The Essential Lean Awareness Training Course

The Essential Lean Awareness Training Course has been designed by industry leading Lean Manufacturing Consultants for lean beginners wishing to gain an understanding of the tools and philosophy of lean manufacturing. As a result of 1 day of training you will have gained a detailed understanding of the key tools used to drive waste, i.e. cost and time from your business and how to start your own lean journey.

All attendees of the course will receive a free copy of the award winning lean manufacturing book that has sold over 3 million copies (worth $25). The Goal – The Process of Ongoing Improvements written by the late Eli M. Goldratt. This is a must read for all lean beginners and is written as a thriller style novel to transform management thinking.

You will also have many opportunities to discuss your own business improvement issues with our Lean Manufacturing Experts on the day of the training course.

This training course has been designed to suit all employees involved in the implementation of lean manufacturing, whether a machine operator or a managing director.

This course is also a great networking opportunity for you and your company will fellow manufacturers looking to instigate change. An Essential Lean Awareness Certificate will be awarded to all attendees of the course.

The benefits you will gain from attending the training course for lean beginners are as follows:

• An understanding of the size of the opportunity for business improvement that lean manufacturing operations represent for you.
• A review of the history of lean manufacturing and how it has been utilised in some of the most successful manufacturing companies around the world.
• An understanding of the 5 main principles of lean manufacturing.
• How to specify value from the standpoint of end customer.
• How to identify the value stream for each product family.
• How to make the product flow.
• How to introduce a system so the customer can pull.
• How to manage toward perfection.
• A review of the most utilised lean manufacturing tools
• Value Stream Mapping
• 5S – Workplace Organisation
• SMED
• TPM
• Visual Management
• Waste Elimination
• Understanding of types of waste within your business and how removal can lead to improved factory layout.
• Hands On Simulation: Develop skills to apply waste elimination techniques and learn how to apply to ALL business processes.
• An understanding of the difference between Old Style Management and a Lean Manufacturing Culture.
• Ideas for managing the lean manufacturing start up in your business.
• Lean Manufacturing implementation considerations and open discussions.

Course Tutors

All our Lean Manufacturing Consultants have proven business experience in a ‘lean’ environment and receive excellent feedback on course delivery. We are passionate about achieving results from our courses but also understand that sitting through hours of theory can be a little boring. Therefore we all maintain a sense of humour, discuss relevant issues and utilise as much practical work as possible.

Booking

Please contact our friendly team to discuss the quantity of staff you wish to attend the course. Our courses do fill quickly when released so please book early to avoid disappointment.

If you prefer an in-house training course tailored to suit your own business needs please discuss with a member of our team. We can adapt our courses to suit any audience and include content relevant to your current training needs.