Lean - An Introduction to Operational Excellence

Driving Out Waste, Removing Variation, Creating Stability, Making Operations Predictable

We have a version of this course specific to the process industries (chemical, pharmaceutical, etc); "Lean in the Chemical Industries"

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Course Outline

• What is Lean – its origins, aims and successes
• What are the 5 Lean Principles
• Lean Wastes – what they are, how to spot them, why they should be eliminated
• Commonly applied tools of Lean – the benefits you can get out of them

• Lean diagnostics – how to find your opportunities
• The QCD (Quality, Cost and Delivery) domains and measures
• Value Stream mapping

• An introduction to problem solving processes
• How to treat each problem and issues as a unique and valuable opportunity to learn and improve

• How to ensure that the benefits hit the bottom line
• Why Lean implementations fail, and how to avoid the same thing for you
• How to start….how to keep going….how to win

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Training Notes –

A full hardcopy set of the slides and handouts will be given to all delegates attending the course

What is Lean?

Lean involves never ending efforts to eliminate or reduce waste. Adopting Lean techniques helps companies become more competitive, resource and time efficient with demonstrable bottom line benefits.

Lean has been evolved and honed over decades of application in many companies, most famously in Toyota (the Toyota Production System of TPS).

Lean is a proven approach and very successful at creating high levels of operational excellence in organisations. Any organisation wishing to be competitive and successful in its market will have to implement some form of operational excellence.

This course provides an introduction to the best approach available.

Who Should Attend?

This course is suitable to those interested in adopting Lean techniques, such as:

• production front line supervisors
• engineers
• managers, and
• those with an interest in continuous improvement.

For companies already adopting Lean principles this course will be valuable for new staff and those about to become involved in improvement teams.

Further courses are available that look at specific tools and techniques of Lean in more detail, including:

• Changeover Reduction (also known as SMED)
• Running Kaizen Events
• Standard Operating Procedures/ Standard Work
• Lean Supply Chains
• Value Stream Mapping
• Visual Factories

This is not an exhaustive list of Lean tools and techniques. If there are other topics you are interested in please ask.