Lean Training

Why Lean training is important

Do you plan to implement Lean practices in your organization?

If your answer is yes, then you should seriously consider investing in Lean training to ensure that your Lean implementation progresses effectively. Lean training is essential to manufacturing (and other industries) survival in this new age.

Lean training provides the tools you need to understand how Lean production can be driven by real customer needs, rather than by traditional forecasting, helps to identify waste and how waste can be eliminated, and shows how managers and workers can work together to optimize processes and practices.

By receiving good Lean training, you will be able to:

• maximize organization gains by properly applying Lean production concepts

• obtain measurable gains and return on your Lean investment

• reduce employee training times

• reduce Lean training costs within your organization

What to look for in Lean training

Choose the type of Lean training that best meets your organization's needs. Ideally, your training should include information about:

• business process value stream mapping so that you can create effective blueprints for applying tools and targeting events

• developing end-to-pull delivery systems

• developing Lean lines and cells

• developing Lean strategies

• Lean accounting and how to switch from a batch methodology to a flow methodology

• Lean policy management

• Lean warehousing methods, analysis, and implementation

• making materials flow effectively through the production process

• maximizing knowledge about products and customer needs

• methods for identifying and defusing conflicts within the organization

• methods for training your company's personnel

• mistake proofing Lean processes

• optimizing product development processes

• setting up Lean implementation teams

• standardizing work

• supporting Lean within the organization

Date Updated: Jan 21, 2008
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