Expert Kaizen Consultant

Can Yükselen

Total Productive Maintenance System ITUSEM (ITU Continuing Education Center) Lecturing

Teaching Manufacturing Systems in the Department of Industrial Engineering (Undergraduate)

Teaching Manufacturing Systems Course in the Department of Industrial Engineering (Undergraduate-Master’s Degree)

Planning, coordinating and managing Lean Transformation, TPM and Continuous Improvement Projects
Coordinate Value Stream Mapping, Production Level Leveling Kaizen and Maintenance Activities
Coordinating the Installation of Assembly Lines, layout, flow rack, andon system designs and Poka-Yoke Systems
Line Organization and Balance activities using Standard Work, Poka Yoke systems and Yamazumi Charts
Coordinate KPI management activities using Hoshin Kanri, A3 reporting and Kata
Planning and coordinating Total Productive Maintenance Projects in collaboration with J-MAC
Establish team leader recruitment, recognition and promotion systems
Establishment of Performance Management Systems
Planning, coordinating and improving workshops, educational model games in Turkey and Russia
Planning, coordinating and improving webinars (webinars)
Creator of Yamazumi Line Model Simulation, LeanoGames, Automated Maintenance Workshop
Creator of the Gemba Workshop, combining on-site counseling, workshops and training
Coordination of projects in the field of cost reduction, quality improvement.

Assisting Lean Transformation Projects by collaborating with project leaders
Assist in Total Productive Maintenance Projects in collaboration with project leaders

Design and synchronize the Set Piece System Dolly mechanism for Assembly Line
Synchronizing SPS Dollies to the Assembly Line and designing a delivery system that supplies material to the assembly lines, using the milk run cycle.
A3 reporting to Management on Kaizen Activities.

Thesis Title: Design and evaluation of an educational game on assembly line balancing using Lean concepts

Measuring the performance of 12 working groups of 80 people for the Assembly Line Model
Two-year data collection collaboration with Lean Institute

Project realized in cooperation with a mechanical press manufacturer named “Vatan Pres”
Creating models using “SolidWorks” and making calculations using “ANSYS”

12/2013-12/2019 Lean Institute Lean Summit – Speaker
11/2018 European Lean Educators Conference 2018 – Speaker
03/2018 AOTS Toyota Management System Certificate Program (Toyota Management System and Applications, plant visits / Nagoya, Japan
11/2017 European Lean Educators Conference 2017 – Speaker
10/2014 CIE’44 – IMSS’14 Conference 2014 – Speaker
03/2014 Kaizen Center Lean Summit / Anapa, Russia – Speaker
06/2013 Lean Conferences / Wroclaw, Poland
07/2012 HIDA Production Management Senior Executive Program (Toyota Production System and Applications, factory visits and workshops) / Nagoya, Japan
04/2012 Metalog Interactive Education Methodologies / Istanbul
05/2011 Building a Sustainable Toyota Culture, Mike Hoseus / Istanbul
06/2008 FESTO Mechatronics Training Program (Hydraulic, Pneumatic and PLC Control Systems) / Istanbul