Abstract
ABSTRACTIn Lean Production training and education, simulators are often used. These can take the form of for instance desktop games, computer simulations, or full-scale simulators. Many training participants perceive models for experiential learning and for continuous improvement processes as complex and abstract. Based on experiences from training sessions in a full-scale simulator Karlstad Lean Factory®, a unified model for learning and improvement work is presented. This model stimulates training transfer and is perceived as intuitive. It also shows instructional scaffolding as a learning method. Suggestions for future work include investigating synergy with Smart Manufacturing and the use of Lean Production simulators for innovative product realisation.
Highlights
Within the Lean Educators research community and amongst Lean Education practitioners, much attention is being paid to Training Within Industry (TWI) and to training for professional preparation of engineering students using simulated factory environments
Simulated factory environments used today for Lean Production (LP) education range from simple desktop games to actual manufacturing machinery such as so-called ‘Learning Factories’, the latter being described in Tisch et al (2013)
Asked by company management how they arrived at that idea they responded: ‘We started to look at the factory in the same way we looked at karlstad Lean Factory® (KLF) during the training’
Summary
Within the Lean Educators research community and amongst Lean Education practitioners, much attention is being paid to Training Within Industry (TWI) and to training for professional preparation of engineering students using simulated factory environments This concept resembles what Herbert Schofield more than one century ago called an ‘instructional factory’ within the university. The aim of this work partially is to present a model describing the link between LP training and continuous improvement in the workplace in a way that supports both LP training participants and LP educators & trainers Another aim is to report findings and experiences from using an LP simulator as a training tool. For readers not familiar with previous publications on KLF, a description of this simulator is presented in Appendix A, which is a summary of Section 4 from (De Vin & Jacobsson, 2017)
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