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Module 7
Lean Principles and Tools
The Lean philosophy, waste elimination and flow tools applied to garment cutting, sewing, washing and finishing.
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Start the applied assessment- 1Lean as a management philosophyAvailable
- 2The five Lean principlesAvailable
- 3Customer value and value-added analysisAvailable
- 4The seven wastes plus unused human potentialAvailable
- 5Garment-factory waste walkAvailable
- 6Current- and future-state value-stream mappingAvailable
- 7Flow, bottlenecks, and constraintsAvailable
- 8Takt time, cycle time, and pitchAvailable
- 9Line balancing for garment operationsAvailable
- 10Spaghetti diagrams and motion reductionAvailable
- 11Pull systems and WIP limitsAvailable
- 12Little’s Law and process-cycle efficiencyAvailable
- 13Kanban designAvailable
- 145S workplace organizationAvailable
- 15Visual managementAvailable
- 16Standardized workAvailable
- 17Poka-YokeAvailable
- 18Overall Equipment EffectivenessAvailable
- 19SMED and changeover reductionAvailable
- 20Heijunka and production levellingAvailable
- 21Theory of Constraints and the five focusing stepsAvailable
- 22The sea-of-inventory modelAvailable
- 23Pursuit of perfection and iterative improvementAvailable
- 24Lean tools knowledge checkAvailable
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