The Path To Higher Lean Learning Begins Here

Productivity Inc. and the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University are offering a program unlike any other. It´s called the Lean Manager Certificate Program (LMAC). It´s designed for middle and top-level executives at any company who seek the essential knowledge necessary to drive Lean throughout their entire organization.

This highly interactive and fully accredited program teaches a carefully sequenced arrangement of Lean concepts and tools. Over four non-consecutive weeks, each participant will experience a series of learning modules focusing on the four key phases of Lean implementation: Plan, Pilot, Deploy and Integrate. In between the weeks of training, students need to apply the methods that they have learned in operations at their own companies and present their results to the class.

It is required that each participant in the program have a corporate sponsor to attest to the participant´s qualification for the program and to the results achieved through the homework assignments.

Participants who successfully complete the four-week training and mentoring program, pass the two-hour certification exam and demonstrate successful implementation in their own facility are then certified by Productivity Inc. and the Fisher College of Business as Lean Managers.

"It is a great experience, the facilitators provide a perfect balance of theory, real life experience and hands on exercises."
— Luis A. Correa / Lean Manager / Thermo King

So What Have LMAC Graduates Gained From The Program?

One of the things that can´t be measured is the new insights these certified Lean Managers discovered in their own businesses. The Lean Manager Certificate Program provides participants a uniquely different approach to uncovering opportunities for change that contribute to the bottom line in a sequence that maximizes the positive effects of the change process.

Some results that have been achieved by our Certified Lean Managers in just the homework portion of the program include:

• A $67,000 annualized cost-savings–recognized between weeks 1 and 2
• Lead time of 11 days reduced to 3 days – a 72.7% reduction
• Build-to-customer schedule increased from 59% to 95% – a 61% improvement
• Inventory of 233,000 lbs. reduced to 57,000 lbs. – a 75.5% reduction
• 6274 square foot space savings
• 80% Work-in-Process reduction
• 88% Work-in-Process reduction
• 92% Lead time reduction
• 58.1% Lead time reduction
• Generation of $250,000.00 cash flow
• Floor inventory turns improved from 9 to 24 times (monthly)
• 27% reduction in floor space used
• 89% Improvement in Value added Ratio

The opportunity to rerationalize your production process is a rare one and none of the LMAC Certified Lean Managers wasted the chance.

Participants Who Have Completed This Program Are Able To:

• Perform an organizational assessment and baselining process
• Create a detailed deployment plan based on baseline analysis
• Perform as a principal change agent
• Lead and direct site teams in completing plantwide deployment of Lean methodologies
• Mentor and coach project leaders, area managers, and supervisors in specific tools and methods
• Coach and mentor suppliers´ change agents in addressing critical quality and delivery problems

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About Productivity Inc.

Productivity Inc. is a leading international consulting, training and publishing company. Since 1979 we have been helping companies worldwide achieve lasting measurable improvements in cost, quality and delivery. Over the years, Productivity Inc. has researched the most innovative and effective management strategies and tools from the United Sates, Europe, Japan and around the world. This extensive research has resulted in the development of our Lean Management System, a system for the strategic implementation of lean management and a learning model for its deployment companywide.

Productivity's Consultants and Trainers are manufacturing process improvement professionals with real world experience implementing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement strategies that deliver measurable bottom line results. They have an average of 25 years experience working in industry. Our consultants are first generation lean consultants -having worked with the originators of process improvement strategies such as Shigeo Shingo, Yoshiki Iwata, Ryuji Fukuda, and Iwao Kobayashi, implementing these strategies both in Japan and in the United States.

Like our people, our products and services are leading edge, and have been used by most every company in the Fortune 500. All of our materials can be tailored to fit the unique cultural needs of your business. Today, Productivity Inc. continues to be industry's primary resource for the strategy and tools to achieve competitive advantage.

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About Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University

The Ohio State University is a leading comprehensive teaching and research university offering a magnificent environment for learning in one of the largest universities in the country. Our mission is the attainment of international distinction in education, scholarship, and public service. Ohio State combines a responsibility for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge with a land-grant heritage of public service. It offers an extensive range of academic programs in the liberal arts, the sciences, and the professions.

For more than 80 years, the Fisher College of Business has produced exceptional leaders who meet the challenges of a changing global business environment through creative and effective solutions. In 1993, the college received a major gift from alumnus Max M. Fisher, a leading industrialist and philanthropist. In recognition of his commitment, the college was designated the Max M Fisher College of Business later that year.

During the past ten years, the college has undergone what could be characterized as a "corporate" turnaround under the leadership of Dean Joseph A. Alutto. Narrowing the focus of its programs to promote higher academic quality and recruiting and retaining exceptional faculty has propelled the college to the forefront of the nation's business schools.

The college’s Center for Excellence in Manufacturing Management (CEMM) is a key vehicle for knowledge transfer. Fisher College’s MBA program was ranked 14th in the Wall Street Journal’s 2001 ranking of business schools, and 19th by the U.S. News & World Report's2004 ranking. Fisher College is now one of only 10 schools in the country with both the graduate and undergraduate programs ranked in the U.S. News' top 20. This success in large is being attributed to the ongoing commitment to improving their academic programs and to the strength of the faculty. The college placed in the top 20 of more than 700 accredited MBA programs in the nation for research productivity.

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