Lean Management: Just-In-Time Training and Certification

Lean is a business process improvement methodology that is focused on identifying waste and eliminating it. Lean Management has become extremely popular in recent years due to its ability to bring about rapid improvement in your business process. Lean Management comprises of several tools and techniques including Value Stream Map, 5S, Poka-Yoke, Genchi Genbutsu, Jidoka, and much more.

Just-In-Time is a critical Lean tool; in fact, it is one of the two pillars of the Toyota Production system, the other one being Jidoka. The Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing system is a planning system for manufacturing processes that minimizes the availability of material inventories at the manufacturing site to only what, when, and how much is strictly necessary. The Just-In-Time (JIT) system is an integrated set of activities designed to achieve high-volume production using minimal inventories; raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods and other consumable goods.