Lean Training & Implementation
Lean Training
Interested in Lean Training? UAH-ATN offers a wide-range of lean training opportunities – both as open enrollment classes where companies can send a few representatives to the training – and as customized training courses at your business site scheduled to accommodate your company’s needs. A complete listing of our lean training is available below.
Lean Instruction by Effective Trainers
Our experienced and nationally renowned UAH-ATN staff provides instruction for all our lean training. Our open enrollment classes are posted on the UAH ATN training calendar or join our training newsletter to get regular updates. To schedule a training course for your company, please contact us or call 256.824.LEAN (5326).
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–Getting Started With the Lean Process
Not sure where to start to include lean into your business operation? UAH-ATN staff are available for personalized company assessments. After visiting your location, our team will help you determine the most effective course for the implementation of your continuous improvement program. Please contact us or call 256.824.LEAN (5326), so we may answer your questions and provide you with information to get you started today.
Lean Training Courses
Lean Enterprise Certification Series (40 hours)
(Courses with an asterisk are included in this series)
A five-day course designed to introduce and implement lean concepts to your plant.
Lean Enterprise Value Supply Chain Simulation (4 days)
Hands-on simulations provide lean improvement at all levels of the organizations supply chain.
*Principles of Lean Enterprise/Lean 101 (8 hours)
Through live simulations, take the first step in learning to make improvements on lead time, on-time delivery, quality and bottom-line profit.
Principles of a Lean Office (8 hours)
Understand the benefits of a Lean office vs. a traditional office environment.
*Value Stream Mapping Training (4 hours)
We’ll help you map a product’s production path (material and information flow) from “door to door” to help you visualize the areas that most need lean.
*5 S of Workplace Organization (4 hours)
Sort, set-in-order, shine, standardize and sustain to make information concerning quality, productivity, schedule and safety visually accessible at any moment.
*Quick Changeover/Setup Reduction (4 hours)
Learn to decrease changeover time to improve machine uptime and product quality, reduce work-in-process and lead times and allow for small batch sizes.
*Cellular/Flow Manufacturing (4 hours)
Link and balance operations to reduce lead times, minimize work in process, optimize floor space and improve productivity.
*Pull/Kanban (4 hours)
Control shop floor inventory by using visual signals when parts need to be replaced.
*Total Productive Maintenance (4 hours)
Learn how to proactively maintain machines and equipment at peak efficiency and availability.
Kaizen Facilitator Training (8 hours)
The Kaizen Facilitator Training course is designed to teach a standard kaizen process that can be used for implementing lean tools, such as quick changeover, 5 S, cellular/layout and TPM.
Lean Concepts with Tube Factory Simulation (4 hours)
Lecture material provides an overview of the background of lean, the eight deadly wastes of manufacturing and the lean tools used to eliminate those wastes.
*Courses with an asterisk are included the Lean Enterprise Certification series.
Lean Implementation
Does your company have employees who have attended Lean training, but need assistance to begin the process of lean implementation or continue lean implementation within your company? UAH - ATN offers on-site assistance with kaizen events and value map streaming site events. Contact us or call 256.824.LEAN (5326) to schedule.
Kaizen Event (3-5 days)
Aggressive goals are set early in the process and solutions are not simply put on paper but implemented by the team. Team members are empowered to offer and implement ideas, reinforcing the notion they are having an immediate impact. Kaizen events are a proven way to implement Lean tools and the greatest benefit is the nearly instantaneous recognition of improvement.
Value Stream Mapping Site Event (2 days)
This event helps companies focus on when and where they should apply Lean concepts to get the most impact. The result is an implementation plan that clearly prioritizes when and where to focus improvements and how each improvement will help achieve the future state. After the event, you will have a current-state map, future-state map and an implementation plan of your own value stream.
