Apply Lean tools to reduce waste and sustainably improve organizational performance
gma philosophy and process. It will help you successfully contribute to your organization’s Operational Excellence program. You will, first and foremost, be able to see the extent to which a lack of quality can negatively impact your organization. You will learn about the meaning of Lean and the key elements of its approach. The Lean Management training course will enable you to use a clear and simple framework focused on customer satisfaction, expenditure reduction, greater performance and a higher level of quality within your organization. You will explore how to address the challenges of Lean and the abilities required to rise through the ranks of a Lean organization. Upon completion of this course, you will have acquired intermediate knowledge of Lean, enabling you to identify the specific processes that require improvement. You will be equipped to meet Lean challenges and develop a culture focused on its use.
Is it for you ?
Managers who need to understand Lean concepts and apply them to continuous improvement projects within their organizations.
Prerequisites
None
What You'll Walk Away With
- ✓ Identify waste, value-added activities, and root causes to improve processes
- ✓ Apply the DMAIC methodology to structure continuous improvement initiatives
- ✓ Optimize the work environment using Lean tools such as 5S and standard work
- ✓ Lead a Kaizen project from analysis to implementation using practical tools
- ✓ Establish KPIs, action plans, and monitoring to sustain performance improvements
Training content
1 Knowledge of Lean tools:
- Philosophy, individuals, methodology, measures, tools. Differentiating
- Cause, Problem and Consequence, Identifying added value, waste and variation, DMAIC methodology.
2 Using tools: optimizing work environment (5S), standardizing work
3 Kaizen simulation:
- Define component (team creation, project charter, milestone review)
- Measure component (added value, process mapping, spaghetti diagram, data collection plan, milestone review)
- Analyze component (NVA identification, 5-Whys tree, milestone review)
- Improve component (creativity management, optimization principles, processing times,
- Production fleet and Takt Time, pull flow, cellular arrangement, Poka-Yoke (fail-safes), impact/effort matrix, finding solutions, implementing improvements, milestone review)
- Control component (establishing standard operating procedures, skills matrix, analyzing strengths, communication plan, training plan, action plan, monitoring plan).
4 Workplace application: new work and environment, new colleagues, new challenges.
If you have any questions about registration, cancellation, schedules, language of instruction, etc. you will find answers in our FAQ.
📌 Practical information
Our training sessions are offered in Montreal or Quebec City, in person or in a virtual classroom. Dates and locations are specified when you select your session below. If you have any questions, check out our FAQ.
