Add Time And Motion Study Training Courses to Your Lean Training Library

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Keeping Lean moving forward is a constant job that requires dedication, commitment and access to proper resources to accomplish.

While you may feel that your Lean system has pretty much what it needs, there are always a few new skills, techniques and concepts that can help make Lean more effective than ever.

Expanding your Training Library:

• One way to grow your Lean implementation is to provide the proper tools for the expansion of your in house training library, which should include:
• Remedial and refresher courses for review, Kaizen workshops and bringing new hires into line with your Lean systems.
• Intermediate and advanced Lean concepts required for achieving your Lean strategic goals.
• Special tools that can be used in a variety of situations.
• Lean Office, Management, Service Training Courses are available that can help you build a proper training regimen. Uttana.com has a number of titles that can help.
  
  
  

  Basic and Remedial Courses:

•  Introduction to Lean: This set of courses will take staff and management through the basics of a Lean system. Perfect for new hires, segments of the courses can be extracted for refresher training in Kaizen Workshops. Topics covered in the series are:
•  Lean Fundamentals: The basic overview of a Lean system
•  Lean History: How and why Lean was developed.
•  Why Lean: Why Lean works better than may other manufacturing and productivity systems.
• Key US Players that Influenced Lean Manufacturing: While Lean was developed in Japan for the Japanese auto industry, it was not developed in a vacuum. Many manufacturing and organizational innovations from US industry were adapted and integrated into Lean.
• Key Japanese Leaders that Influenced the Toyota Production System: The TPS is the beginning of the Lean revolution and there are a number of Japanese innovators who were part of that effort.
• Advancing the Concept of Lean: Continuous improvement is not easy but it is essential to a successful Lean effort. This video will highlight successful strategies for sustaining Lean.

Advanced Courses:

Moving lean to the next level should always be part of the corporate strategy, and there are so many ways that you go. A few advanced techniques from the Uttana catalog may prove helpful:

• Hoshin Kanri:A comprehensive approach to unifying the company’s strategic vision among all elements of the workforce.
• A3 Problem Solving: An advanced technique for dealing with problems that occur in a Lean system.
• Kanban: A unique approach to supply chain management and material handling that can help you to achieve just in time delivery while guaranteeing proper stock for your production needs.
• SMED Quick Changeover: This course will help you to develop techniques for speeding up line changeovers, allowing you to reduce or eliminate line down time do to an operational change.

Special Tools:

In addition to large scale techniques and methods, Lean contains many special tools and skill sets that can be applied to a variety of situations. Courses on the following are available from Uttana.com:

• Barriers to Lean Training Courses: These will help you to identify and deal with the issues, attitudes, traditions and arbitrary rules that impede the implementation of a Lean initiative.
• Time and Motion Study Training Courses:These will provide you with the skills to create the metrics required in any Lean initiative.
• Visual Management Training Courses:These will help you to maintain and improve the Lean communications principles that allow Lean to function like it does.