Partnering with industry has provided students with a real-world laboratory experiences. Companies varying from manufacturing to service operations have allowed students access to their operations to work directly with their employees to implement lean process improvements.

1. Using Lean to Develop
Partnerships between Students
and Industry
Dr. Jim Keyes
College of Management
Inspiring Innovation.
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2. UW Stout
Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University
Mission:
University of Wisconsin-Stout is a career-focused,
comprehensive polytechnic university where
diverse students, faculty and staff integrate
applied learning, scientific theory, humanistic
understanding, creativity and research to solve
real-world problems, grow the economy and serve
a global society.
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College of Management
Inspiring Innovation.

3. UW Stout Facts
• Enrollment
• 9,371 fall 2014
• 88% Undergraduate
• 12% Graduate
• Programs
• 44 Undergraduate
• 20 Graduate
• Employment of graduates
• 97.1% 2013
• Degrees Awarded 2013-2014
• 1,643 Undergraduate
• 289 Graduate
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Inspiring Innovation.

4. College of Management
Departments
• School of Hospitality
• Business
• Operations and
Management
• Military Science
Undergraduate Programs
• Business Administration*
• Retail Merchandising and
Management*
• Supply Chain Management*
• Management*
• Hotel, Restaurant and
Tourism Management
• Golf Enterprise
Management
• Real Estate Management
• Sustainable Management
Graduate Programs
• Operations and Supply
Management*
• Risk Control
• Sustainable Management
• Training and Human
Resource Development
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*ACBSP Accredited Programs 2012

5. Lean:
The process of doing more with less
• Broader range of goods
• Fewer inputs – more outputs
• Lower costs
• Higher quality
• Shortened lead times
• Continuous improvement
• Waste elimination
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6. Value of Lean Before..
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7. Value of Lean Since…
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8. Need for Lean Training
• 2003 survey by DemandStream 280 manufacturers
• 40% of U.S. manufacturers use Lean as their primary
business strategy
• 2007 IndustryWeek/ Manufacturing Performance
Institute Census of Manufactureres
• 60% of manufacturers reported using lean
• 2010 Survey of Graduated students from UW
Stout
• 52% were using lean
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9. Need for Lean Training
• Monster.com indicated 975 “lean” positions
posted in October of 2006
• The same search recently indicated 2,253 “lean”
positions available
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10. Lean Enterprise Institute
• Working to implement Lean education in
academic settings
• LEAN – Lean Education Academic Network
• 30 professors in 2005
• 99 professors in 2009
• 132 professors in 2015
• Acknowledge lack of dedicated courses
• Understand the lack of material and training
• Working to develop and database to share course
material
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11. Applications of Lean
• Presently dominated by manufacturing, by large
producers
• New Users
• Small shop manufacturers
• Service industries
• Back-office
• Sourcing
• Logistics
• Retail
• Healthcare
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12. Student Audience for Lean
Training
• Technology
• Engineering
• Business
• Supply Chain
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13. Course Development
• Utilizing the Lean training that employers
presently find value in to scope the lean course.
• Five Primary Elements
• Specifying Value
• Identifying the Value Stream
• Flow
• Pull
• Perfection
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14. Course Outline
• Definitions - Vocabulary
• Methodologies
• Standardization
• Culture
• Empowerment
• Visual control
• Application
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15. Using Lean to Partner with
Industry
• Industry is using lean tools
• Students are learning lean
• The Polytechnic approach is application
• Natural fit to work with industry to help them
improve while improving the learning of UW
Stout students
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16. Course Outline
Divided between the Classroom
five weeks instruction, demonstrations and readings
nine weeks of application based learning
at Gemba working with clients
Observing, development and
implementation
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17. Projects begin with an A3 Report
• Standardized storytelling
• Not solving the problem
• Identifying the issues
• A plan to address the issues
• Visual tool to manage the project
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18. Industry Project Examples
• Actual student projects from the past
few years
• Major and small corporation
• Large and small impacts
• Always a great learning experience for
both the client and students
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19. Results from New Layout
Steps Set Up Final
Initial Steps 50 134
Steps After
Changes Made 32 73
% Reduction 36% 46%
Test Wall Estimated Steps
50
134
32
73
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Set Up Final
EstimatedAmountof Steps

20. Refill Line
• Suggestion: Add a refill line to
each bin.
• Benefit: Adding a refill line
will alert workers when
hardware levels are low and
should be replenished. This
will ensure that the process
will not stop as a result of not
having enough hardware.
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21. Pulley Assembly
• Total Non-value Added time = 13 + 6 + 7 + 90 + 4 = 120 seconds = 2 minutes
• This time is wasted with each pulley that is built
Recommendation
• Talk to supplier to discuss changes in packaging
• A reduction in this waste improves efficiency
• Less packaging should reduce cost from supplier
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22. Typical Semester Corporate
Projects
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• Five to six projects involving 25 to 30
• Involving three to five companies
• Usually most companies are repeat contacts
• Students adding value while gaining first hand
knowledge.

23. Using Lean to Develop Partnerships
between Students and Industry
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