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1.COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Lean Course offers a practical introduction to lean management principles and techniques. The course is tailored to help student implement lean manufacturing in business environment to improve productivity, business resilience, and to reduce waste. In particular, the course:
Offers an overview of lean manufacturing techniques and initial advice on how to implement them in a business context.
Offers enough knowledge on lean management such that managers can make fully informed decisions about whether or not to adopt lean management, what lean techniques or tools are relevant to their particular environments, and the additional steps that might be necessary to implement lean management in their specific environment.
Presents a set of core lean management principles, tools, and techniques that are relevant to most manufacturing and service business models. The students, however, may note that some principles are more relevant to their particular form of business than others.
- COURSE CONTENTS AND SCHEDULE
No.
Contents
Time Allocation
Contribution to CLO
Hour(s) on the class
Essays, exercise,
Assignments...
(3)
Self-study with teacher’s tutorials
(4)
Lecture
(1)
Practice, Seminar…
(2)
1.
Introduction to Lean Management: Lean Philosophy and Principles
2
1
1.5
5.5
1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
2.
The Concept of Lean Thinking
2
1
1.5
5.5
4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
3.
Identifying Waste in the Production Process
2
1
1.5
5.5
2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
4.
Value Stream Mapping
2
1
1.5
5.5
2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
5.
Lean Management: Applying Waste Elimination Practices
2
1
1.5
5.5
3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
6.
Re-Thinking Production Flow (Lean Technique).
2
1
1.5
5.5
4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
7.
Error-Proofing
2
1
1.5
5.5
4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
8.
Mid-term test
1
2
1.5
5.5
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
9.
Push and Pull systems in Lean Manufacturing
2
1
1.5
5.5
4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
10.
Push and Pull systems in Lean Manufacturing (cont.)
2
1
1.5
5.5
4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
11.
Lean Management and Lean Inventory Management
2
1
1.5
5.5
4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
12.
Total Productive Maintenance
2
1
1.5
5.5
4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
13.
Lean Leadership
2
1
1.5
5.5
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
14.
Lean Leadership (cont.)
2
1
1.5
5.5
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
15.
The Organization that Renews Itself
3
0
1.5
5.5
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Total (hour)
30
15
22.5
82.5
- COURSE ASSESSMENT
- Score ladder: 10
- Type of assessment
Form
Content
Criteria
CLO
Proportion
Formative
Attendance and Involvement in class
Attendance checking: randomly and minimum of 5 times
7, 10, 11, 12
10%
Summative
Mid-term test
*Exam format: written exam in 45 minutes:
- Content: issues have been studied.
- Students are not allowed to use any material during the exam.
*Group work
- Content: Students will form groups around 7 to 9 members and the groups are assigned a case study and/or a topic related to an organization. The specific cases and topics will be informed specifically at the beginning of the course.
*Written Exam:
For multiple-choice and filling in the blank questions:
Provide clear and reasonable answers
*Group work:
+ Clear and feasible topics (2 points)
+ Logical analysis, straight to the point, practical refection (5 points)
+ Use of variety of references, vivid examples (1 point)
+ Coherent writing, precise citation (2 points) Total: 10 points
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
30%
Final Exam
- Exam format: written exam in 60 minutes
- Content: issues have been studied
- The written exam consists of both multiple-choice questions covering all chapters and essay questions which require the application of knowledge in practice.
- Students are not allowed to use any material during the exam.
+ For essay questions: Concise answers to 2 essay questions (4 points)
+ For multiple-choice questions: Correct answers to multiple choice questions (6 points)
Total: 10 points
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
60%
Total:
100%
Guidance: Base on learning outcomes, what teaching method, learning method and evaluation are needed to achieve these learning outcomes and evaluate the level of achieving learning outcomes. Department should build criteria to assess measuring level of course learning outcomes (according to Rubric)
- Types of assessment
- Requirement for assessment when suggesting assessment method
Value
Measure exactly what is needed to be measured (assessment criteria/factor should be correlative with knowledge/skills demonstrating in respective learning outcomes).
Reliability
Assessment from two teachers/lecturers who evaluate the same task of student or from one teacher/lecturer in different time.
Fairness
Students are provided information about assessment criteria.
Scoring bases on specific criteria.
Students are completely instructed knowledge, skills needed to meet assessment criteria.
- Assessment methods
Performance Based Outcomes
Demonstration, presentation, simultation, role play, work sample, performace test
Project, lab test, fieldwork, thesis, practicum, portfolios
Knowledge Based Outcomes
MCQs, short essay questions, posters
Case studies, long essay questions, critiques, journal/blogs
Low Order Thinking Skills
High Order Thinking Skills
SUITABLE ASSESSMENT METHODS (knowledge)
Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create
MCQ
MCQ
Open questions (allow to use materials)
Case study
Evaluate published articles
Create product model
Standardized test
Fill in the blank
Group project
Presentation
Evaluation essay
Thesis, dissertation, poster
Quiz
Quiz
Practice, experiment
Project
Evaluate problems
Compose
Summarize book, documentary
Speaking test
Business model
Case study
Start-up