Attend this webinar to learn how to set up and use kanbans, JIT, pull system, and drum-buffer-rope in medical device and biotechnology manufacturing start-up operations. Also, attendees will learn elements of lean documents and lean configuration, sterilization lot size, MRP II kanban system and how to use kanbans to track off-site sterilization and external supply chain, suppliers. Leraning Objectives are:

• Myths about lot size and local efficiencies
• Myths about documentation and support systems
• An alternative way to track yield losses during product builds
• Preparing kanban cards and bins to control both in-house inventory and external supplier inventory
• Smart ways to track variable information using kanban cards (example lot number, PO number, WO number, due dates)
• How to use kanbans for R&D prototype work
• How to simplify paperwork to allow smaller lot sizes
• Smart ways to simplify receiving a verification
• How product shipments trigger new builds

This webinar will explain how to set up and use kanbans all the way from purchasing and procurement to receiving, receiving the inspection, component stock, work order picking/staging, assembly, packaging, finished goods, and sterilization. Combining the principles of a visual workplace with kanban bins and cards, this webinar will demonstrate step-by-step how to create a demand-pull system to achieve the right balance of inventory and throughput throughout your startup operation. The hands-on use of Drum-Buffer-Rope from Theory of Constraints (TOC) will also be covered.

Lean cannot be just about product and process. Based on the speaker’s extensive experience in the arena, this webinar will also discuss the elements of lean documents and lean configuration, since the principles of lean must permeate throughout all systems, not just the manufacturing supply chain. This webinar is essential to introducing lean principles from the company’s earliest stages.