Lean Management Training
This 2-day training teaches you the principles, tools, and philosophy of Lean. It shows you how to assess an organization’s production capacity, inefficiencies, and lead times. It also enables you to optimize operational performance through process mapping, monitoring indicators, and problem-solving workshops based on the Kaizen Event approach.
TRAINING DESCRIPTION
Objectives
- Understand the philosophy, tools, and principles of Lean Management.
- Assess the production capacity, resource losses, and delivery times of a production unit, activity flow, or organization.
- Create process mapping based on field observations.
- Analyze a process to locate and quantify various dysfunctions.
- Make operations faster, more agile, leaner, and more reliable.
- Develop a performance management system based on field indicators and problem-tracking routines.
- Lead a problem-solving workshop on flow and/or organizational efficiency using the Kaizen Event approach.
Program
- History and positioning of Lean Management
- DMAIC method and Kaizen Event
- Process capacity: cycle time and Takt time
- Work-in-progress, inventory, waiting time, and Little’s law
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
- Rhythm diagrams
- Value-added analysis and waste elimination
- Process Cycle Efficiency and Overall Process Efficiency
- First Pass Yield and Rolled Throughput Yield
- Theory of constraints and line balancing
- Continuous flow
- Pull system and kanban
- Visual management, poka-yoke, 5S
- SMED
- Heijunka, dynamic capacity adjustment, and standardization
- Maximum acceptable work-in-progress (WIP max)
- Kata and Short Interval Management
- Toyota Way
- Complex flow analysis
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Target Audience
All sectors (industry and services).
- Project managers/consultants (internal or external) in organization, quality, continuous improvement, or operational excellence.
- Logistics managers.
- Supply Chain Managers.
- Production managers.
- Operations Managers.
- Quality managers.
No prerequisites required.
Pedagogy & Learning Resources
- Inductive pedagogy: experimenting with the Lean improvement method (Kaizen Event) through a role-playing game simulating a company’s cross-functional process (order reception, processing/production, invoicing, shipping).
- Groups of a maximum of 12 participants are organized to promote interactivity, sharing of ideas and experiences, and professional network development.
- Training materials available in PDF format.
- Self-assessment test and practice at the end of the training.
Examination and Certification
Certification Lean Management obtained based on the successful completion of the Lean Management exam.
This exam validates the acquisition of Lean Management knowledge in line with the LSSx.0 body of knowledge, which is necessary for achieving the targeted skills. It includes a mix of recall questions (e.g., definitions), execution tasks (e.g., calculations, tool selection), and application of acquired knowledge (e.g., concluding based on results, making decisions in a given situation).
- Online exam, closed book, with video monitoring from the candidate’s computer.
- Multiple-choice questionnaire: 25 questions.
- Duration of the exam: 50 minutes.
- Language: French or English.
- The exam must be taken within six months after the training.
- The candidate freely schedules the exam at their chosen date and time.
- Pass criteria: Score ≥ 60%
- One retake allowed in case of failure.
- It is possible to retake the exam after a second failure by purchasing a new exam.
OUR OFFER
Duration: 2 days, or 14 hours
- Training designed by a Lean Six Sigma expert.
- Access to the student pack training kit, which includes the training manual, among other things.
- Supervision by experienced and accredited trainers (groups of a maximum of 12 participants).
- Pedagogy that encourages active participation and collaboration among learners (exercises, case studies, tests, serious games…)
- Recognized Lean Management LSSx.0 certification.
Price (inter-company)
- 1350 € + 150 € for certification*
* VAT-free. Costs related to the organization of in-person training (training venue, meals, drinks) are not included.
Intra-company training on request
We organize training sessions in France, at the location of your choice.
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