Creating the Lean Enterprise: Eliminating waste and creating a continuous improvement culture within an operations environment

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This Lean Manufacturing course is designed to create the necessary context to drive behaviours and help gain an understanding of the lean tools and their applicability and use, to help focus organisation efforts to improve management effectiveness and achieve superior results.

It will provide delegates systematic productivity improvement tools and techniques to deliver the highest quality products at the lowest cost with a focus on performance excellence through elimination of waste and optimise efficiency.

Leadership is the key to the business methodology and principles that will help focus on long term vision and develop a continual improvement structure that helps to quantify client's needs and to coach for success. The term 'Lean' is more of a culture change approach rather than merely a 'set of tools', and leveraging the power
of people rather than simple investment in new equipment.

The course will help delegates to open their 'Lean eyes' to understand their operations and change their thinking way and to see the many significant benefits of continuous improvement through Lean Manufacturing.

This advanced workshop focuses on:

• Techniques such as the necessary leadership, people coaching and sustainability aspects of performance
  improvement.
• Importance of loss analysis, prioritisation, target conditions, visual communication and routines and
  systems to identify root cause and eliminate waste.
• Methods which can support the achievement of zero loss and through sustained and systematic Tools
  which are able to be deployed to all functions and areas and once trained and coached, may be used by all
  employees in the common pursuit of the ultimate goal – world class manufacturing.

Mid to senior managers, directors and VPs within any sector who are involved in manufacturing operations, supply chain, logistics and operational excellence, world class manufacturing or continuous improvement.

• Identify and create a suitable strategy for the implementation of Lean Manufacturing to create the Lean
  enterprise
• Develop techniques to improve leadership, teamwork and effective operations
• Analyse the current situation of your own operations and identify key wastes to address within an overall
  improvement process
• Create awareness of lean principles, lean tools and techniques and the correct application of them in the
  workplace
• Play an active role in reduction of waste, reduction in costs and improvement in safety, quality and delivery
• Enable sustainability of improvements through the establishment of standards and target conditions and
  routines to control the same
• Understand the value of loss tree analysis, flow and pull, and focused improvement and sustaining actions