1. Describe what a Lean enterprise emphasizes.
2. Define Waste, including components and relationship to the customer.
3. Describe value-added including what it must do and the relationship to the customer and standard of performance.
4. Describe where and when lean concepts were first practiced.
5. Describe what the Toyota Production system was developed to do and what it was recently reintroduced as.
6. Describe the basic components of lean.
7. List and provide examples of types of waste
8. List the categories of waste.
9. Describe the components of workplace organization in terms of the 5S’s.
10. Describe the concept of flow and its major elements
11. Describe JIT.
12. Describe the basis of products and services that are pulled through the system.
13. Describe talk time.
14. Describe visual management, including the types of displays used and the use of signals.
15. Describe Kaizen, including blitz Kaizen, what it encourages and who is involved.
16. Describe what Kaizen relies on.
17. Describe value stream, including activities and to whom it is directed.
18. Describe the perfect value stream in terms of what operations are.
19. Describe what a value stream map does.
20. Describe the theory of constraints and the result of improvement of the constraint.
21. Describe the components of the suggested approach to lean implementation and the role of senior management.
22. Provide examples of the benefits to lean enterprise.