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Course Overview

Continuous Improvement stands as a cornerstone for manufacturing operations in the current business landscape. The dynamic nature of the industry requires businesses to navigate through multifaceted challenges encompassing productivity, quality , service excellence, safety, and various other KPIs. In this environment, embracing a proactive approach towards improvement is needed  for sustained success.

This asynchronous course has been developed as an introduction to continuous improvement tools.

Course Objectives:

  • Increase your knowledge and understanding of practical concepts and approaches for improving quality and productivity
  • Increase your knowledge and understanding of lean manufacturing and types of waste in processes
  • Develop your skills in the use of planning tools for defining problems, root causes, and feasible solutions, measuring system performance, and managing projects to implement successful and lasting change

Course Outline

1 – Importance of Kaizen and Quality

2 – Problem Solving Techniques 

3 – Principles of Lean Manufacturing

4 – Affinity Diagrams and Interrelationship Digraph

5 – Tree Diagrams and Prioritization Matrices

6 – Eight Quality Improvement Tools

Instructor

Terry Mann

Terry Mann is a senior lecturer with the UW-Madison College of Engineering, and has an active consulting practice assisting companies in the implementation of ISO quality and environmental management system requirements. He is an Exemplar Global Principal QMS Auditor, EMS Auditor, Medical Device Auditor and Senior ASQ Certified Quality Auditor. Terry teaches courses on quality engineering topics, including ISO Standards, Six Sigma, operations management, statistical process control, design of experiments, cellular manufacturing, and facilities layout. He earned his Master of Science degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the UW–Madison.

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Program Director

Susan Ottmann

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