Lean Processes and Tools
Programme Overview & Summary
This awareness course enables delegates to understand the benefits of lean for their organisation; the key lean principles, tools and techniques and how to approach implementation. Lean thinking has become a widely adopted improvement approach that can greatly simplify processes and improve performance in both manufacturing and service organisations.
Style and Approach
Lean recognises that most of an organisation’s processes are at best 40% value adding. Effectively applying Lean principles and tools can significantly improve the percentage of value-added time; reduce process timescales; and reduce waste and the associated costs. At the same time there will be an improvement in customer service and satisfaction levels.
Audience
This course is suitable for all levels of professionals, contract managers, project managers, and individuals involved in simplify processes and improve performance in both manufacturing and service organisations.
Programme Structure
Through a series of workshops, delegates are exposed to a wide variety of situations to enable them to apply and practice their skills in simplify processes and improve performance in both manufacturing and service organisations.
Preparing for the workshop
None required.
Group Size
12 Delegates
Prerequisite & Requirements
All delegates must have completed the 'Lean Awareness' course first.
Supporting Resources
Course Duration
2 Day
Course Cost
For all our course pricing please login at Course pricing. Please Note: Only employees with a Network Rail email address will be allowed access.
Learning delivery
Classroom based or virtual online delivery. This course also uses a combination of discussion and interactive activities for content delivery.
Course Objectives
For delegates who have completed the 'Lean Awareness' course and follows on for the delegate to be able to undertake improvement projects.
Accreditation
Lean Processes and Tools accreditation.
Course Progression
Follows on from the 'Lean Awareness' course.
Course Syllabus/Topics
Delegates will cover on day 1:
- Lean Awareness “Recap”
- Type of improvement projects
- Lean project charter
- Voice of the Customer & Customer value
- CTQ Tree
- Kano model
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Process flow
- Value Stream Mapping Current state
- Lean Measurement
- Analysing Variability
- Operational definitions
- Data collection - historic and new data
Delegates will cover on day 2:
- 5S audits
- Determining lean metrics
- Analyse current state
- Identifying waste
- Root cause analysis tools
- Lean Principles
- Push versus pull & kanbans
- Workload balance/takt time
- Set-up reduction, SMED
- Standard work
- Future state Value Stream Map
- Measuring, sustaining communicating the gain
- Control chart basics
Course Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, the delegate will be able to:
- The key principles of quality improvement
- The key lean principles and the focus on waste elimination
- Customer value, value streams and waste
- The key lean tools and techniques
- Approach to implementing lean in their organisation.
How to apply
If you would like to attend this course or have any queries about your projects following the course, or wish to submit your project for accreditation, please goto our how to book webpage.
