Facilitate Lean Implementation

Provide individuals & teams with a comprehensive foundation to build ongoing improvements.  On-site workshops and coaching from experienced implementers. By combining proven best practices, practical tools and experiential activities you walk away with lean implementation skills you can use immediately.

Foundation for Lean:
Relentlessly make the most of resources
 
Developing high performance as an individual and within groups in a lean organization means making step-changes in both thinking and behavior.  This workshop provides the basis for a sustainable implementation.
 
5S:
A place for everything and everything in its place
 
Beyond just cleaning up, Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain are the foundation for a set of procedures that should permeate your organization's culture.  5S will help you:

• Uncover valuable space
• Reduce the time wasted searching for "lost stuff"
• Increase quality to your customer

Visual Management:
Seeing the status of a process in action
 
Visual Management takes 5S further by moving to visual standards, visual metrics and visual controls.  One should be able to see if the processes are working as planned, as intended.  The sooner you can see a problem, the sooner you can work on fixing it.  Visual Management will help you:

• Set up a process in which you can see if its performing correctly
• Increase speed of finding root causes
• Train new people faster

Standardized Work: 
Following & improving the 'current best practice'
 
Standardized work begins as an improvement baseline and continually goes through a Plan - Do - Check - Act cycle to improve.  We use it to seek better activities and sequences of steps to increase performance.  An effective standardized work procedure provides benefits of:

• Consistent best-practice performance
• Known basis for measuring improvements
• Improve speed to learn best-practice
• Increase desire to discover & contribute improvements

 
Continuous Improvement:
Thinking it through & making it better
 
"People who know a job see so much more to be done than they have done, that they are always pressing forward and never give up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient they are. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible."  - Henry Ford, 1922. 

Continuous Improvement will help you:

• Be dissatisfied with keeping just the status quo
• Understand where & when to apply various improvement tools
• Identify and implement specific cost savings
• Value contributions of all employees

 
Value Stream Mapping:
Picturing the interactions & metrics of process flow
 
Many graphical tools are one dimensional - they help you analyze a problem from a specific vantage point.  Value Stream Mapping encompasses several dimensions which provides a broader view of the interrelationships of the system.  Value Stream Mapping will help you:

• Visualize process interaction
• Increase awareness of supporting steps for the constraint
• Improve group communication

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