Lean Practitioner Training Course

Course description

What is lean?  A systematic approach that utilises well proven approaches to facilitate the elimination of waste and non-value adding activity.  In today’s competitive marketplace can any organisation (irrespective of sector) afford not to continuously improve and delight customers, whilst reducing unnecessary costs?  Absolutely not and lean gives us a well proven route, first established by Toyota, as to how an enterprise can take major steps to business improvement. This four day business improvment workshop takes a practical approach to training the techniques and methodologies of lean.  Delegates are expected to ‘roll up their sleeves’ and ‘go to the gemba’ as maximum involvement is key.  At the end of the business improvement training course each participant will have a detailed theoretical knowledge of the key lean tools, but importantly they will have had the chance to see how the techniques work practically and in combination with each other.

Who should attend?

This business improvement training course builds on the introductory course, through the development of a much more in depth ‘Lean Practitioner’s’ skill set.  The Lean Practitioner, a key role in many companies, is fully equipped to return to their organisation and make a real measurable difference (to the customer & the company’s balance sheet).  Irrespective of seniority (lean is a philosophy that all should partake in) if you are dedicated and believe you can make a real difference this business improvement training course could be for you.

Benefits to your business

During an intensive four days of teaching and practical ‘hands on’ exercises and simulations participants will be challenged to develop a skill set that can be applied to make improvements to a business irrespective of context.  The expectations of a Lean Practitioner are as follows, they will:

• Understand how the ‘lean toolbox’ can benefit any organisation and generate improvements and substantive gains in efficiency and quality through the usage of appropriate lean techniques
• Identify and minimise waste and non-value added activity throughout an organisation’s processes
• Play a role in developing appropriate scorecards and business improvement techniques within an organisation          
• Involve people at all levels in problem solving/process improvement activities in a fulfilling and motivational way Complement, broaden and enhance current business improvement activities (including the use of Six Sigma)

Course structure

• An Introduction to the Principles and Practice of ‘Lean’          
• Plan Do Check Action Problem Solving           
•  Workplace Organisation & Visual Management Techniques           
• Lean Measures & Metrics          
• Error Proofing Techniques          
• Process & Mapping Techniques & Usage          
• Value Stream Mapping (VSM)        
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)          
• Rapid Changeover Techniques (SMED)       
• Push vs Pull (The Kanban Approach)        
• Lean Supply Chains: The Total Value Chain Approach
• Lean Implementation Case Study: Bringing It All Together

Further Information

Fee: Four-day business improvement training course including refreshments, lunch and course notes - £1445.00 + VAT. Attendance on this business improvement training course will provide delegates with 32 CPD points.