Lean Mastery

Certificate Program

The California State University, East Bay Lean Mastery Certificate provides executives, managers, supervisors and others the fundamental knowledge they need to help transition their companies to a "lean" culture.

Those who take advantage of Cal State East Bay's program will acquire a thorough grounding in all lean enterprise concepts, including lean theory, lean elements and rules, value stream mapping, TPM and DFMA. The authors of the course have successful, hands-on practical experience implementing lean worldwide and their curriculum is packed with examples, photographs, graphics, quizzes, progress tests, case studies and interactive "try this" exercises.

Offered in partnership with Gatlin Education Services, the program's online-only format makes it convenient for professionals anywhere in the world, not just those who live or work in the San Francisco East Bay Area.

Program Objectives

• To familiarize graduates with lean enterprise concepts and how the lean elements, rules and tools interact.
• To provide graduates an understanding of how lean concepts can be applied to the different operational departments of a business, how to get all those departments to participate and how these concepts can substantially improve the operating and financial performance of any business.
• To equip graduates with a stronger ability to recognize and eliminate waste, including an understanding of how limit-people-and-materials rules are integrated with the lean tools to accomplish that.
• To give graduates the ability to determine value added, non-valued-added and non-value-added-but-required activities.
• To provide graduates a complete understanding of the elements of Flow and Pull and how these are applied and a broad understanding of the concepts of 5S, Single Minute Exchange of Dies (Quick Change), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Kanban, Visual Workplace, Error-Proofing and Scheduling.
• To give graduates an understanding of the difference between lean metrics and traditional ones.
• To give graduates a grounding in the fundamentals of using "standard work" to eliminate process variation, an understanding of how to identify the value stream and areas that require improvement and an understanding of policy deployment and its critical role in any lean implementation process.
• To give graduates an understanding of Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) and how design influences cost.
• To provide graduates knowledge of the Kaizen process and how to use it to foster a lean culture.
• To give graduates an understanding of the complementary relationship between lean and Six Sigma processes.
• To equip graduates with the ability to develop a lean road map and implementation plan.

Who Should Attend

• Executives, managers and supervisors seeking to transform their companies into lean enterprises.
• All professionals seeking to help their companies substantially improve business performance.

Program Highlights