Introduction to Lean Management
Do your teams spend too much energy waiting, reworking and performing activities that add no value? Use Lean management to analyse flows and organise improvement with frontline staff. Give your actions a method to improve operational flow and track results more effectively.
- Duration
- 2 days 14 hours
- Code
- IND007FR Code
Presentation
This course follows four stages through which participants progressively learn to:
- Master Lean principles and apply them to their own context.
- Use Lean project management tools and methods: assessment, improvement workshops and deployment.
- Structure and lead a Lean project team.
- Manage an ongoing project to simplify processes and improve flow.
Objectives
This course teaches participants to build a Lean dashboard, size a Lean project in terms of time, resources and stages, and adapt a general project structure to a Lean challenge.
Program
1. The three phases of Lean transformation: making it visible
- Awareness.
- Embedding.
- Excellence.
2. The nine areas for improving a Lean process: building understanding
- Value creation.
- The ability to produce to requirements.
- Continuous availability.
- Adapting to workload.
- Levelling and flow.
- Downstream pull.
- Safety and standards.
- Balance.
- The A3 method supporting the PDCA cycle.
3. Seven new Lean habits: taking action
- A customer-focused, reliable and robust process without disruption.
- Structured improvement.
- Standards.
- Optimised visualisation.
- Waste.
- Workshop rules.
- Progress.
Audience
This course is intended for managers, engineers, technicians and supervisory staff involved in a Lean initiative.
Prerequisites
Experience in a production environment is required, together with an understanding of business competitiveness requirements and some practical experience of them.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Practical exercises
Dates and sessions
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No upcoming sessions are currently available.
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