Lean Production


 

Explanation

The company Power World has 7 employees (5 x production, 1 x logistics, 1 x maintenance) and manufactures wind turbines. Its manufacturing is based on the classic push principle. The first round of the game is characterised by overproduction, excessive stock levels, large batch sizes, unnecessary transport journeys, quality issues, and long set-up times, stoppages, and waiting times. Participants will gradually implement lean production and lead the company back into profitability.

 

Sense and purpose

The perfect game to comprehensively communicate lean production, as it gives participants impressive examples of how the most important principles of lean production work together. Use this game to comprehensively illustrate lean production to participants.

 

Learning content

– Push principle
– types of waste
– just-in-time
– “takt” or timing principle
– flow principle
– pull principle
– kanban
– supermarket
– 5S
– set-up time reduction
– batch size reduction
– poka-yoke
– preventative maintenance
– spaghetti diagrams

 

Information about the game

– Number of players: from 7 players
– Duration of each round: approx. 15 mins.
– Number of rounds: 2
– Duration for seminar: 1–2 days

 

Contents

– Model factory
– Comprehensive set-up and game documentation
– Training presentation Lean Production (Power Point)

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Lean Production