Lean Champion: Mastering the Tools and Techniques to Support a Lean Culture

  • Overview
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  • Requirements & Materials
Overview

Lean Champion: Mastering the Tools and Techniques to Support a Lean Culture

Course Description

It’s one thing to learn about lean principles and to participate in lean exercises within your plant, but it’s a completely different level to lead these efforts. Getting buy-in from the organization, leading lean events where you are turning over the power of ideas to your team, etc. etc. and orchestrating change is a skill-set. The most successful leaders in lean manufacturing efforts understand how to take their emotions out of the processes, stimulate ideas from employees throughout the organization, assign leads to implement, and then measure results and change as needed. It’s not easy. If it was everyone would do it. This class is designed for leaders or potential leaders that have experience with lean concepts but are wanting to improve the results in their organization.

During this three-day course, you will learn how to:

  • Become a coach and not nan instructor within the continuous improvement process
  • Create an environment conducive to creating and rapidly implementing ideas to resolve business issues
  • Establish a new standard at your company that maximizes results
  • Garner ideas from the organization and turn those ideas into measurable actions
Course Content

FACILITATE/LEAD/DEVELOP

  • Current and future state Value Stream Map
  • Analyze maps
  • Develop Hoshin Plan

DEVELOP DRAFT OF ATTENDEE’S PLANT AND PLAN TO IMPLEMENT VALUE STREAM MAPPING

LEAD/FACILITATE KAIZEN EVENTS

  • Develop charter
  • Develop data collection plan
  • Facilitate brainstorming
  • Implement change
Requirements & Materials
Prerequisites

Recommended

  • Basic understanding of lean concepts
  • Working knowledge of the fundamental lean tools (5s, SMED, standard work, etc.)
Materials

Required

  • Bring to the training your product mix and production volume

Provided

  • Notebook

Session Details

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for continuous improvement managers, process improvement individuals, as well as individuals in middle- and upper-management

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What You Will Learn

  • Value Stream Maps
  • Hoshin Planning
  • How to use brainstorming tools
  • Kaizen events
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How You Will Benefit

  • Plan how to leverage a team to improve your processes.
  • Develop a plan to have an impact on your plant that will fulfill your team’s vision.
  • Learn how to be effective as a team to leverage experience.
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My team is empowered to take charge of their projects. And I can focus on the big picture.

- Chris Walker
Assistant Director of Marketing

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