Lean Overview

Making companies globally competitive!

This full day session, for associates at any level in the organization, is the beginning of your organization’s lean journey toward world-class and provides the answers to your questions about Lean.  This new approach to thinking and learning supports the condition we hope for: creating a vibrant, healthy, competitive, world class organization that optimizes people, processes, and resources to succeed globally and build wealth for stakeholders.  This is a quantum leap in the application of Lean training and methodology; don’t just be lean – be vibrant, healthy, and fit. 

NOTE:  This session is the pre-requisite for all WCM Lean Courses

Course Content Includes:

• What is Lean Enterprise?
• The global economy business model
• Definition of customer satisfaction
• Definition of waste and value added
• The eight general types of business waste
• How implementing Lean improves productivity
• Distinguishing features of a Lean Enterprise
• Typical WCE implementation results
• Definition and description of the Lean Tools
• A simulation comparing batch/push production versus Lean flow production

Upon completion of the Lean Manufacturing Overview session, participants will be able to:

• Understand and define the principles of Lean
• Recognize specific wastes in their work environment
• Define the lean tools available to industry
• Determine which specific lean tools positively impact various organizational metrics
• Define how the participant can implement Lean in their own organization
• Understand how Lean methodology supports their business objectives