Kaizen

**Course Summary: **

Applying rapid improvement processes to a currently-operating manufacturing workplace can often seem like an insurmountable challenge for employees and leaders alike. To help workers overcome these obstacles, this five-day implementation event thoroughly immerses participants in a complete rapid improvement project, providing them with a corporate goal to achieve in less than a week’s time.

Within tight-knit teams, participants will gain a thorough introduction to the basics of Lean Enterprise thinking, the Kaizen improvement methodology, and a vast array of assorted development strategies, and will utilize their knowledge by responding to a number of operational issues within their organization. This intensive rapid improvement session is the ideal way to stoke your workforce’s creativity, flexibility, motivation, and problem-solving skills!

Discussed Topics:

• Understanding the Lean Enterprise and Kaizen processes.
• Guided facilitation through workplace improvement processes.
• Analyzing, discussing, and implementing a culture of continuous improvement in a manufacturing organization.
• The importance of acknowledging contributions to continuous improvement processes and solution application.
• Evaluating process improvements by examining quantifiable returns-on-investment.

Course Outline:

• Introduction to Lean Enterprise and Kaizen methodologies.
• Basic Lean Enterprise and Kaizen training.
• Observation and documentation of operational issues within participants’ workplaces.
• Issue prioritization and analysis.
• Solution-brainstorming sessions.
• Implementation of solutions into the existing processes of participants’ organizations.
• Final evaluations and course conclusion.

DURATION: Five (5) Day-Long Sessions

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: In-Person Classroom and Participant Worksites

SCHEDULE: Please contact Amy Edwards, EMC's Training Manager, at 1-866-323-4362 for upcoming course dates and times.

Training is available in English.