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Lean manufacturing principles seek to eliminate waste.  Waste occurs within seven key areas: overproduction, product sitting between processes, making defective product, unnecessary processing, machine downtime, underutilized people, and the unnecessary movement of product.

Companies implementing Lean Manufacturing Principles have captured benefits such as:

• Scrap Reduction By 90%

• Reduce Setup Times By 90%

• Reduce Lead Times By 50%

• Achieve 20 inventory turns/year

• Reduce Operating Costs

• Productivity improvement 10 to 40%

• Quality improvement 25-75%

Let us help you reduce waste utilizing lean principles within your organization.  Our method includes "The Five Steps of Lean Implementation"

• Step 1: Specify Value
  Define value from the perspective of the final customer. Express value in terms of a specific product, which meets the customer's needs at a specific price and at a specific time.

• Step 2: Map
  Identify the value stream, the set of all specific actions required to bring a specific product through the three critical management tasks of any business: the problem-solving task, the information management task, and the physical transformation task. Create a map of the Current State and the Future State of the value stream. Identify and categorize waste in the Current State, and eliminate it!

• Step 3: Flow
  Make the remaining steps in the value stream flow. Eliminate functional barriers and develop a product-focused organization that dramatically improves lead-time.

• Step 4: Pull
  Let the customer pull products as needed, eliminating the need for a sales forecast.

• Step 5: Perfection
  There is no end to the process of reducing effort, time, space, cost, and mistakes. Return to the first step and begin the next lean transformation, offering a product which is ever more nearly what the customer wants.

 

Online Training:

You can take our online Lean training as a stand alone training tool or combine it with our blended eLearning approach to add the value of interactive classroom discussion and exercises.  Our online courses include:

• Introduction to Lean Principles (44 page Student Guide)

• Lean Tools I – Cell/Work Space Analysis and Waste Identification (42 page Student Guide)

•  Lean Tools II – Improvement (27 page Student Guide)

•  Lean Tools III – Cell/Workspace Standardization (19 Page Student Guide)

 

Our online training courses include:

• 24/7 Worldwide Access

• 90-day extendable License

• Online Student Note Pad

• Content Search

• Printable Student Guides

• Online "Lean Toolkit"

 

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Coaching, Mentoring, and Project Work

We offer a full line of support to help you launch your Lean program immediately.  Types of ongoing Lean support includes:

• Kaizen Events

• 5S

• Value Stream Mapping

• Visual Control Systems

Lean principles can be implemented in any operational environment.  This includes operations such as: professional offices, medical laboratories, educational institutions, manufacturing facilities, call centers, warehouses, financial institutions, and aerospace maintenance facilities.  As long as you have processes, people, procedures, you are a candidate for the implementation of Lean Principles.

 

Contact Us Today to Start Your Journey in Lean!!