Process Improvement/LEAN

LEAN Certification

The LEAN Certification Program provides the participants with a well-planned, structured approach to becoming a LEAN leader. Beginning a LEAN journey requires planning and budgeting. Pre-scheduled workshops, work place simulations, plant tours, and working groups are combined into this LEAN Certification Program to help make a smooth transition for your newly hired, or current employees, into your LEAN enterprise. The workshops are planned to ensure that your employee has all the LEAN manufacturing knowledge and tools necessary to succeed.

Objectives:

Learn to be a Change Agent to lead continuous process improvement
Help the Enterprise with its ability to create and make changes
Become more aware of waste and how to eliminate it
Receive the most advanced training possible with hands-on experience
Increase employee opportunities to improve in all areas of the Enterprise
Realize profits and growth from the implementation results
Realize ongoing success with both internal and external support
Develop a market leader perspective
Satisfy customers

LEAN Courses

View a current list of available courses

This two-part workshop will teach participants how to identify the stages of change, to manage them successfully and lay the foundation for an organization to accommodate and ultimately embrace change.

Part 1: Helping Organizations Embrace Change Through Effective Communication
LEAN Thinking has us doing more with less; less human effort, less equipment, less time, and less space, all the while coming closer to what customers really want. Using LEAN Thinking philosophy and tools to transform an organization’s culture involves significant change and risk.

Part 2: Solving Problems/Managing Conflict/Building Better Teams
LEAN Thinking allows more employees to share in identifying and solving problems. It encourages everyone to think of innovative ways that the company can become more efficient and/or effective. Toyota’s A3 problem solving process will be taught during this course.

LEAN Principles
LEAN Manufacturing has been touted as one of the best competitive tools available in business today, delivering dramatic savings in improved productivity, cycle time, and work-in-process inventories. In this one-day workshop, you become a shop floor employee building simple products. You will be assigned to one of many available jobs, from material handler to assembler, and learn by hands-on activities that reinforce the LEAN Manufacturing principles. You will move from the presentation format to the shop floor three times during this workshop to apply the concepts that you learn. You will also learn to measure production results and profitability between production runs.

Change Agent/Kaizen Methodology
Learn how to transform your company or operation to that of LEAN by stimulating action, building velocity, and sustaining momentum. You will learn how to plan effective process improvement, use influence and persuasion to overcome barriers, and learn the proven tips and techniques for sustaining change. This workshop will explain what is a Kaizen, how to set one up, and timing before, during and after to help ensure a successful event.

Value Stream Mapping
Learn how to create a value stream map of a firm’s specific value stream. This course teaches how to map the current state of a product or process by determining the current state data and evaluates what is value added and non value-added. The team with the help of the firm’s participants determines what they want the future state to look like. They will focus on reducing or eliminating the non-value added wastes and then come up with the action plan to accomplish the future state. Participants will be welcomed to discuss their own examples and will be given guidance to create their own companies’ current and future state maps including specific suggestions on implementing LEAN in various administrative departments.

An overview of Clean Manufacturing will be included in this course where participants will learn the basic concepts and skills, understand the similarities between sustainability and LEAN Manufacturing, and be prepared to implement Clean Manufacturing.

View a video on Value Stream Mapping

5S: Workplace Organization
Reduce waste through a systematic application of the 5S System- Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain. This workshop teaches the basics and techniques presented as a "train and do" exercise on an actual shop floor. During this 3-day workshop participants learn the 5S system and immediately apply them in a local manufacturing company.

Companies see immediate results, improve quality, achieve work standardization, decrease changeover time, improvement in safety, reduce cycle time, reduce machine down time, a boost employee morale as well as work environment.

Quick Changeover/Setup Reduction
This course teaches the fundamental principles of set-up reduction and reducing waste. It is based on the works of Dr. Shigeo Shingo and his Single Minute Exchange of Die System of Setup Reduction. Participants will receive hands-on opportunities to practice new techniques and improve setup time.

Completing the LEAN Principles for the Job Shop is a pre-requisite for this course.

Cellular Manufacturing
Learn how linking and balancing process steps can reduce process lead times by as much as 95%, Work-in-Process by 90%, and floor space by 50-75% while increasing productivity by 40% or more. This hands-on course teaches how to link and balance LEAN manufacturing operations to reduce lead times, minimize work in process, optimize floor space usage and improve productivity. The instructor leads the class through the 5-step process for designing and implementing work cells using a live simulation. This process applies to both assembly and machine applications.

Completing the LEAN Principles for the Job Shop is a pre-requisite for this course.

View a video of the Cellular Manufacturing simulation

MANTEC Blog

A Blog Post About Lean Manufacturing

Sept 30, 2008 | Posted By: John Doe | Category: Lean Manufacturing

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