Continuous Improvement Yellow Belt

Engineering the Next Generation

A three day open or bespoke course designed to enhance the continuous improvement capabilities of your business.

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EUROPEAN UNIONInvesting in Your FutureEuropean RegionalDevelopment Fund 2007-13

3 DAYCOURSEOr Bespoke

Continuous ImprovementYellow Belt

Delegates will gain the core skills, the practical skills,the practical tools and techniques to make real andlong lasting improvements.

A culturally driven approach with the focus on Lean methods to ensure staff engagement is at the heart of delivering immediate results. Implementingsystematic change and recognising value and non-value activities will drive improvements in the environment in which you and your teams operate.

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Who Should AttendDirectors, senior managers, supervisors, functional leaders and front line employees who stand out for their drive and ability to solve process related problems using a practical lean techniques to make deliver focused improvements to the business.

This is the foundation level within thedevelopment of a continuous improvementprogram and will develop the skills ofyour team.

Course AimsThis three day, class-based, course has been developed to provide practitioners with practical tools and techniques to make immediate changes to the issues that impact them directly.

The goals for this training are to:

1. Understand the benefi ts of continuous process fl ow and how to achieve it.

2. Recognise the ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ skills required to make long-term benefi ts.

3. Identify waste and non-value steps in all forms.

4. Identify practical tools that the practitioners can use immediately to make fast changes to their work environment.

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Overview

• Values and foundations of Lean

• Learning to identify waste and reduce

• Lean tools and techniques to be applied for immediate results

• Culture and change management

• Practical demonstration of methodology in action

Values and foundation of Lean

• History and integration

• Philosophy, framework and practical approach

• Why? The need for change

Leaning to see waste and how work works

• Sources of Lean projects

• Key wastes and analysis of work

• Need for leadership and lean thinking

• Continuous process fl ow and key defi nitions

• Practical ways to implement

• VOC and VOP

• Time management and project planning/tracking

Lean tools and techniquesto be applied immediately

• Project charter

• Histogram and Pareto’s law - PGA

• Dashboard reporting – KPI’s

• Critical lean defi nitions

• Process mapping

• GEMBA

• Cell alignment

• Error proofi ng

• 6S

• 5 whys

• Heijunka – production levelling

• Kaizen philosophy

• Kanban

• Spaghetti diagram

• Identify product families

• Red tagging

• Set up reduction

• FMEA

• Practical demonstration of how they interconnect within a DMAIC methodology

Learning outcomes

• How to see issues - using fact as a basis to make sustained improvement

• Range of tools that can be applied in a systematic way for fast track benefi ts to the business

• Recognition that improvement can only be sustained by the development and involvement of cross functional teams

• Practical demonstration of how to apply the tools and techniques by you and your teams

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Engineering the Next Generation

• Executive Introduction to Continuous Improvement

• Green Belt

• Value Stream Mapping

• Measurement System Evaluation (MSE)

• Programme Champion/Sponsor

• Kaizen Facilitators

• Finance for Non-Finance Staff

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