Abstract
In recent years, developing experiential learning has fulfilled the requirement that engineering students fully understand the concept of Lean Manufacturing, or Lean Production, by demonstrating the advantages and disadvantages of some of their key principles. Learning Factories have been developed to provide students and industrial participants with hands on instruction to learn a manufacturing system that produces small-scale models. In our paper, we describe the Lean School developed in conjunction with an industry partner (Renault) to improve the capabilities of our College of Engineering students and of workers in companies located in the Castile-León region.
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This kind of manufacturing process is not atypical. For instance, companies with production technologies (e.g., cutting, machining, painting, testing), typically are grouped into departments, whereby products travel in batches through many stages. In addition, production processes usually involve different technologies and several companies. Even, there are many examples of companies that have their departments (e.g., sales, purchasing, R&D, HR, finance) distributed geographically as well as many suppliers and/or partners with a lasting unreliable delivery time.
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Gento, Á.M., de Benito-Martín, J.J., Sanz-Angulo, P., Pascual-Ruano, J.A. (2017). Lean School: A Practical Space of Cooperative Learning from the Factory to the University. In: Hernández, C. (eds) Advances in Management Engineering. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55889-9_14
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