Lean - supervisory training

By the end of this practical and example-driven ‘hands-on’ course Supervisors will be able to provide leadership and guidance to their teams to make local improvements using fundamental Lean tools and techniques mandated by SC21. Course highlights include –

Lean tools for the team

Kaizen Blitz improvement activities based on P-D-C-A
Visual Control and Production Charts
Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)
Process Flow & Process Layout Diagrams
Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

Problem-solving for the team

Brainstorming and Brain-Writing
Pareto Analysis
5-Whys Root Cause Analysis and Cause-and-Effect Diagrams
5W1H and ‘Is – Is Not’ questioning methods
8-D Problem-Solving method
Poka-Yoke (error proofing on the shop floor)

Data collection & anlaysis for the team

Understanding measurables, quantifiers and goals
Capturing and recording data
Scatter Plots, Run Charts, Tally Charts, Dot-Plots and Histograms

Housekeeping for the team

5-S practice
Visual Management
TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)

Lean tools

Shop-floor training in lean tools for the team

Problem-solving

Problem-solving for the team

Data collection & analysis

Data collection and analysis for the team

5-S practice for the team

5-S practice for the team