Creating the Lean Enterprise: Eliminating Waste and Creating a Continuous Improvement Culture within an Operations Environment

    About Course leader

    A highly accomplished and dynamic Senior Executive possessing outstanding credentials of organisational transformation and business turnaround with specialist knowledge of Lean, TPS, and Operational Excellence Lee has a proven track record of successful transformation within major corporations with typical examples of his current project returning profit increase of in excess of £23 milli...

     

    Read full Profile
    Stephen Gorse
    Independent Lean Consultant
    Vice President, Operational Excellence
    Stephen Gorse

    About Course leader

    Stephen has been involved in the development and implementation of Lean enterprise solutions for the past fifteen (20) years. He received his initial Lean training in the UK during his time with Toyota which included several trips to Japan for advanced TPS training from the TMC Sensei. Stephen has also spent valuable time with the founders of Japanese Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM) and P...

     

    Read full Profile

    Attendees Include

    Participants

    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.

    >> Who is it for?

    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.

    >> What will I be able to do after participating?

    • 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