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Lean Manufacturing
APPLICATIONS CLOSED. If you missed out contact WHK Busines Growth today on info@whkbusinessgrowth.com
Apply now for entry into this programme. Only 12 - 14 maufacturers will be selected to particapte and learn how to implement Lean thinking into their business' operations.
Applications close 27 April 2010
Do these issues sound familiar?
- I spend all my time at work fighting fires!
- Staff just won’t treat this business as their own!
- We need to increase our output!
- We struggle with cash flow month to month!
- We have a whole bunch of material left over & why?
- We are so short of space!
- Our office systems are not working and we are plagued by constant breakdowns!
- Our competitors always seem to have the jump on us!
- We are spending 40% of our available time making perfectly good waste!
- Our suppliers are constantly letting us down?
- Our customers don’t seem to get what our product does!
Attending this programme will help you address these issues and implement solutions. The programme will give you insight into some of the fundamental principles behind lean thinking, as well as access to valuable tools and practical know-how.
Participants will take away simple strategies which can be deployed immediately to kick-start a variety of quick win projects within their businesses.
The Programme
Made up of four workshops and one-on-one follow up coaching sessions, the programme will cover the following key business development areas:
Day 1: Introduction to Lean and Value Analysis - 4 May, 9am - 4:30pm
- Lean Thinking
- The Lean concept and it's history
- Transform a business from Underperforming to Performing
- Implementing the 5 S'
- First steps toward implementing a robust continuous improvement process
- Red Tagging
- Value Analysis
Lean is a systematic approach toward continuous business improvement through the identification and elimination of all forms of waste, improving process flow and efficiency while delivering exactly what the customer wants when they want it. Lean is also about doing more (quality, speed and getting the process right the first time) & with less (time, inventory, space and money) - Identify flow and waste within an underperforming business
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
Day 2: Reduction Analysis and Measurement - 12 May, 9am - 4:30pm
- Reduction Analysis
Setup reduction builds on the principles of the Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) system, developed by Shigeo Shingo, to dramatically reduce or eliminate changeover times within a process - Reduce work in progress
- Utilise your staff more effectively
- Reduce lead time from suppliers or delivery time to customers
- The Human Changeover
- Process Mapping
- Spaghetti Mapping
- SME
- Measurement
At the very core of Lean is the customer. Understanding their exact product or service needs is paramount to success. - Ensure your measures matter and data collection is accurate
- Identify how well you are currently doing
- Create opportunities for continuous improvement through reviewed goals, targets and measures
- How to communicate results using Visual Workplace
- Visual controls like Balanced Scorecard
Standard methods for collecting and presenting data
KPI development
Day 3: Probletunities and Making Lean Stick - 19 May, 9am - 4:30pm
- Probletunities
Problem solving is one of the most powerful but least used techniques. Participants will learn how to turn problems into opportunities using Lean problem solving tools and techniques - Turn problems into opportunities!
- Learn and complete a formal brainstorm
- A fishbone (cause and effect) analysis
- Why why analysis
- Learn how to construct and implement a PDCA (Plan Do Check Act) project management tool
- Apply one tool to an existing internal problem
- People - Making Lean Stick
How do you get people on board with Lean? Very few of the above concepts and tools are ever successfully implemented without staff that are engaged and willing to participate. Participants will learn how to connect all of the tools above by understanding some fundamental people and standardisation principles. - How to get your staff on board with Lean
- Connect the Lean tools by understanding fundamental people and standardisation principles
- Strategy and goal development
- Change management
- Leadership
- Communication
- Visual workplace
- Skills and training
- Standard operating procedures
Day 4: Leading Lean - 25 May, 9am - 12:30pm
- Developing a Lean Culture
- Processes for self-awareness and personal growth that will enable you to develop the leadership style to develop a Lean culture
- Tools for developing teamwork based on effective interpersonal relationships and management by consensus
- What you can do to build a culture supports that Lean implementation and prevents it dying in the trenches
"Glenn has given us the concepts and tools to enable Lean Manufacturing principles to be applied into our jobbing and small-run batch manufacturing operation. He has assisted us in selling these concepts to the leadership team, and with the practical implementation. I would thoroughly recommend Glenn's programme to any manufacturing business."
- Mark Lovegrove, GENERAL MANAGER, Allied Industrial Engineering
Glenn Manahi - Go Solutions
A passionate educator, Glenn has been involved in developing people since the early 1990’s.
Now an independent, Glenn contracts his services and passion for value addition through learning and people improvement. During his programmes and coaching he aims to make solutions informative, challenging, engaging but especially...fun for all.
Glenn specialises in development, facilitation and coaching of:
- Continuous Improvement methodology
- Leadership and Management development
- Visual Media Trainer – Electronic learning for inductions, health and safety, standard operating procedures etc
- Creative Thinking and Innovation – Programme to develop new and creative business and product ideas
- Strategic planning, team building events, project management, skills and training frameworks and processes
- Development and delivery of National certificate programmes
John Laurent - WHK Business Growth
John has ten years experience in the field of organisational development, culture change and leadership coaching. This work includes working with individuals and teams to facilitate a measured improvement in behaviour and effectiveness. John has coached senior executives in industry as well as partners of national law firms. Companies John has worked with include Cryovac Sealed Air NZ Ltd, Hansells, Nutra Life Health & Fitness Ltd and James Hardie Ltd. He has worked as a consultant to ABB on culture change resulting in productivity gains valued at over $200 million.
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Apply for this programme
Those applying will be assessed for eligibility and / or interviewed by telephone. Businesses interested in applying for the programme should contact John Laurent on 09 968 8546, or email John.Laurent@whk.co.nz for an application form.
Applications close 27 April 2010
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