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Full-Level: Lean Management: Creating a Lean Structure in the Laboratory

6.0 Contact Hours ($59.99) Welcome to Lean Management! Lean Management is the development of leadership, operational structures, processes, people and synergistic activities that align the entire organization towards continual improvement. In this course, we will learn about quality and understand the path of our historical leaders that pursued operational excellence. Based on the lessons from […]

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Full-Level: Introduction to Lean: Tools and Concepts Specific to Laboratories

6.0 Contact hours ($59.99) Welcome to Lean 101! In this this course, we will define the principles, methods and tools of LEAN adaptable to specific laboratory work processes. We will understand how to identify and eliminate the 8 deadly wastes referred to as non-value add activities. Based on the principles and concepts of LEAN, we discuss

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Full-Level: Adapting Toyota Principles to Laboratory Workflow

6.0 Contact Hours ($59.99) Welcome to Adapting Toyota Principles to Laboratory Workflow! In this course, you will learn the principles of the Toyota Production System translated as operational, specific and adaptable to create a waste free, continuous flow laboratory. Through the study of these principles, we learn tools, fundamentals of work rules, practical examples and

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Full-Level: Value Stream Mapping: Design Waste-Free Laboratory Processes

3.0 Contact Hours ($29.99) Welcome to Value Stream Mapping! You will learn the concept of designing a simplistic value stream map based on your laboratory process. We will develop a current state map by understanding how to identify the supplier, customer and 5-7 high level steps in between. The learner will identify non-value add and value-add

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Full-Level: Observation: Go, See, and Ask “Why?”

6.0 Contact Hours ($59.99) Welcome to Observation in the Laboratory Observation in the laboratory is a “go and see” event that allows us to understand actual value-add activities in comparison to wasteful defective processes. We will discuss types of waste in the laboratory and understand how to conduct an observation in the area of focus. We

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