Introduction:
Lean practitioners are powerful change agents who drive fast, effective organizational improvements. They play a key role in many organizations. The Lean Practitioner Program is specially developed for Change Agents within the organization tasked to lead or participate in continual improvement projects. A Lean Practitioner focuses on specific aspects of the Lean tools, techniques and concepts within the complete Lean curriculum. This program will facilitate the development of a much more in-depth Lean Practitioner’s skill set to enable Lean Practitioners to return to their workplace and make a real measurable difference.
Lean Practitioner Certification Requirements:
- Read the ice berg story
- Attend the course
- Complete one lean project
Program Outline:
Day 1 – Define and Identify Stages
- Change Management
- The principles of Lean
- Voice of customer
- Business case
- SIPOC
- Smart Goal
- Domains of Waste
- Waste Identification and Elimination
- CI way of working (WOW)
- Problem solving model and the A3
- Lean Simulation
- Value Stream Mapping
Day 2 – Eliminate Stage
- Brainstorming
- Fishbone
- 5 Whys
- 5S
- Cellular flow
- Material supermarket & Kanban
- Quality in station
- PDCA
- Workload levelling
- Single piece flow
- Takt time
- To be VSM
Day 3 – Sustain Stage
- SOP
- GO to Gemba
- Visual Management
- Leader standard work
- Role of the lean practitioner
- Certification deliverables
- Kaizen events
Target Audience:
Lean Project Team Members and Change Agents