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This free preview includes 30-day access to CPIM Part 1 Section D: Lean.

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Explain the philosophy and methods of lean production, including its objectives, its two pillars of just in time and jidoka (use of automation and worker empowerment to ensure quality), its foundations of standardization and operational stability, and its culture of continuous improvement and employee involvement
• Show how lean production systems and other quality systems embrace continuous improvement as a way of life
• Review lean tools and techniques that can be used to implement continuous improvement, including hoshin planning, kaizen events or blitzes, value stream mapping, poka-yoke, and the five S’s