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Professional Certificate in the Lean Enterprise

Earn a Professional Certificate in the Lean Enterprise, and gain practical knowledge that can be immediately applied to your work place. During this 13-week program, you and your project team will implement Lean concepts to your business, improving its quality while decreasing its costs. Whether you work in service, transactional activities, or manufacturing processes, your organization will benefit from the experience of our seasoned instructors.

The Lean philosophy is a strategy for achieving significant improvement in performance through elimination of waste in the total business process.

The Lean program introduces class participants to the Lean philosophy by incorporating learning tools that include simulations, exercises, lectures, and assignments.

Throughout the program, participants work in project teams applying the Lean concepts to their own workplaces. At the conclusion of the program, participants receive a certificate of completion.

Who Should Attend

All organizational levels planning and/or implementing a Lean initiative, including directors, managers, supervisors, leads and hands-on line staff
Professionals from medical device, health care, finance, fabricated metal, machining, plastics, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, electronics, and computer industries
Government and military contractors
Personnel from operations, finance, human resources, production, inventory control, new product development, manufacturing, quality engineering, and supplier management

Workplace Benefits

Improve quality while decreasing costs
Reduce inventory and remove waste
Develop a closer relationship with your customers

The SDSU Advantage

Free Lean mentoring sessions
Nationally recognized team of dynamic, experienced instructors
Lean administrative component
See Lean in action - three company tours

The Instructors
Joseph V. Colarusso, Rajendra (Raju) Deshpande, Dick Nordquest, Mike Osterling, John Robinson, and Ric Van Der Linden.

On-Site Lean Programs
To bring all or part of this program to your organization, call (619) 594-1138 for more information.

For complete details, call us at (619) 594-1138.

To find out how your organization can benefit through our Preferred Partner program, contact the Professional Development Division at (619) 594-5640 or email tmcleod@mail.sdsu.edu.

Congratulations to TaylorMade-adidas Golf for taking first-place honors during the final project presentations of the fall Lean Enterprise class!
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No courses offered during summer in this program. Fall 2008 course information will be available August 1.

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"SDSU's Lean Enterprise program has afforded me the opportunity to learn and grow in my administrative role in healthcare. Lean can be easily applied to all areas creating a more cohesive workforce focused on process flow and resulting in improved efficiencies and increased customer and employee satisfaction"

- Joann Sulfuro, Regulatory Compliance Coordinator, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group

"SDSU's Lean Enterprise program provides the optimal blend of classroom learning from seasoned professionals, with hands-on exposure to organizations successfully employing Lean. This training, coupled with the experience of completing a Lean project during the course, not only allows graduates to understand the basics of Lean, but provides the knowledge to apply them, and champion Lean at the enterprise level."

- Captain Kevin P. Gannon, CAPT SWRMC 100, Commander, Southwest Regional Maintenance Center

Lean Enterprise Certificate Topics

Lean Basics and Simulation
Lean principles, tools, and application. Interactive simulation teaches how to implement Lean principles to your operation achieving rapid and dramatic results.

Metrics and Incentives
Identify incentives that drive the outcomes desired in a Lean operation.

Value Stream Mapping - Current and Future State (with tour)
Map value streams and develop current state and future state maps of your organization.

Facilities Layout/Cellular Flow
Systematic team-based approach to designing and implementing cells, thereby increasing productivity, reducing inventory, and decreasing costs.

Administrative Lean
Eliminate waste in sales, order entry, new product design, inventory control/management, purchasing, invoicing, scheduling, production control, and accounting.

Strategic Continuous Improvement/Standard Work
Make Lean a part of any organization. Study Lean strategy, project selection, and implementation used by successful companies. Sustain a long-term focus on continuous improvement. An important final step, standard work allows Lean improvements to remain in effect.

Standard Work
An important final step, standard work allows Lean improvements to remain in effect.

Quick Changeover/Mistake Proofing
Change the long "set-up" from hours to minutes. Create a mistake-proof environment, not errors.

Visual Workplace and 5S
5S system results in less waste, better space utilization, higher productivity, improved morale, and a safer environment.

Change Management
Manage change through effective communication.

Kaizen Events
This focused, team approach gets fast measurable results, decreases resistance to change, and makes use of employees' intelligence and creativity.

Equipment Management
Total productive maintenance in the Lean facility, including equipment design and automation issues.

Team Project Presentations
Teams formed at the beginning of the semester will present results of their own Lean improvements. Projects will be evaluated to meet the experience requirements of the Bronze Level Lean Certification.

The Instructors
Joseph V. Colarusso, president of JVC Consulting, Inc., specializes in Lean enterprise consulting. Documented $212 million client savings. Expertise includes lean manufacturing, materials, sales, marketing, finance, inventory management, and distribution.

Rajendra (Raju) Deshpande National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certified lean manufacturing master trainer and implementer. Oversees check operation process for Bank of America. Holds MBA in management from California State University, Los Angeles; MS in mechanical engineering from University of Texas, Arlington; and BE in mechanical engineering, College of Engineering, Pune, India.

Dick Nordquest, president D&H Consulting, LLC., is former VP of process improvement at Guidant Corporation. Since 1993, has led over 400 international lean implementations.

Mike Osterling, certified trainer lean manufacturing implementation (University of Kentucky). CPIM certified and Six Sigma Black Belt. Lean transition consultant since 2000. Designed and deployed Lean management system at Square D Company. B.A. in production and operations management and his MBA in international business are from SDSU.

John Robinson improved maintenance processes for U.S. Navy warships for 20 years. As chief engineer, SUPSHIP, introduced lean manufacturing into a 350-person support organization. Conducted over 20 Lean improvements to complex manufacturing processes. Reduced maintenance infrastructure redundancy, achieving 300% ROI.

Ric Van Der Linden has trained, mentored, and certified 150 Green Belts/Lean resulting in a three-year accumulated savings of $20 million. As a champion of Lean and Six Sigma, has driven results in manufacturing, assembly, materials management, human resources, finance, health/safety/environment, quality management, facilities, and product design. Former manufacturing engineer with Honeywell.

San Diego Workforce Partnership - Creating Workforce Solutions for the San Diego Region

The College of Extended Studies is a State-approved provider
for the Federal Workforce Investment Act for this program.

Advanced Lean Enterprise Certificate

The Advanced Lean Certificate was developed as the next phase for companies already practicing Lean concepts to assist operations management, Lean champions, HR leaders and others deploying Lean within their organizations. The Advanced Lean program will also allow you to expand Lean to the non-manufacturing and administrative areas of the business. This course provides advanced knowledge in the implementation of Lean Enterprise principles and is designed for Lean practitioners who have earned the Lean Enterprise Certificate.

For complete details, call us at (619) 594-1138.

Instructors: Ric Van Der Linden, Joseph V. Colarusso, Karen Martin, Steve Ebbing, Jim McKechnie, Rich Gildersleeve, and Jerry M. Wright.

To find out how your organization can benefit through our Preferred Partner program, contact the Professional Development Division at (619) 594-5640 or email tmcleod@mail.sdsu.edu.

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Advanced Lean Certificate Topics

Non-Manufacturing Lean
Lean principles, tools, and application. Interactive simulation teaches how to implement Lean principles in office, service, and technical settings to achieve rapid and dramatic improvement in customer value and service.

Lean Supply Chain
Expand your Lean process to your supplier base. Develop effective solutions for long lead times, inconsistent quality, and leverage pricing. Gain pricing benefits and short replenishment cycles.

Lean Leadership and Strategy
Learn how to create successful, enterprise-wide lean transformation within your organization. Gain the strategic tools and methodologies which will allow you to target your efforts to complement and reinforce your strategic initiatives and address the accountability requirements of a Lean leadership team.

Tour
Interactive and up-front tour with a local business that is successfully implementing Lean principles. Lean from the "inside out."

Lean Product Development
Case study. Learn how one company transformed traditional product development by implementing Lean principles. The study will show how the number of new products released were doubled while cutting lead time in half!

Lean Six Sigma Integration
Learn how to integrate two process improvements and consolidate them into one continuous improvement approach.

Last update April 28, 2008

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