Business Sector: Manufacturing Industry / Municipalities

Lean in Laboratories - Virtual Event - A 5-Day Certificate Program
August 22-26, 2022
In this live virtual event, learn how Lean techniques coupled with a Lean mindset speed throughput, eliminate quality issues, increase workplace satisfaction and improve customer service. The result: a 50 to 90% performance improvement plus an energized, visual laboratory workplace.

Lean Manager Certification - Fall 2022 - Columbus, OH
Week 1: Sept 12-16 / Week 2: Oct 10-14 / Week 3: Nov 7-11 / Week 4: Dec 5-8
The Lean Manager Certification program develops the knowledge, capabilities, and confidence to improve your organization through the application of Lean techniques. This fully-accredited certification is jointly offered by Productivity Inc. and The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business...
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Total Productive Maintenance Manager Certification - Fall 2022 - Columbus, OH
Week 1: Sept. 19-23 / Week 2: Oct. 17-21 / Week 3: Nov. 14-18 / Week 4: Dec. 12-15
Created to develop resources capable of leading/managing a dynamic maintenance management and equipment improvement process using Total Productive Maintenance. Fully accredited certification for TPM managers and reliability leaders since 2010.
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Manager of Maintenance Improvement Certificate - Fall 2022
Oct. 24-28 – A 5-day fully-accredited program
Provides an understanding of the core techniques for improving manufacturing performance and equipment reliability. Designed for maintenance and production resources seeking a solid understanding of the fundamental techniques for improving the maintenance process. Fully accredited...
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Hoshin Kanri: Deploying Priorities, From Vision to Daily Work
A live 6-hour virtual seminar – October 27th
Regrouping and refocusing your organization now, to concentrate on the vital few -- those things that will make a real difference to your organization’s performance -- seems a prudent thing to do. But how do you take all of the things there are to do, distill them down to the critical few and then defuse them throughout the entire organization? Through Hoshin Kanri.
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The Daily Management System
A live 6-hour virtual seminar – November 3rd
Ensuring sustainment through organization-wide operational governance.
A daily management system is a set of standard practices that keep improvement efforts on track and moving forward. DMS is the missing link in many operational excellence initiatives and the key to long-term sustainment by providing a structured way for leaders-at-all-levels to engage and provide direct, in-the-workplace, management and teaching routines.

Develop the A3 Problem-Solving Mindset
A live 6-hour virtual seminar – November 17th
Developing a culture of A3 Thinking problem-solvers.
In this interactive session, through presentation, examples, and reflections, participants will learn the importance of A3 thinking and understand how teams should act, behave and integrate problem-solving in their daily activities to generate discipline and focus on actual problems.

Lean Tool Awareness Certificate - Fall 2022
Nov 28-Dec 2 – A 5-day Fully-Accredited Program
Provides an understanding of the core Lean principles and techniques and how to use them to support your organization's CI effort. Designed for those seeking a solid understanding of Lean techniques and for managers, supervisors, and team leaders...
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Maintenance Miracle - An Autonomous Maintenance Kaizen Event - Fall 2022
Check back for dates... - a 3 ½ day hands on learning event
This event teaches the 7-steps of Autonomous Maintenance and demonstrates the process for conducting AM steps 1-3 in your facility. Designed for production, maintenance and engineering managers, supervisors, team leaders and process owners interested in improving equipment and process reliability and safety
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The 3P Experience - Beyond the Kaizen Event
Check back for dates – A 4-day program
A hands-on training featuring an interactive look inside an actual 3P project with the team members that did the work. Created to teach a process for rapidly designing (or redesigning) product and production processes to ensure capability and build in quality, reliability, and flow-takt-pull. Designed for managers of engineering, product, development, and manufacturing looking for radical improvement in design of lean supply chains, facilities, value streams, right-sized equipment, processes, products and services.
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