Managing for Daily Improvement - A five-day workshop from the TBM LeanSigma^® Institute

Overview

A five-day workshop, taught on the shop floor of a leading Lean company, providing critical supervisor training that will enable front-line supervisors, production managers, support group managers and their production teams to effectively implement and sustain daily continuous improvement. In addition to training in the use of tools for visual management, waste elimination and daily improvement, the workshop includes significant interaction with senior management for the purpose of developing action plans. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

Implement and sustain standard operations in the work area.
Visually track and sustain SQDC metrics to meet or exceed daily production targets

We can also conduct this workshop for your company, on-site.

Who Should Attend

Front-line supervisors, team leaders and line facilitators
Production, process and support group managers and their key staff members (especially Engineering, Quality, Maintenance and Materials support groups)
Continuous Improvement or Kaizen Promotion Managers and their key staff members
Plant, division and department managers

What You Will Learn

The definition of world class and how your company or production area matches up regarding a Lean Progression Matrix
Applying a “Progressive 5S Strategy,” which evaluates each step of the 5S process quantitatively – and the standard work required to evaluate and measure the process
Creating, implementing and measuring key performance metrics and targets in the areas of Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC), as well as the standard work which evaluates each along with audit strategies
Understanding Cycle, Lead and Takt Times, their application and the establishment of a Cycle Time/Takt Time chart to develop standard operations
Understanding and identifying key Waste Elimination strategies to ensure continuous cycle time reductions that are critical to productivity improvements
How to apply key Point Kaizen strategies to optimize floor layouts along with key principles of motion economy
How to apply defect collection, quality mapping, counter measure and poke yoke strategies to ensure continuous improvement and generate dramatic improvement and cost savings
How to identify and eliminate non-value adding activities across your value chain and optimize lead time and responsiveness
How you can convert process “details,” such as set-up time, into significant competitive advantages
Creating the standard work to apply these tools and techniques along with the abnormality management strategies to transform your company’s culture based on involvement and management credibility
Learn how to develop a matrix to identify the “value versus non-value added,” activities of a shop floor supervisor
Creating an “Implementation Matrix,” that will detail the key tasks, contact individuals and timeline as to how you will roll out your Managing for Daily Improvement and Audit program

Your Instructors

Your instructors for this workshop are senior TBM consultants who have spent a minimum of ten years, hands-on, driving substantial business improvement for global continuous process companies and discrete manufacturers. Each brings an expertise in the fundamentals of the Toyota Production System – and how to implement them with Six Sigma – in a single, coordinated initiative.

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