assignment

This week students need to take the process improvement project defined . Follow the grading Rubric .

1. Waste Audit – Review the online lecture and pg. 12-15 in The Lean Pocket Handbook for Kaizen Events. After completing this with textbook and supplemental article readings, you should have sufficient knowledge to critically identify wastes in your defined process. Challenge your current thinking about the process when analyzing potential issues (see waste you never quite saw before, target 3 per category).

2. Analyze a Waste - Select any of the process analysis tools covered in your textbook, supplemental articles, or lecture in the Week 4 lesson to further evaluate the process for a critical waste or issues discovered in the audit.

3. Review Audit – Review the results of this assignment with other process owners or stakeholders as identified in Assignment 1. Get their feedback and input into your Waste Audit and Analysis (update step 1 and 2 above from this input). Explain how this review was completed.

4. Identify Lessons Learned - Include challenges and experiences faced in doing this assignment. Generalize what you learned for use in later process improvement projects.

Submit Assignment 2 on Sunday at end of Week 4 by 11:55 PM (EST). This submission should use the following template (it includes a waste audit table and room to add the other steps, link). Some frequently asked questions (link) and grading rubrics (link) for this assignment are included in the Course Materials.