hands on exercise will be used.