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Lean Training and Simulation Workshop

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How much waste is in your current process? Do you know? What would you guess? If you can't answer these questions honestly the following workshop will provide tremendous benefit.

This workshop is designed to provide an attendee with a solid understanding of Lean Fundamentals along with workplace organization, which provides some of the basic building blocks for any Lean journey. Over two days, the attendees will be exposed to the concepts of value-add and non-value add, how to create process maps and run a Value Stream Analysis. Participants will work on how to fulfill the major precept of Lean, the elimination of waste.

Case studies, classroom examples and actual hands-on activities will provide the learning experience in this Lean workshop. Three rounds of simulation, where participants team up to actually manufacture and deliver a product, are used to drive home the key concepts of ‘Value-Add’, ‘Getting it Right the first time’ and ‘Streamlining Supply Chains’. Kaizens are used between rounds to determine what changes need to be made to optimize the “factory’s” performance. Teams are judged on Quality, Cost and Delivery.

This is a great opportunity to educate your key players in the basics of Lean, Kaizens, and Supply Chain. In these demanding economic times, we need to be creative in our solutions to our manufacturing and sourcing problems. It is the goal of this workshop to help provide guidance to make these sound and practical decisions.

How do you remove chaos and confusion from your operations?

Who Should Attend:

Production teams, Material Planners, Inventory Controllers, Schedulers and Operations Staff, in addition to personnel from the Transactional world, back office, order processing, fulfillment, and supply management, will benefit from attending this two day session.
This session is designed to meet the needs of the ‘new to lean’ as well as those that may have had some training previously. It is designed to bring the concepts home, and integrate tactile learning examples into the event, driving the idea of “I hear and I forget”, “I see and I remember”, while “I do and I understand”

Schedule:
DAY 1:
Lean Journey Assessment, Student expectations, Understanding Waste
First Round Factory Simulation ~ present state
Debrief Exercise ~ lessons learned
Process Map and Value Assess Current State
Think about “ideal” future state
DAY 2:
Lean Topics Overview 5S- Workplace Organization, Visual Factory
Kaizen Planning and Execution
Round 2 Simulation with Debrief and lessons learned
Getting to flow, understanding demand, working to future state
Kaizen Planning and Execution
Round 3 Simulation with Debrief and lessons learned
Translating the learning back to your own environments

Your Instructors:

How do you engage and manage all of your assets?




Chuck Gillis and Steve Hanlon from Quality Support Group and Work Stream Consulting will be providing the training and leading the Simulations. Both Chuck and Steve have extensive industry experience in addition to being Tyco certified Lean Leaders and Black Belts. Chuck is also a certified Master Black Belt. They bring a wealth of experience and will share learnings from many of their events and engagements.

How do you engage and manage all of your assets?

Working to achieve a sense of flow.
Participant Comments:

The two day training and simulation provide sufficient depth to have an immediate impact on any organization. The simulation and debriefs really drive home the concepts. Working as teams and planning the next kaizens was extremely helpful as well.
- Op Ex Director, Idearc Media

Taking back what I learned during the Lean Training and Simulation, I was better able to support my production team as a Material Planner. The simulation gave me hands on experience with getting to flow.
- Materials Planner, Cobham

Through the implementation of the skills learned during the class and LEAN simulations, I was immediately able to realize improvements in my own departmental processes. I was able to apply LEAN principles to many aspects of my own job, realizing immediate improvements to both costs and customer service metrics.
- Business Analyst, Harris