Lean Manufacturing, OEE and TPM

No. A spreadsheet does all the arithmetic, and a stopwatch or phone timer does the rest. Every practice task has a worked version you can follow on paper if you are not currently on a shop floor.

Nothing about lean. If you have done any PLC or SCADA course the OEE modules will feel closer to home, because the downtime and count data usually comes off that layer, but it is not required.

No. This is preparation, not certification. Lean Six Sigma belts are issued by bodies such as ASQ and by training providers under their own schemes, and TPM Excellence Awards are issued by the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance. This course covers much of the same ground and none of their examinations, and EDWartens does not represent them.

Yes. Every module, practice task and assessment. You create an account so your progress is saved and the assessments can be marked. The certificate is the only optional paid item.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you have finished every module and passed the final assessment at 60 per cent, with a verification code anyone can check. It is not a vendor credential and is never described as one.

The creators named in the Credits block at the foot of this page, on their own YouTube channels. EDWartens did not make the videos and the creators are not affiliated with EDWartens. What EDWartens wrote is the study plan, the notes, the practice tasks and the assessments.

That is who it is written for. The engineer who already fixes breakdowns is the one who can tie line data to loss categories, and OEE and TPM literacy is the usual gate for continuous improvement and shift-in-charge roles at auto, FMCG and electronics plants.

About sixteen to seventeen hours of study across fourteen content modules and a final, which most learners spread over four or five weeks. The practice tasks add more if you do them on a real line, and they are where the value is.

The Lean Manufacturing, OEE and TPM course has 15 modules. It opens with "Lean: value, the five principles and the eight wastes", goes through "The Toyota Production System and how lean grew", "Continuous flow, cells and single-piece flow", "OEE: what it measures and how to calculate it" and "Rolling out TPM and keeping the gains" and ends with "Final assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the Lean Manufacturing, OEE and TPM course: Calculate availability, performance, quality and OEE from one shift of real line data; Split a shift of downtime across the six big losses and name the one costing most; Draw a current-state value stream map with observed data boxes, then a future state you can reach. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the Lean Manufacturing, OEE and TPM course, software: None required. A spreadsheet for the OEE, takt time and kanban arithmetic. Hardware: none. A stopwatch or a phone timer and a notebook for the line observations. The course itself is free.

Lean Manufacturing, OEE and TPM is rated beginner. Beginner. No prior lean, quality or maintenance training is assumed. It sits naturally after any PLC or SCADA course, because the loss data OEE is built from comes off that layer. It is written for production, industrial and maintenance engineers, and takes about 15.3 hours at your own pace.

Skills from the Lean Manufacturing, OEE and TPM course (for example: calculate availability, performance, quality and OEE from one shift of real line data) are used in roles such as quality engineer, process improvement analyst, quality auditor and operations manager, and in industrial engineer work. The course gives you practical evidence of the skill; it does not promise a job, and employers decide on experience and interview.