At the end of this program, the participants shall be able to:

• Understand the TPS Operational Excellence Framework.
• Guidelines to create a Lean Value Stream.
• Learn tool kit and develop skills to make a current state "AS IS" VSM
• Learn tool kit and develop skills to draw the desired state "TO BE" VSM
• Learn to draw the "AS IS" and the "TO BE" Maps.
• Ask pertinent key questions on the "AS IS" state before visioning the "TO BE" State.
• Product Family Matrix.
• Material and Information flow VSM icons.

Participants will be working on real time cases in their industry projects to build AS IS and TO BE mapping.

• Learning by doing approach: The entire program is divided into 5 sessions

• Quiz question sets in every session to ensure participants have understood the topics.
• Assignments after 3^rd and 4^th sessions ( 2 sets of assignments ) to ensure participants not only learn the theory, examples, case studies during training but also become competent to practice by themselves.
• Participants to complete the assignments of developing AS IS and TO BE mapping
• AS IS mapping of their project will be discussed during session no. 4
• TO BE mapping of their project will be taken up for discussion during session no. 5
• Soft copies of Training Material and Case studies will be given after the training.

The program is designed to ensure participants can effectively learn and implement VSM in their on projects in the industry.

This course is targeted for Managers and Engineers from Design, R&D, NPD, Manufacturing Engineering, Production and those who would like to implement Operational Excellence. It will also benefit managers and quality supervisors from machine tool, automobile and auto ancillaries, toolrooms, aerospace and general engineering.  

This program will be delivered by Mr Anand Deshpande

 He is an experienced Operational excellence professional with:

• A degree in Production engineering and an MBA from HULT International business school
• Total 30 years of experience, including 14 years of global experience and 11 years of consulting experience.
• Global experience in Operational Excellence and leading practitioner of LEAN.
• Work experience with the likes of Ford Motor Company, Dell, Philips and Deutsche Bank Operations International.
• Author of the book: 'Making Apparel Manufacturing Lean'.