Partner Products: Automated Learning

Superfactory has partnered with Automated Learning to provide a wide variety of online training programs.

LearnTech® training incorporates interactive learning checks throughout the instructional sequences. Certification tests are criterion-referenced and module-based with feedback on every response for enhanced learning. The tests also include a scorebar to provide the learner with continuous status information. Administrative access to dates and scores of tests, certifications, and re-certifications is compliant with ISO quality-standards requirements.

Going Lean: 5S Training     $99    

The objectives of this course are for the participant to:

• Understand the origin, structure, and benefits of 5S.
• Describe the sorting process.
• Understand the "red-tag" method used to identify and remove unnecessary material from the workplace.
• Explain the necessary processes to improve access to materials and equipment.
• Explain the role of cleaning in maintaining quality and throughput.
• Understand the creation and use of procedures, practices, policies, and job aids associated with the 5S activities.
• Describe the roles and functions of management and contributors to the ongoing monitoring of, and improvements to, the 5S process.

Going Lean: Visual Controls     $99    

The objectives of this course are for the participant to:

• Understand visual control as a method whereby a work area becomes self-explaining, self-regulating, and continuously improving.
• Describe the use of visual methods for object and facility control, including safety controls.
• Explain the use of schedule boards, problem reporting, work load plans, and ahead and behind charts.
• Show the purpose and use of quality alert sheets, in-process inspection standards, inspection results, SPC charts, and the role of quality awards vs. quality control charts.
• Explain the use VC for maintenance, shadowboards and color coding, signals for equipment status, and equipment monitoring.
• Describe the role of the team in managing team production activities.

Going Lean: Introduction to Lean     $99    

The objectives of this course are for the participant to:

• Describe the advantages of going Lean.
• List and define the 8 kinds of waste, and recognize examples of each type.
• Compare the attitudes and metrics of Lean with those of traditional organizations, and identify some of the obstacles to transformation.
• Describe Lean as a total system.
• Explain the role of cleaning in maintaining quality and throughput.
• Recognize that the value stream must be mapped across this system.
• Recognize the obstacles you must overcome to become a truly Lean organization.