This Lean Process Improvement Training will help your employees better understand the key processes that make your company tick. The efficient techniques will be taught to enable them to implement Lean Process Improvement tools. This session will cover the fundamentals of Lean using the Toyota precepts as well as the five essential improvement concepts. These concepts include value, waste and variation as well as complexity and continuous improvements. Participants will be able apply these concepts in the workplace once they have a solid grasp of these concepts. The company's efficiency and effectiveness will improve quickly, if not immediately.

Lean has grown from a simple concept to a collection of widely used practices which many large companies around the globe use in their daily operations. This training session will focus on how Lean Process Improvements helped these companies achieve the highest levels in their fields, and how your company can do the same. For more information, please contact our team.

Training outline for Lean Process Improvement

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Lesson 1

Course Overview

How to Get To Know
About Workshop
Learning Objectives
Personal Goals

Lesson 2

Understanding Lean

What is Lean?
What its Origins Are
Toyoda Precepts
Six Sigma vs. Lean

Lesson 3

The Toyota Production System

Overview of the Liker Pyramid
Explore the Philosophy

Lesson 4

Toyota Production System House

Another representation

Lesson 5

Five Critical Improvement Concepts

Value
Abfall
Variation
Complexity
Continuous

Lesson 6

Understanding Value With the Kano Model

Basic Characteristics
Performance Characteristics
Value Added

Lesson 7

Types Of Waste

Muda
Muri
Mura

Lesson 8

Building a Lean Enterprise

Environmentally Friendly Organization
John Bicheno's 20 Keys To A Lean Organization

Lesson 9

Plan, Do, Study, Act, Cycle

PDSA Cycle

Lesson 10

Using R-DMAIC - S Model

Advanced Version of PDSA Primarily Used in Six Sigma

Lesson 11

Lean Thinking Resources

5W-2H
Genchi Genbutsu
Gemba
5-S

Lesson 12

Kaizen Events

Five Levels Ff Kaizen Events

Lesson 13

Data Gathering & Mapping

Lean Data Tools
Flow charts
Ishikawa (Cause-and-Effect) Diagrams
SIPOC Diagrams
Maps of Value Streams
Data Analysis Tips

Lesson 14

Take Home

Roadblocks and Pitfalls
How to Create a Successful Organizational Structure

Lesson 15

Workshop Wrap Up

Personal Action Plan
Recommendations
Course Evaluation
General Evaluation
Last Thoughts