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| Essential Lean Learning – Online training and Exam* | Self-paced online learning | Modules include: Introduction to lean; Waste elimination; Just-in-time principles of takt, flow and pull systems; Quality and productivity improvements through Jidoka; Production Smoothing, Standard Work, Standard Operations; 5S and the visual workplace; Value Chain Mapping, LeanSigma Implementation; and Roles in a lean deployment. Candidates must pass a final exam upon completion off all modules. |  |
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| Lean Tool Kit Workshop* | 5 days | Learn how lean tools are applied to transform your organization to deliver improved operational results. Through the use of a factory simulation students will be able to apply what they have learned. | |
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| Kaizen Breakthrough Experience | 5 days | Hands-on participation on a kaizen team at a TBM client site. Participants are divided into teams that are led by a TBM Lean Master. Team members are assigned roles; the event is planned, executed and evaluated. | |
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| Kaizen Instructor Training | 4 days | Train-the-trainer workshop designed to teach participants how to deliver TBM’s one-day lean training, an essential component of facilitating kaizen events. Participants hone public speaking skills and learn how to address the tough questions from individuals that will participate in or be impacted by a Kaizen event. | |
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| Creating a Continuous Improvement Office | 4 days | Learn the strategies, tools and skills required to set up and administer an effective continuous improvement office. Topics include: how to communicate and promote a lean program, write charter statements, align operational metrics with financial objectives, assess your lean progression, form and manage a lean steering committee and share best practices across the organization, (We recommend that Program Leader candidates complete this course before taking Kaizen Instructor Training) | |
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| Sustaining Lean Results | 5 days | Participants learn to audit, report and sustain kaizen results. Concepts covered include: personality assessment and how to work with different types of people, cultural change and how to deal with resistance, performance measurement, layered audits and problem solving tools. | |
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| Mentor, Homework, Quizzes, Kaizen Event report-out and Final Exam | On-going | Each participant is assigned a TBM Lean Mentor to guide them through the certification process. Homework, quizzes, a kaizen report-out and a final exam are all part of the certification program. | |
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* Candidates MUST complete the online training and exam and Lean Tool Kit before progressing to other modules of Lean Certification.