Topic Ice Cream Sundae Production: From Job Shop to Lean Flow

Ice Cream Sundae Production: From Job Shop to Lean Flow

Are you interested in comparing a job shop layout to a lean flow line? Or maybe you just missed dessert? Either way, this session will be an instructive and tasty experience!

This interactive workshop will engage you and your fellow participants by role-playing as customer order entry professionals, production planners, workstation operators, inspectors or hungry customers placing orders. The session involves two major exercises: first, a simulation of a traditional job shop layout; and then, creation of a flow line to demonstrate the improved lean environment.

Attendees will gain knowledge of the following concepts:

• The advantages of empowerment and engagement
•  Lean improvements in productivity, space requirements, lead time and quality
•  Some secrets you never knew about Lean (which contradict the so-called "experts")!
  
  This experiential learning session provides valuable lessons learned that the audience will remember years or decades later. Participants engaged in a simulation will retain more information than the standard lecture format.