Continuous Improvement (CI) uses many Lean Tools which are still powerful and fundamental today.
This course gives practical introductory training on the pillar principals for CI and sends your people away with an understanding of how to begin the process of finding their next level.
- 5s: A properly sized, clean, organized, safe workplace is the best place to start.
- JIT: "Just in time" inventory management and delivery to customer reduces waste and costs.
- Heijunka: Visual, simple production planning that flexes with customer demand with reduced production lead-time and costs.
- Jidoka: Autonomation-"automation with a human touch". Teaches how to design a system to identify a defect, stop the process, fix the defect and root cause the process.
- Takt Time: Designing the process to match off to customer demand.
- Poka Yoke: Error proofing a process.
- Kaizen: Targeted team based improvement-absolutely fundamental to Lean.
- PDCA: Plan, Do, Check, Act (or Adjust). A fundamental tool in supporting many of the other key elements of Lean mentioned above.
Typically an 8 hour course. Pricing is dependent on the situation...let's talk.