Course description
LEAN Process Improvement: Delivering More with Less
Processing requests taking forever? Customers calling to complain about delays and high delivery costs? Worried you could be losing business as a result? LEAN process improvement tools offer simple fixes that will change your thinking, improve your operations, AND deliver quick solutions. LEAN can be especially relevant if you're coming out of the recession with fewer resources and need to deliver more with less. In this course, you'll discover there are 7 types of waste and 5 methods to eliminate it—5S, Poka Yoke, Kanban, and Kaizen. You will learn the DMAIC process (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control), LEAN metrics, and how LEAN relates to Six Sigma. Now, you can map the customer value stream and determine which activities add value to the customer and which do not. Then, you will learn to eliminate or curtail non-value-adding activities. A highly interactive case study will cement the learning as you participate in repairing a broken process with instructor guidance utilizing LEAN tools and principles.
How you will benefit:
- Focus your actions on customer requirements
- Differentiate between value and non-value-adding activities
- Measure and analyze the efficiency of an existing process
- Improve the efficiency of a broken, cumbersome process
- Re-measure the efficiency of an improved process
- Customize a LEAN tool you can utilize right away
- Deliver better results faster with fewer resources
Upcoming start dates
Who should attend?
Training content
This training course will cover:
- Understanding LEAN methodology concepts
- Finding and assessing the bottlenecks that make your internal processes costly and cumbersome
- Mapping the customer value stream
- Identifying LEAN metrics
- Discerning the connection between LEAN and Six Sigma
- Grasping the 7 types of waste
- Understanding the 5 key LEAN methods used for process improvement : 5S, Poka, Yoke, Kanban, and Kaizen
- Implementing LEAN tools to decrease process waste
- Recognizing the elements of continuous improvement
Costs
Course price for:
- Non Members: $2295
- AMA Members: $2095
Certification / Credits
CEU: 1.2
American Management Association Company Info
The American Management Association, International (AMA) is the global leader in talent development. Founded in 1923, AMA supports the goals of individuals and organizations through a complete range of educational products and services, including instructor-led classroom and virtual seminars, webinars,...
