Overview:
This one day seminar is a lean implementation event that involves a series of activities that follow a structured ten-step process enabling a team to achieve rapid, action-oriented improvements identified during a Value Stream Mapping event. The kaizen event addresses individual problem areas identified by process mapping, using the industry-standard Plan-Do-Check-Act problem-solving model.
What You Will Learn:
- Create a value stream map of an existing process
- Identify opportunities for improvement
- Apply those improvements
- Validate the improvements
Course Content
- Introduction and getting started
- Define Kaizen
- Identify a specific value stream problem
- Clearly develop a problem statement
- Analyze the problem
- Observe the affected area and / or process
- Gather critical data, information and observations
- Team exercise to identify and select possible solutions
- Review problem, possible solutions
- Team select best solution
- Team develop implementation plan
- Complete implementation plan
- Implement
- Complete Implementation
- Document changes