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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.
