The TI-86 Scientific Calculator: Using Complex Numbers
By Patrick Hoppe
This primer introduces the student to the correct method of entering complex numbers into a TI-86 calculator.
What Is Your Time Worth?
By Jim Lewis
In this learning activity you'll enter your wage information and learn what a day, an hour, and a minute of their time costs an employer.
Writing Effective Business Emails
By VickyWeiland, Rosie Bunnow
The learner will study an effective workplace email being written while a narrator explains the step-by-step process. The learner will distinguish the difference between poorly written and effectively written emails.
Future-State Mapping
By Kaye Krueger
The learner reads an explanation of all of the elements that comprise a future-state map. A map is shown.
Value Stream Mapping: Drawing a Current-State Map
Learners follow step-by-step instructions for creating a current-state map to identify how materials and information flow.
The Cost of Quality: A Self-Check Exercise
By John Stewart
In this interactive object, learners check their knowledge of concepts related to the cost of ensuring quality in manufacturing as they relate to the categories of appraisal, prevention, internal failures, and external failures.
The Case for Process Improvement: A Financial Example
By James Bork
Students read how profits can be doubled with the elimination of only a fraction of the "waste" in a company's operation.
Building Relationships Through Active Listening
By VickyWeiland
Learners will examine the four steps to listen actively to improve relationships.
The Red Tag System Used in the 5S Process
Learners read about a process for sorting items in the workplace. "Sort" is the first of the five steps in 5S.
Class 2 Levers: Force Input Angles
By James Bourassa, John Rosz
Learners use trigonometry to calculate angular input forces involving Class 2 mechanical levers.
Sexual Harassment: Separating Fact from Fiction
By Therese Nemec
In this activity, you'll distinguish between sexual harassment facts and fiction.
Icons and Symbols of Value Stream Mapping
In this interactive object, learners view the icons and symbols used most frequently in value steam mapping. A matching activity completes the object.
Writing a Mission Statement
By Ann Heidkamp
The learner explores the purpose of organizational mission statements and practices writing a statement that contains the four elements outlined.
The Twelve Principles of Lean Manufacturing
By Weldon Faull
Following a "cut the fat" theme, learners click on 12 drawings of pigs to read about the principles of lean manufacturing.
Thinking Outside the Box
By Barbara Liang
Learners examine strategies for evaluating new ideas and accepting change. They consider a list of various reactions to change and a list of actions that enhance teamwork, and check those statements that apply to themselves.
Responding to Sexual Harassment
By Rosie Bunnow
Learners follow the progression of a sexual harassment situation and recount the steps the victim took to deal with the problem.
Kanban: Your Signal for Action
In this animated object, users view how a kanban signals production to start.
Lean Culture
Learners look through a telescope to see what a company chooses to focus on when making decisions about productivity, reducing waste, retraining, solving problems, and motivating employees.
Task Roles in Effective Teams
By Andrea Krabbe
The learner will identify individual roles that help teams accomplish goals.
Six Sigma Methodology
Learners read what the letters DMAIC stand for and then complete a matching activity.
Teamwork Outside the Box
The learner will examine strategies for evaluating new ideas and accepting change that will enhance teamwork.
Lean Terminology
By Janet Braun
The learner will understand the meaning of terms and acronyms commonly used in a lean production system.
Supply Chain Management
By Todd Perrault
This interactive activity represents the grid modeling technique, a heuristic model for choosing a centralized location for a manufacturing or distribution center within a supply chain network. The formula calculates a central point between the suppliers and the markets. This object requires the latest version of Flash Player.
The Criminal Law Process
By Jody Cooper
Learners follow a timeline of the criminal law process, clicking on the steps to read descriptions of them. A quiz completes the activity.
Waste in the Office
Learners view examples of waste in an office environment and are asked to consider what they can do to eliminate or reduce waste in their own workplace.