OUR OFFER
One-day training organized exclusively for intra-company sessions.
Duration: 1 day
- Complete training program designed by a Lean Six Sigma expert
- Access to the Student Pack training kit, which includes, among other things, the training manual
- 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…)
TRAINING DESCRIPTION
Objectives
- Discover the method for improving activity flow and eliminating waste using the Kaizen Event approach
- Evaluate the production capacity, resource losses, and delivery times of a production unit, activity flow, or organization
- Create process mapping based on field observations to describe and communicate the reality of operations to management
- Analyze a process to locate and quantify bottlenecks, overcapacities, and waste
- Make operations faster, more agile, and leaner
Program
- Download the documentation
- 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
- Theory of constraints and line balancing
- Continuous flow
- Maximum acceptable work-in-progress (WIP max)
Target Audience
- 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
- Quality engineers
- Anyone involved or concerned with a Lean improvement process
- All sectors (industry and services)
Pédagogy
- Inductive pedagogy
- Experimentation with the Lean improvement method (Kaizen Event) through a role-playing game simulating a cross-functional business process (order reception, processing/production, invoicing, shipping)
- Learning the DMAIC method through a company case study used as a guiding thread throughout the training
- Learning to solve “indiscernible” problems using statistical tools in a service level improvement case study (paper flying machines) executed in class by participants
- Conducting a design of experiments in class to optimize the geometry of paper flying machines
- Determining the capability of a screw production process
- Determining the capability of a printing process
- Groups of a maximum of 12 participants to promote interactivity, idea-sharing, and networking
- Use of JASP, Statoscopex, and Minitab software
- Provision of statistical calculators and analysis models in Excel
- Training materials available in PDF and paper versions
- Reference book: “LSSx.0 – 1. Flow Problems and Lean Management”
- Reference book: “LSSx.0 – 2. Discernible Problems and Methodological Foundation”
- Self-assessment and practice tests at the end of each module
- Inductive pedagogy