Module #1

1. Introduction to “Lean”: The eight “Wastes” and the Lean Tools & Techniques
2. Kaizen
3. Comparison of Lean to Six Sigma, TQM, ISO 9001, etc.

60 minutes

#2

1. Process Improvement vs. Root Cause Analysis
2. Problem Solving Techniques in Lean; Lean Manufacturing vs. Toyota Production System vs. Lean Enterprise vs. Service Lean (e.g. Lean Healthcare)
3. Cost & Cycle Time Reduction;
4. Quality & On-time Delivery Improvement

60 minutes

#3

1. Introduction to the Lean Building Blocks
2. 5S
3. Visual Management
4. Standard Work
5. Point of Use Storage

60 minutes

#4

1. Further Lean Building Blocks II
2. Streamlined Layout
3. Single Piece Flow & Batch Size Reduction
4. Quick Changeover
5. Quality at the Source
6. Error Proofing

60 minutes

#5

1. Further Lean Building Blocks III
2. Push vs. Pull
3. Just-in-Time
4. Pull/Kanban
5. Lean Cells
6. Total Productive Maintenance

60 minutes

#6

1. Further Lean Building Blocks IV
2. Hoshin Planning
3. Lean Teams
4. Leadership & Change Management in Lean Environments

60 minutes

#7

1. How to conduct Lean Kaizen events
2. How to sustain Lean improvements
3. Quick Summary of Lean & Kaizen

60 minutes

#8

1. Change Management True Case Study
2. Best practices, the pitfalls, sustaining improvements by incorporating change into daily work-life

60 minutes