Lean Management in English À distance

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 flow and kanban
• Visual management, poka-yoke, 5S
• SMED
• Heijunka, dynamic capacity adjustment, and standardization
• Maximum acceptable work in progress (WIPmax)
• Kata and Short Interval Management
• Toyota Way
• Complex flow analysis
• Failure Mode Analysis (FMEA)

• Understand the philosophy, tools, and principles of Lean Management.
• Evaluate production capacity, resource losses, and delivery times of a production unit, activity flow, or organization.
• Establish a process mapping based on field observations.
• Analyze a process to locate and quantify dysfunctions of all kinds.
• Make operations faster, more agile, leaner, and more reliable.
• Develop a performance management system based on field indicators and problem tracking routines.
• Conduct a workshop for solving flow problems and/or organizational efficiency using the Kaizen Event approach.

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

• Inductive pedagogy: experimentation with the Lean improvement method (Kaizen Event) through a role-playing game simulating a cross-functional business process.
• Groups of no more than 12 people facilitated to promote interactivity, sharing of ideas and experiences, and the development of professional networks.

• Training support available in PDF format.
• Self-assessment and training test at the end of the training.

Certification Exam

Online Lean Management exam, closed book under video surveillance to be taken within 6 months after the training.

• Multiple choice questionnaire consisting of 25 questions (exam duration: 50 minutes)
• Passing criterion: at least 60%
• This exam validates the acquisition of Lean Management knowledge according to the LSSx.0 knowledge framework, which is necessary for developing the targeted skills. It includes a mix of recall questions (e.g. definitions), execution questions (e.g. calculations, tool selection), and application questions (e.g. drawing conclusions based on a result, making a decision in a given situation).

• Comprendre la philosophie, les outils et principes du Lean Management.
• Evaluer la capacité de production, les déperditions de ressources et les délais de livraison d’une unité de production, d’un flux d’activités ou d’une organisation.
• Etablir une cartographie de processus sur base d’observations de terrain.
• Analyser un processus afin de localiser et quantifier les dysfonctionnements de toutes natures.
• Rendre les opérations plus rapides, agiles, sobres et fiables.
• Elaborer un système de pilotage de la performance s’appuyant sur des indicateurs de terrain et des routines de suivi des problèmes.
• Conduire un atelier de résolution de problèmes de flux et/ou d’efficience organisationnelle en s’appuyant sur l’approche Kaizen Event.

In-house training on request

We organize training sessions throughout Belgium, at your chosen location.

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