Lean Courses
Creating a Lean Culture
It is impossible to successfully implement a truly lean operation that continues to sustain itself with meaningful and measurable results, unless there has been a complete corporate culture change to lean thinking that starts at the top.
This session will offer the lean management system tools as well as the leadership skills necessary to ensure a sustainable lean implementation. The Lean Management System consists of the discipline, daily practices, and tools required in order to maintain a persistent, intensive focus on process improvement.
Leaders must demonstrate the passion, commitment and constancy of purpose necessary to make sure that everybody in the company is working toward the same goals.
Key Session Topics:
- How to Implement the Lean Management System
- The Role of the Leader in Standard Work
- How to Train and DO
- Using Visual Controls to Monitor Process and Performance
- Business Management Meetings and Daily Accountability
- Implementing the Business Management System
- Ten Attributes Necessary to Lead Culture Change
- Using Dr. Deming's 14 points to Create and Maintain a Lean Culture
- Assessing Your Current Culture and What You Can Do to Fix it
Who Should Attend:
CEOs, Business Owners, General Managers, Plant Managers and all leaders who are responsible for creating a culture that can sustain a Lean Environment.
Creating Continuous Flow
The objective of this training is to create a system whereby your organization receives and produces only what is needed exactly when it is needed.
Key topics include:
- Planning for implementation of continuous flow cells and pull systems to manage raw material
- Work in process
- Finished goods inventory
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Time-based competition demands that today's manufacturers implement agile manufacturing systems. These systems, known as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), put the customer at the center.
The implementation of ERP is a major undertaking and culture change. It requires significant commitment of your company's resources. For these reasons, companies typically implement new systems only once every ten years.
BIS can help with all aspects of this process, from software selection to implementation. Each project plan is tailored to meet your unique needs.
Lean Kaizen Events
Break through the barriers to improved profitability! Deliver in 50-80% less time! Reduce manufacturing costs by at least 20%! Reduce work in process/increase cash flow!
What is a Lean Kaizen Event?
- Kaizen is a word that means continuous improvement.
- Lean is a philosophy of eliminating waste in all operations.
- A Lean Kaizen Event is a way to accelerate the continuous improvement and waste reduction activities by using a focused group of people on a team with a mission - to improve on cost, time and space for a particular product or process - and a deadline (one week from the start of the project).
Key benefits from holding an event include making fast, dramatic improvements in a process, and training employees in the tools that will help them spread these improvements throughout the organization.