Lean Enterprise System Solutions
Learn how to change the culture in your organization!
CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
This is an interactive program designed to further your knowledge in Lean systems, Lean Leadership and Kaizen systems. This curriculum is a combination of classroom-based courses and real-life environments where participants will engage in the planning, implementation and execution of significant process improvements. This allows participants to fully understand how a Lean System impacts an organization's performance.
Yellow Belt
LEARN
This is a 4-day, team-based interactive course where students will learn Lean Leader concepts, behaviors, and expectations and apply it all to a "Simulated Enterprise". The team will plan and execute 3 mini-Kaizens, to improve the organization's performance. This is a hands-on, fun experience for all participants.
Green Belt
LEAD
Participants will be taught how to successfully plan, implement, and sustain a Kaizen event in their workplace. As a Kaizen leader you will be responsible for completing planning documents, communicating to stakeholders, coordinating the logistics, running the event, creating a Kaizen report-out presentation and sustaining results.
Black Belt
TEACH
As a Facilitator, your role is to guide and support the Kaizen Leader and team throughout the event. You will teach them about the Lean philosophies, principles, & concepts and how to apply them to the organization. You are responsible for keeping the team on schedule and adhering to the Kaizen Guidelines to ensure all are successful.
Lean Concepts
Lean System - A Lean Business System (LBS) is an in-depth approach to building a culture of continuous improvement, seeking to remove waste, or non-value-added activities, from every process, while creating a Learning environment.
Kaizen Systems - Kaizen is the Japanese term "Change for the good." As a philosophy it promotes getting better every day. As a methodology it facilitates employee collaboration and communication to break down a process and remove the waste before putting it back together in an efficient and sustainable manner.
Kaizen Administration - The planning & implementation documents and tools that help you organize and complete each stage of the Kaizen cycle (PDCA) Plan, Do, Check, Act.
Visual Workplace - Showing key information in a clear and simple way through visual devices, positioned at the point need, that can be understood by anyone at a glance.
Flow - The ability to produce continuous value. A flow-based process is a tight sequence in steps, delivering product or information on a regular cadence in small batches. Understanding takt time (cadence) will lead to balanced and synchronized operations.
Pull Systems - A system where work is pulled only when needed and at the required amounts. This workflow allows for building products based on actual demand not forecasting.
Quick Changeover - An operating technique that systematically reduces the time and skill level required to set-up a process. It provides a rapid and efficient way of converting a manufacturing process from running the current product to running the next product.