For many businesses, the formula for success is the same: improve cost, quality, and responsiveness to increase customer satisfaction and shareholder confidence. While systems such as Six Sigma excel at achieving these goals, there are other methods that can work in concert or on their own to get your business the results that you need.
Goals:
LEAN is a proven method of increasing your company’s effectiveness. This workshop is focused on equipping you with the Lean tools that you need to create a noticeable improvement in your organization immediately. We’ll show you how LEAN can eliminate or reduce operating costs, cycle time, and non value-added actions and accelerate processes by reducing waste.
The skills taught in this workshop will give your organization increased flexibility, more efficient utilization of assets and resources, help you to increase your cash flow by decreasing inventory, increase your quality and reliability, and help you better meet your customers’ expectations.
We’ll not only help you develop a plan for implementing LEAN; but after learning the principles, we can help you integrate them with Six Sigma or your current process management system to bring even more dramatic results.
Description:
In order to properly introduce you to LEAN, we’ll first focus on the primary principles and concepts. We’ll show you the typical “wastes” of LEAN. The workshop will show you how to build an implementation roadmap to deploy and sustain LEAN. It will also cover what tools and techniques you can use to improve your response to customer quality and cost needs.
We’ll show you how to create a Total Productive Maintenance Program to improve efficiency and how to construct a Value Stream Map to identify any areas where LEAN my have an effective impact.
Skills:
- Value Stream Mapping
- Continuous Improvement methods
- Layout streamlining techniques
- Point-of-use-storage strategy
- Batch size reduction
- Quick changeover
- Total Productive Maintenance
- Just-In-Time systems
- Visual Controls
- 5S Workplace
- Organization and Standardization techniques
Lean and Six Sigma:
LEAN and Six Sigma are two very different processes. While Lean eliminates waste, Six Sigma focuses on using statistical methods to reduce variability. While the bottom lines may be similar, they shouldn’t be thought of in terms of “either/or”. In fact they share many similar tools and can increase the effectiveness of each if used in concert.
LEAN can engage the “low hanging fruit” so that it becomes easier to identify the more subtle issues that Six Sigma addresses. Many companies have begun to integrate these two approaches to great success. Though these two systems work well together, they are still very effective independently and you don’t need to be using Six Sigma in order to take advantage of LEAN.
Format:
This is a one day workshop.
Who Should Attend:
Managers, Change Agents, and any other individuals interested in learning process improvement techniques.
Pricing:
$2,000/course plus course manuals and travel expenses for the instructor for a maximum of 15 participants.