(08) 9383 8000
Lean
Explore the five principles of Lean which will help improve processes and operations through the reduction and elimination of waste within your organisation.
2 Days
Overview
Lean systems improve process flow, eliminate waste, reduce delays and improve productivity. The principles of Lean apply across all industries and within both the public and private sectors. Effective implementation of the Lean concepts can help your organisation achieve just-in-time delivery and shorten lead times.
Who will benefit
Business process owners, production and operational personnel and other managers responsible for overseeing processes and operations that need improvement.
Content
- Five principles of Lean
- Stability tools, foundation for improvement
- Standardised work
- 5s
- Visual workplace
- Total productive maintenance
- Define value from the customer perspective
- Mapping the value stream
- Improving the flow
- Pull systems, Kanban
- Just-in-time
- Takt time
- Quick changeover
- Lean metrics.
Learning Outcomes
Participants should be able to:
- Diagnose the main areas of waste in their business processes
- Develop practical approaches to eliminate the waste
- Speed up the delivery of goods and services to the market
- Reduce time delays in responding to customers.
This course provides the fundamentals of Lean, Six Sigma and business process management and will help you to decide which tool or methodology to apply to which business problem. It removes the confusion of choosing between conflicting approaches by covering all the core business improvement methodologies.
Six Sigma Fundamentals is the first stage on your Six Sigma journey. During this course, you will explore the well regarded DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control) philosophy and the essentials of continuous improvement.
Whilst aimed at auditors, this course provides the skills for anyone to assess the way they do business, evaluate whether it is working for them, and determine ways of doing it better.
As demands on organisations increase, business improvement methodologies can help deliver more from the assets we currently have. This course helps supervisors and managers determine which methodologies to apply to their business and how to advocate and implement a business improvement course.