(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) will run 13 workshops April 3–5, 2012, in San Antonio, Texas, addressing the technical and social aspects of lean manufacturing and lean service transformations.

The curriculum also will help you understand lean as a complete management system that requires less capital, material, space, time, or human effort to produce products and services with fewer defects and to precise customer desires when compared with traditional management techniques.

The schedule is as follows:
April 3
• Visual Workplace
• High Mix/Low Volume Lean
• Lean Product Development
• Management Standard Work
• A3 Management Process (two days)
• Value-Stream Mapping for Office and Services

April 4
• Developing People for Lean
• Strategy Deployment (two days)
• Lean's Key Concepts (two days)
• Managing High Mix/Low Volume Lean
• Managing Value-Stream Improvement (two days)

April 5
• Coaching Skills for Lean Leaders
• Lean Problem Solving

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