Details about the LeanActivity Factory Game.

Experience Lean Manufacturing like never before – interactive, hands-on, and fun.

What Content is taught in the LeanActivity Factory Game?

The Lean Factory Training Game is an interactive Lean simulation for team trainings and workshops. In a 4-hour session for up to 16 participants, you become the Lean Trainer. The Learning Content is structured into 10 sequenced Game Rounds.

Game Round 1: Introduction to Lean Manufacturing (15min)

What is Lean? What are the seven Types of Waste?

Game Round 2: Standard Work: Start the 1st Assembly Sequence (15min)

Step into the role of each Operator. Get used to the Assembly Instructions

Game Round 3: The 5S Workshop: Implementing Visualization and Standardization (30min)

The Team will get used to the importance of 5S and performs the very first 5S workshop

Game Round 4: The Lean Layout Workshop (15min)

Teach the importance of a Lean Layout. The team will define the layout based on Lean measures

Game Round 5: SMED: Performing a Change-Over Workshop (30min)

Perform a change-over workshop and learn the systematic approach of a SMED workshop

Game Round 6: Lean Logistics: Implementing the Route Train (60min)

Improve efficiency of your Transportation with the Team

Game Round 7: Lean Material Boxes and the FIFO Supermarket (30min)

Implement the Supermarket and remove all large boxes from the shopfloor

Game Round 8: The One-Piece-Flow in Action (15min)

Implement the one-piece-flow with zero buffer between the stations and see immediately where your bottleneck is

Game Round 9: Design-for-Manufacturing: Involving R&D and the Customer Voice (15min)

Teach how important it is to involve all functions to your processes to eliminate waste in the factory

Game Round 10: The Final Group Discussion and Team Commitment (15min)

Deep-dive into the learnings of the training and reflect the input. Commit on follow-up activities

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From Setup to Wrap-Up: Watch One Training with the Lean Game.

Sneak Peek into the

LeanActivity Factory Game

Game Round #1

Introduction to Lean Manufacturing

Imagine – The LeanActivity Factory Game is set up in the training room. Participants enter and explore the miniature factory on the table!

Before applying Lean tools in the game, the first round introduces the key terms in Lean Management.

Watch a Demo to the 7 Types of Waste Introduction

Game Round #5

SMED: Let's perform a Change-Over Workshop

The LeanActivity Factory Game includes a full SMED change-over simulation. When switching products, machines and materials must be adjusted, causing waiting times and activities.

Download the PDF, watch the video, and map process steps, times, and info. Can you spot improvements yourself? Only then watch the second video.

Download SMED template

Before: Painful Change-Over Process at Station 5

Workshop: SMED Workshop & Optimization

A similar activity is also part of the Lean Factory Game. All participants will watch the change-over process over and over again until all steps are mapped and time spans are measured.

In this Video:

Experience how replacing forklifts with a route train reduces waste in transport.

Game Round #6

Lean Logistics: Implementing the Route Train

In a Lean factory, forklifts disappear from the shopfloor. Instead, a route train supplies all stations in a safe, efficient, and standardized rhythm. This simple shift cuts transport waste, reduces waiting times, and makes material flow predictable – "the heartbeat of Lean Production."