| Overview
Experience the dramatic bottom-line improvement and new manufacturing and business process efficiencies you can quickly achieve and sustain – as a member of a Kaizen team applying Lean tools at a host company.
What You Will Experience
- Speed
- Action and Creativity
- Improvement Potential of Kaizen
- Low Cost Improvements
- Hands-On Learning
- The Power of the Team
- Long Term Impact
Key Learning
- Experience the key concepts, tools and techniques used during a kaizen week
- Participate on one of three dedicated kaizen teams and drive immediate improvement
- All events include at least two shop floor / operations teams and at least one business process kaizen event team
- Learn to see waste and identify and eliminate non-value-added activities
- Achieve typical kaizen event results:
- Shop Floor / Operations: Inventory reductions of 90%+, productivity increases of 25-50%, product lead times reduced from weeks to hours, elimination of safety hazards, improved 5S scores
- Business Process: Backlog reductions of 90%+, cycle-times reduced from weeks to days, productivity increases 25-50%, customers service levels increased to 99%+
- Get excited about Kaizen and leave energized to apply what you’ve learned
Ideal Attendees
- Chief Executive Officers/Presidents, Chief Operating Officers, Vice Presidents, Directors
- General Managers, Department Managers, Plant Managers
- Operations and continuous improvement staff
- Team members from various departments including: Kaizen Promotion Office, Quality, Materials, Human Resources, Engineering
- Administrative staff from various departments including: Accounting, Marketing, Sales, Customer Service
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“Little did we know about Lean and Kaizen prior to our participation in this workshop. On the way home, we were totally fired up and could not wait to get back to start implementing what we had seen, done and learned during that week.”
Michael Gerster,
Executive Vice President,
Wika Instruments
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