Planning Lean Layouts with SLP
Monday–Wednesday • May 4–6, 2009
Hilton Garden Inn, Overland Park, Kan.
Course Outline
Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) is recognized throughout the world as the most organized way to develop layout plans. Thousands of projects have been completed successfully using the SLP approach. Leading companies have made it a standard practice in their Lean and Six Sigma programs. This course will prepare you to lead layout projects using SLP and to achieve remarkable results in record time.
Registration at 7:30 a.m.; classes begin at 8:00 a.m. and end on Days
1 & 2
at 5:00 p.m., on Day 3 at 4:30 p.m.
Day One
- Introduction to Lean Layouts
- What happens after the value stream map?
- Typical approaches to layout planning
- Twelve principles of lean layout planning
- Systematic Layout Planning (SLP)
- A Simple Exercise in Layout Planning
- Six-step procedure for planning any layout
- Case exercise and explanation
- Systematic Layout Planning (SLP)
- Four phases of every layout project
- Planning procedures and conventions
- Key input data and where to get it
- How to Analyze Flow of Materials
- Process charting and diagramming
- From-To charts
- Quantified flow diagrams
- Establishing & Charting Relationships
- Twelve reasons for closeness between activity areas
- The rated and reason-supported relationship chart
- Combining flow and other-than flow relationships
- Classical Types of Layout Plans
- Primary divisions of space
- Product-Quantity analysis
- Layout by product, process and fixed position
- Group technology and cellular manufacturing
- Typical benefits of manufacturing cells
- What top management wants to know before approving your plans
Day Two
- Review And Questions
- Estimating Space Requirements
- Five ways to determine floor space requirements
- Balancing needs with availability
- Recognizing features and types of space
- Case Exercise – Block Layout Planning
- Hands-on group work
- Guided application in block layout planning
- Key input data
- Flow of materials analysis
- Case Exercise Continues
- Combining flow and other-than-flow relationships
- Relationship charting
- Activity-relationship diagram
- Space relationship diagram
- Case Exercise Continues
- Adjustment into block layout plans and evaluation of results
- Evaluating Alternative Plans
- How to select the best plan
- Common intangible factors in layout planning
- Cost justification methods
- What top management wants to know before approving your plans
Day Three
- Review and Questions
- Detailed Layouts and Issues
- Case exercise – detailed layout planning using SLP
- Work Cell Planning
- Special considerations when laying out manufacturing work cells
- Ergonomics and workplace design
- Relationship of layout planning and standardized work
- Multi-Story and Multi-Building Plans
- Case example and illustration of multi-story and multi-building planning
- Facility and master planning with SLP
- Special issues: Stay or move? Split or combine?
- Visualization Tools & Techniques
- Methods of visualization
- Computer tools for facilities planning
- Software suppliers
- How To Lead A Layout Project Using Slp
- Organizing and managing layout projects
- "Out of sequence" projects
- Extended phasing on major, large projects
- Getting started with SLP
- How to run a lean layout workshop in your facility using SLP. Work plan, data requirements, spreadsheets you will need.
To Register, call Toll free 877-404-5823.
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