Enter the World of Lean!
Start (or Restart) Lean Training with a BANG!
With this training course at your disposal, you can give every employee a mega-download of lean awareness and know-how right from the start of your lean journey. Don't bore them with PowerPoint presentations or videos of limited scope or quality. Use Learning to See: Waste to blow every associate away and introduce them to the world of lean!
Get Employees to "Get It"
Getting employees to "get it" is a challenging obstacle to overcome when becoming lean. Sooner or later, the "light bulb" has to turn on inside each person so that lean clicks and they buy-in to continuous improvement. This program helps you do exactly that... except that it'll help you turn on the light bulb in record time!
Learn from a Real Manufacturing Environment
Connect lean theory to a real manufacturing environment via high quality video examples at a company just starting out with lean. See the seven wastes, see the need for 5S, see the need for standardization, and see how improvement is everyone's responsibility. This is your chance to bring the production floor itself right into your training sessions and workshops!
World-Class Video Instruction
Preview snippets of this course available on YouTube
The Perfect Introductory Training
Gain a holistic understanding of the critical lean skills necessary for engagement and transformation on the frontline.
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Connect value, the 7 wastes, 5S, standardization, and kaizen in one comprehensive training.
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Make your next workshop or training impactful and repeatable via 35 minutes of engaging video.
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Learn lean principles and see them applied on the manufacturing floor with real video examples.
No More Training Boredom!
Learn lean from the shop floor and everyday life!
What's Included in the Course
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35 minutes of HD video instruction
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Comprehension quiz - complete it online or download a printable version
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Timeless lean manufacturing instruction
Course Curriculum
Lesson 1: Defining Value and Waste
- Learn the meaning of "value" and "value-adding activities" in a manufacturing environment.
- See value and waste first-hand through a real-life time analysis.
- Measure the waste in an operation and discover that over 90% is waste!
Lesson 2: The 7 Wastes of Lean
- Learn the seven types of waste and remember them through the acronym TIMWOOD.
- See illustrations and manufacturing examples of each of the wastes.
Lesson 3: The Evils of Over Production
- Discover the many consequences of batch size when performing an operation.
- Witness a PB&J sandwich operation that demonstrates the differences between one piece flow and batching.
- Understand how batch size impacts space requirements, lead times, and quality.
Lesson 4: The Consequences of Poor Housekeeping
- See how 5S solves real problems encountered by front-line operators.
- Realize how 5S is more than a solution for poor housekeeping, but improves productivity and problem-detection.
- Overview the five practices of 5S methodology: sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain.
Lesson 5: The Role of Standardization
- Realize how standardization makes excellence stick, and applies to every activity!
- View the role of standardization in a variety of applications and circumstances.
- Understand how the lack of standardization creates chaos and frustration.
Lesson 6: Impacting Quality, Cost, and Delivery (QCD)
- Understand how eliminating waste and practicing the kaizen trinity improves quality, cost, and delivery (QCD).
- Learn that your customer primarily cares about QCD; if you want to succeed, you've got to improve QCD!
Lesson 7: Everyone's Role in Kaizen
- Learn to "squash" the things that bug you—those pesky problems that pull you down!
- Realize that kaizen (aka improvement) is everyone's responsibility.
- Connect the dots regarding "kaizen" and the previous training lessons.