For many businesses, the shift to Lean Culture comes from simultaneously defining customer value, aligning around a common purpose, striving for perfection, and respecting and developing employees. Lean Culture results when in the quest to provide customer value, leadership supports and promotes the building of a "problem solving muscle" within the workforce.
The Lean Training and Certification course is a simplified, interactive way to quickly and effectively study process improvement and learn organizational shifts from veteran Lean practitioners. You will gain new management skills and learn how to establish your own process improvement. Upon completion of this course, you will be adequately prepared to test for Lean Certification.
Instructor(s):Ken Maynard
Ken Maynard is currently the Director of Client Success at GoLeanSixSigma.com. He has over a 30-year record of driving improved quality and higher profitability with organizations in a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, healthcare, financial services, medical devices, government, food & beverage, automotive, and consumer products.
Ken has also worked with leaders to complete successful enterprise-wide continuous improvement, reengineering, and product design projects that resulted in high-value transformations.
Requirements:
Hardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 8 or later.
- Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
- Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
- Any word processing application (not included in enrollment).
- Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
Other:
- Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.
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Lesson 1
- Introduction to Lean
- What Is Lean?
- The History of Lean
- The Focus of Lean
- What Is a Lean Process?
- Why Do Organizations Use Lean?
- The Cost of Poor Quality
- Focus on the Process
- Lean Principles
- How Do You Define Value?
- What Is Flow?
- The Concept of Pull
- The Impact of Pull
- How Do You Pursue Perfection?
- How to Establish Current State
- PDCA
- A3
- 8 Wastes
- Organizational Level Process Map
- Value Stream Map (VSM)
- Swimlane Map
- Process Walk
- Spaghetti Chart
- Customer Value
- Lean Metrics
- Process Analysis
- Value Stream Map Analysis
- Histogram
- Pareto Chart
- The 5 Whys & The Fishbone Diagram
- How to Develop Future Stat
- Single Piece Flow & Batch Reduction
- Changeover Reduction
- Work Cell Design
- Workload Balancing & Demand Levelling
- Cross Training
- Kanban & Supermarkets
- Standard Work
- Visual Management
- 5S
- Value Stream Map Future State
- Quick Wins
- Rapid Improvement Event (Kaizen Event)
- Pilots
- Multi-Phase Implementation
- Mistake-Proofing (Poka Yoke)
- Pursue Perfection
- How to Build a Lean Culture
- Leader Standard Work (LSW)
- Leader Task Boards
- A3 Coaching
- Leader Process Performance Boards
- Leader Huddle Meetings
- Leader Process Walks
- Meeting Productivity
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Communication Plan
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