Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations
The teaching of Lean Enterprise Thinking in the aerospace context requires that students understand a complex subject—aerospace enterprises and their transformation—in a deep and intuitive way. Without this context, the lessons of the LAI Lean Academy Course® will make little sense. A rich simula...
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| author | McManus, Hugh L. Rebentisch, Eric Murman, Earll M. Stanke, Alexis |
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| description | The teaching of Lean Enterprise Thinking in the aerospace context requires that students
understand a complex subject—aerospace enterprises and their transformation—in a deep and
intuitive way. Without this context, the lessons of the LAI Lean Academy Course® will make
little sense. A rich simulation of an enterprise with a structure and problems typical of the US
aerospace industry is used as a teaching tool. The simulation allows students to understand Lean
Thinking at an intuitive level, and practice lean tools in a realistic setting. The simulation
enables a CDIO approach (in this case, Comprehend, Design, Implement and Operate), by
having the students take two iterations through a CDIO process to transform the simulated
enterprise from an inefficient legacy state to a high performance future state (x3 to x6 production
using the same resources). The simulation and its teaching goals are described, with reference to
the limited literature on simulations in education. The process used in the simulation is then
described in a CDIO context. Finally, the success of the simulation is evaluated using limited
quantitative and more extensive qualitative data. It is found that the simulation is a powerful
learning tool and a key component of the LAI Lean Academy. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/835892019-04-11T11:32:16Z Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations McManus, Hugh L. Rebentisch, Eric Murman, Earll M. Stanke, Alexis lean education simulation LAI Lean Academy active learning The teaching of Lean Enterprise Thinking in the aerospace context requires that students understand a complex subject—aerospace enterprises and their transformation—in a deep and intuitive way. Without this context, the lessons of the LAI Lean Academy Course® will make little sense. A rich simulation of an enterprise with a structure and problems typical of the US aerospace industry is used as a teaching tool. The simulation allows students to understand Lean Thinking at an intuitive level, and practice lean tools in a realistic setting. The simulation enables a CDIO approach (in this case, Comprehend, Design, Implement and Operate), by having the students take two iterations through a CDIO process to transform the simulated enterprise from an inefficient legacy state to a high performance future state (x3 to x6 production using the same resources). The simulation and its teaching goals are described, with reference to the limited literature on simulations in education. The process used in the simulation is then described in a CDIO context. Finally, the success of the simulation is evaluated using limited quantitative and more extensive qualitative data. It is found that the simulation is a powerful learning tool and a key component of the LAI Lean Academy. 2014-01-08T16:12:27Z 2014-01-08T16:12:27Z 2007-06-11 Learning Object Presentation http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83589 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | lean education simulation LAI Lean Academy active learning McManus, Hugh L. Rebentisch, Eric Murman, Earll M. Stanke, Alexis Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations |
| title | Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations |
| title_full | Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations |
| title_fullStr | Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations |
| title_short | Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations |
| title_sort | teaching lean thinking principles through hands on simulations |
| topic | lean education simulation LAI Lean Academy active learning |
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