This course works for people new to the concepts of lean and continuous improvement, for individuals looking to improve their lean understanding and skills, and for organizations wanting to level set the lean knowledge of their workforce to speed progress.
- Recognize where and how to apply lean principles, systems, and concepts, to increase value and eliminate waste in your daily work.
- Resolve business challenges by using scientific method, PDCA-based problem-solving.
- Identify work activities as being “value-add,” “incidental,” or “waste” and understand how all three affect workflow.
- Understand the five dimensions of the Lean Transformation Framework and explain why all five are necessary for a transformation to occur
Intro to Problem Solving
- Build a foundational understanding of problem types and problem-solving. Identify the four types of problems.
- Resolve business challenges by using scientific method, PDCA-based problem solving.
- Apply A3 thinking to solve problems.
- Clearly define problems, beginning with grasping the situation at gemba.
- Learn to break down vague problems to specific problems that can be solved to root cause.
Learning to See Using Value Stream Mapping
- Establish a direction for the company’s improvement efforts, ensuring that improvement efforts eliminate problems customers deeply care about
- Gain a better understanding of the linkages between material and information flow
- Create the basis for an effective lean implementation plan by designing how your organization’s door-to-door material and information flow could ideally operate
- Give operators, engineers, and managers a common language and process for continuous improvement]
- Avoid the common mistake of cherry-picking individual lean tools, which creates isolated islands of improvement and limited benefits
- Plus, the workshop is based on the tested and proven methodology created for LEI’s popular Learning to See workbook , translated into 16 languages, and recipient of a Research Award from the Shingo Institute at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University
* Live coaching is not included in the enterprise subscription.
