2-Day Lean Techniques (In-Company for up to 12 delegates)
- Duration: 2 days
- Location: Delivered at your facility
- Group Size: Up to 12 delegates (fixed price for full group)
- This 2-Day Lean Techniques course is ideal for professionals and teams across all business functions who are committed to driving workplace efficiency and improvement, including:
- Operations Managers
- Continuous Improvement Leaders
- Quality Assurance Professionals
- Production and Manufacturing Supervisors
- Business Process Analysts
- Team Leaders and Supervisors
- Project Managers
- Supply Chain and Logistics Professionals
- Anyone responsible for enhancing productivity and customer satisfaction
Plug In and Learn
Get hands-on with the Plug Game, a fun, practical,
fast-paced factory simulation where you’ll go
beyond theory to see Lean in action.
Interaction, Not Just Information
Not a lecture, it’s packed with exercises and group
challenges to get your team thinking about what
they can do differently in their own factory.
Fluere’s Lean Companion
Every attendee receives Fluere’s Lean Companion,
a practical, comprehensive guide you’ll use again
and again to apply your training in the workplace.
Topics Covered:
- Lean Fundamentals
- Key Lean Principles
- Value & The 8 Wastes
- Business Process Mapping
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
- The Plug Game (Round 1)
- Layout & 6S
- Functionally Arranged Layouts
- Product Vs. Process Matrix
- Product Focused Cells
- Spaghetti Diagrams
- Plantwide Plans and Objectives
- 6S (5S + Safety)
- Planning for 6S Implementation
- 6S Audit
- The Plug Game (Round 2)
- Single Piece Flow & Set-up Reduction
- Batch, Queue and Single Piece Flow Processes
- Set-up Time Introduction and History
- Set-up reduction 4 steps
- The Plug Game (Round 3)
- Product Flow & Bottleneck Management
- Overview & Takt Time
- Available Work Time & Cycle Time
- Load Charts
- Line Balancing Techniques
- Creating Continuous Flow
- The Plug Game (Round 4)
- ‘Pull’ & Kanban
- Pull Systems, Information and Part Flow
- Push Vs. Pull
- Kanban Systems & Simulations
- Kanban Calculations
- Replenishment Times & Lead Times
- Introduction to Process Capability & Quality
- The ‘F’-Test
- Process capability
- Right First Time & Roll Throughput Yield (RTY)
- Quality in your work area
By the end of the course attendees will be able to identify and undertake improvement projects that deliver outcomes such as; reduced waste, greater productivity, enhanced quality, increased customer satisfaction and lower operational costs.
This course is aligned to Cardiff University’s Lean Competency System (LCS) at level 1C.
The LCS was created by Cardiff University’s Lean Enterprise Research Centre and has set the standards for high quality Lean education for over a decade. It remains the leading academically recognised Lean qualification worldwide.
The LCS Framework has three categories and seven levels of competency covering the entire spectrum of Lean knowledge and applications; with each level focussing on a specific set of competencies.