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Contents
  • Overview
  • Who should attend
  • Learning objectives
  • Course agenda and content
  • Prerequisites
  • Training approach
  • Examination
  • Certification
  • General course information

Lean Awareness

Overview

This 1-day awareness course enables delegates to understand the following:

  • Benefits of Lean Thinking for their organisation

  • Lean principles, tools and techniques

  • How Lean can be implemented across an organisation.

Lean thinking has become a widely adopted improvement approach that can simplify processes and improve performance in both manufacturing and service organisations.

 

Lean recognises that, at best, only a small percentage (<5%) of process steps add value to the customer, and about 30% are necessary to run the business on a day-to-day basis -  the rest is no value adding, a.k.a. waste (muda).

 

The effective application of Lean principles and tools can significantly:

  • Increase the % of customer value-adding process time and steps

  • Reduce the % of business value-adding time and steps necessary for running the business, including administrative activities related to product and service quality, health and safety, compliance to rules & regulations, etc.

  • Reduce the time to complete a customer order from start to finish, and the associated operating costs

The above improvements will also contribute to increased customer satisfaction and loyalty as well as business growth and profitability.

For delegates to be able to undertake even a basic improvement project, they must undertake more advanced training courses in Lean, to acquire sufficient knowledge and skills.

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  Training Course details
  • 1 day (09.00 - 17.00 GMT)
  • Online instructor-led via zoom.us
  • £250 + VAT
  • Included: 1 day online instructor-led training, delegate workbook, online exam, and certificate.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for anyone involved in the deployment of Lean in manufacturing and service organisations.

Learning Objectives

To understand the following:

  • Principles of quality improvement

  • Lean principles and the focus on waste identification and elimination

  • Definition of customer, value, value stream, and waste

  • Key lean tools and techniques

  • Approach to implementing lean in an organisation.​​​

Course Content

  • Origins of Lean

  • Lean Thinking

  • Lean manufacturing

  • Lean office/ Lean services

  • 5 Lean principles

  • Lean concepts

  • 7 wastes of Lean

  • 3 MU's of Lean: muda (Type II waste/ NVA), mura (Unevenness), and muri (Overburdening)

  • Customer value; value add , value enabling/ business value add (BVA)/ Type I muda, and non-value add (Type II muda/ NVA)

  • Business process definition and concepts

  • Process mapping and process maps

  • Value streams, value stream mapping, and value stream maps

  • Key Lean tools and techniques

  • Performance improvement frameworks (PDCA, Kaizen, and DMAIC)

  • Lean leadership and culture

  • Getting started

Prerequisites

 

Proficiency in the English language, willingness to learn, and open mind to new ways of working.

Training Approach

The course covers both theory and practice:

  • Slide-based training sessions, supported by examples

  • Preparation for attending more advanced Lean and six sigma training courses.

Examination

There is no scheduled exam for this level of training.

 

Certification

After participation in the course delegates will receive a certificate of attendance.

General Course Information

For general course information please click on the link here.

 

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