Course Objective: Learning Programs

Lean in Laboratories - Virtual Event - A 5-Day Certificate Program

April 24-28, 2023

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.

Leading Lean

Achieving and sustaining a CI culture requires leaders at every level to manage change and drive results. Learn the concepts, techniques, and behaviors for creating your lean leadership playbook and routines for teaching/coaching teams.

4-session virtual event designed for site leaders, operations VPs, lean and production manager.
May 4^th, 11^th, 18^th, 25^th 2023

Hoshin Kanri: Deploying Priorities, From Vision to Daily Work

A live 6-hour virtual seminar – May 11^th

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.

The Daily Management System

A live 6-hour virtual seminar – May 18^th

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.

Manager of Maintenance Improvement Certificate - Fall 2023

September 11-15 – 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...

Lean Tool Awareness Certificate - Fall 2023

Sept 25-29, 2023 – 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...

Maintenance Miracle - An Autonomous Maintenance Kaizen Event - Spring 2023

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 Lean Office - Fall 2023 - COLUMBUS, OH

A 5-day fully-accredited program - Check Back for Dates...

Provide an understanding of the foundational Lean techniques specifically designed for application in a service organization or manufacturing service environment. Designed for service and administrative managers looking to start a Lean effort in their organization.

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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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Strengthen Your Lean Basics - Series

A Consultant-Led Series of Virtual Events

Sit your improvement strategy atop a solid foundation
We invite leaders to reenergize their improvement efforts by returning to the basics. The timing could not be better to regroup and refocus your organization on those things that will make a difference in 2021…improvements in quality, cost, delivery and safety. No surprise, the foundational principles of Lean have a lot to offer here to help you.