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5S & Visual Factory
This introductory training provides participants with the understanding and the tools to begin systematically implementing a safe, visual, and orderly workplace. It focuses on the 5S's (Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, and Shitsuke) and explains in simple terms how these concepts contribute to a safe and effective North American company. The onsite implementation puts the concepts learned to work. This session should be considered for those looking to establish an ongoing approach to building a visual environment in preparation for the application of a visual management system.
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Carbon Footprinting 101
In the new era of a low carbon economy, it is quickly becoming a necessity to track the carbon output of a business. Traditionally there has been no price or penalties associated with carbon and organizations have been able to produce carbon with little to no costs associated with it. This is changing. The introduction of cap and trade schemes, customer and stakeholder demand as well as other market forces require that organizations measure and track their carbon footprint in order to compete and win. Carbon presents a new challenge to business, one that has costs and risks but also presents tremendous opportunities for those who can successfully measure it.
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Continuous Improvement Through Teamwork (C.I.T.T.)
This practical workshop is intended to provide an understanding of the process and yet provide simple tools that participants can take away and apply in a Continuous Improvement environment. The workshop is presented from the perspective of what is required to become a more competitive and effective High Performance or World Class competitor. The training is focused in four: 1) Continuous Improvement Teams; 2) Effective Communication/Team Meetings; 3) Continuous Improvement Tools; 4) The CITT Process.
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Effective Lean Management Skills
There is a need for change. It has been a North American weakness to promote good technical people into managerial positions based on their technical capabilities, not on their ability to manage and achieve results through people. For many, the change is made with little or no training provided, which presents the risk of weakening technical strengths while producing ineffective managers.
Today, achieving results through others has never been more critical. In Lean environments, where productivity and continuous improvement determine one’s ability to compete and win, this course provides the practical thinking, tools, and skills to achieve results through people.
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Introduction to Lean Principles 101
Lean, like swimming, cannot be taught in the classroom. This hands-on simulation is a must as it puts Lean Thinking and Lean Manufacturing into perspective. Participants assume specific roles in the Sky-View Airplane Company and use Lean Tools and thinking to escalate productivity, quality, and output. This unqiue approach puts Value Stream Mapping, One-Piece Flow, Plant Layout, Quick Set-Up and more into perspective.
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Introduction to Pull Systems
This one-day workshop includes on the floor hands-on experience and is divided into two sessions. In the first session participants obtain the ‘big picture’ interactively from a generic example based on one company’s approach to applying “Lean Thinking” and their implementation of a practical “Pull System” that reduced waste throughout their operation. The afternoon ‘shop floor experience’ session forms participants into teams who select an area at the host facility where a Pull System could be implemented. The teams gather data, and apply the tools learned in the first session to carry out an analysis and develop a 20-day action plan that the company can follow to implement the Pull System. This session may also be delivered in a half-day format without the shop-floor component.
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Introduction to World Class Fundamentals
World Class competitiveness demands an integrated waste-free enterprise with a clear vision that's targeted on the customer. This one-day 'first course' provides everyone throughout an enterprise with the "Big Picture" of what World Class/High Performance is all about and how winning companies are competing and winning in today's global marketplace. The roles and responsibilities involved in making it work are introduced in an open, conversational, and highly interactive way.
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Lean Accounting
The purpose of this class is to train the lean accounting team in the methods required to implement lean accounting. During this highly interactive class the participants learn the principles of lean accounting and how those principles work out in practice for the management accounting required to support lean production cells. The class uses real-life case studies and worked examples to provide the team with hands-on experience of the development of lean performance measurements, transaction elimination, the financial benefits of lean manufacturing, summary direct costing, product cost, and target costs to support lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.
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Set-up Reduction
This hands-on workshop provides the practical concepts and understanding needed to reduce the set-up time for equipment and processes. Lean manufacturing considers most set-up time as waste and a non-value added activity that must be reduced or eliminated to increase throughput velocity and responsiveness to the customer. High emphasis is placed on understanding how set-up, and set-up issues influence behaviour and results. This is followed by the major part of the session, which focuses on the shop floor where practitioners dissect an actual real-world set-up situation. Participants typically reduce most set-up times by 50% following the process.
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Lean for Office Environments (Effective Office)
If you are responsible for an office/business process or are the leader of a team responsible for an office/business process, this one-day interactive simulation/workshop is designed to provide you with a powerful-yet-simple, tool to make the business process value stream visible and to use these tools to make business processes more effective. Based on the principles of the ‘Lean Enterprise’ the workshop will include an understanding of Lean tactics, tools, and proven practices that apply to the business process professional’s role.
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The Practice of Leadership & Coaching Program
This unique 5 month course (7 days total) is designed to develop people - at all levels - to lead to the best of their ability and become skilled in coaching others. It is leadership combined with the ability to build relationships that will give people, and our companies, the winning competitive edge. It is a must for organizations looking to bring about positive cultural change by using your most important asset - people.
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Lean Product & Process Design
Why pay for waste? Studies have shown that in many firms, only one hour in eight of a team member’s time is actually spent creating Value for their firm’s customers. This workshop presents a toolbox of waste-slashing methods and powerful lean design strategies that you can use tomorrow to increase the speed and efficiency of your product development process. The twelve “lean methods” described in this course enable dramatic reductions in time to market while freeing up valuable resources for additional development work. Firms that have embraced these practical tools have reported up to 50 percent reduction in schedules, dramatic improvements in gross margin, and enhanced customer satisfaction.
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Lean Purchasing & Procurement
This interactive session is designed for procurement-professional/practitioner teams seeking a needed, powerful-yet-simple tool to make the purchasing stream visible. Participants become members of the purchasing department of the Sky-View Aircraft Company which has just adopted Lean/World Class thinking to increase productivity and improve its competitive position. Participants learn how to practically integrate the Lean Purchasing/Procurement Value Stream with both Supply Chain and Lean Manufacturing operations. Participants focus on the company’s purchasing value streams, and learn how to use Lean thinking to identify non-value added activities, reduce waste, and improve the effectiveness of both processes and information flow with the goal of enhancing customer success.
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Value Stream Mapping
This one-day introductory workshop provides participants with an increased ability to see flow in their workplaces through the use of a simple, easy to use, yet powerful visual tool. Once mastered, the tool systematically enables you to map parts and material flow on paper with the help of those directly involved.
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