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Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS
1 Introduction/Class Overview (PDF)
  • Team Projects
  • Class Survey
  • Desired Outcomes
  • Syllabus
  • Course Overview
2 Lean Fundamentals (PDF)
  • Lean Concepts and Principles
  • MIT Lean Enterprise Model (LEM)
  • Value Stream Analysis and Mapping (VSA/VSM)
  • "Mapping Your Value Stream" Video
3 Lean Enterprises (PDF)
  • Enterprise components and stakeholders
  • Enterprise process architecture
  • Three levels of enterprises
  • Enterprise value streams
4 Value and Enterprise Stakeholders (PDF)
  • Value creation framework
  • Identifying stakeholder values
5 Lean Manufacturing (PDF)
  • Concepts of lean manufacturing
  • Supporting toolset
  • Value Stream Map comparison of a mass and lean production system
  • Lean concepts and outcomes in manufacturing environments
  • SME Video
6 Lean Engineering (PDF)
  • Big Picture of Product Development
  • Product and Process Definition
  • Process focus
  • Value Stream Mapping an information process
  • Information wastes
7 Lean Supply Chain Management (PDF)
  • Introduction to supply chain management
  • Supply chain integration
  • Supplier partnerships and strategic alliances
8 Enterprise Information Flow (PDF)
  • Information characteristics and handoffs
  • Integrated information flow
  • Role of information systems in lean enterprises
  • Standardizing information flow in an enterprise
9 Integrated Concurrent Engineering (Guest Speaker)
10 Transition-To-Lean Roadmap (TTL) (PDF)
  • How do I transform to become a lean enterprise?
11 Integrated Supply Chains (Guest Speaker)
12 People/Organizational Issues in the Lean Enterprise (PDF)
  • Organizational objectives and structures (Allen)
  • Corporate culture and change (Schein)
  • The Horizontal Organization (Courtesy of Dr. Joe H. Mize; Used with Permission) (PDF)
  • Enterprise Level Waste (Courtesy of Dr. Joe H. Mize and Alexis Stanke; Used with Permission) (PDF)
  • Empowerment and motivation
13 Enterprise Tools and Technologies
  • Advanced computer tools
  • Web-based technologies
  • E-Commerce
  • Virtual reality, rapid prototyping, manufacturing advances, etc.
  • Systemic impact of tools and technologies
14 Knowledge Management Principles and Process (courtesy of Eric Rebentisch, Research Associate of CTPID) (PDF) 
  • Knowledge management basics
  • Implementing knowledge management (Slides courtesy of Scott Shaffer, Northrop Grumman) (PDF)
  • Human capital - creating and maintaining
15 Strategy and Measurement in the Lean Enterprise (PDF)
  • Strategy, positioning, and operational effectiveness (Courtesy of Cory R. A. Hallam; Used with Permission) (PDF) 
  • Metrics
  • Balanced scorecard approach
16 Lean Transformation: A Business Case (PDF)
17 Lean Enterprise Self-Assessment Tool (LESAT) (PDF)
  • How do I assess my progress?
18 Transformational Leadership (PDF)
  • Management vs. leadership
  • Leading organizational change
  • Leadership characteristics
19 Team Presentations - Part I & II
20 Enterprise Integration (PDF1), (PDF2)
  • Improvement vs. design
  • Strategies for enterprise architecting
  • Institutionalizing lean-sustainment
  • Caveats and risk mitigation
  • Global environment
21 Improvement Initiative Comparison (6 Sigma, TQM, Agile, Lean, etc.) (Guest Speaker)
  • Fundamentals of each initiative
  • Compare and contrast
  • Synergies - putting them together, tailoring an approach
22 Fundamentals of Enterprise Integration (Guest Speaker)
  • Interfacing vs. Integrating
  • "Enterprise engineering"
23 Student Presentations of Lean Enterprise Frameworks
24 Final Team Presentations
25 Final Team Presentations