Lean Fundamentals course – Onsite
- Live interactive workshop – a practical & fun way to learn
- Learn about 7 wastes, 5S workplace organization, A3 problem solving & more
- Complete a short case-study A3 process improvement
Downloadable Presentations & Data Files
Certified course
Practical course work
Course project
What is this course about?
Join us on this learning journey through Lean Tools and their Application. You will discover the meaning and uses of 5S workplace organization, identifying the 7 wastes and A3 problem solving. You will receive simple and effective tips for improving processes, increasing customer satisfaction and lowering costs. This practical onsite workshop takes place over one day and involves practical exercise, review of case studies and an interactive quiz at the end. The workshop is designed to be a practical and fun way to learn about lean. Following the onsite workshop, candidates have to option of working in a team to complete a simple case study A3 structured process improvement.
This course is offered on an in-company basis only i.e. all candidates are from the one organisation. The course content is customised to meet the organisation’s need, at no extra cost. All Lean Ireland tutors are certified Lean Six Sigma black belts with several years’ experience in facilitating workshops in a wide variety of sectors.
A Lean Practitioner, Level 1, certificate is awarded to those who have full attendance, complete the assignments and work in a team to complete and present a case study A3 project. The project material is provided by Lean Ireland. This level of competency reflects the Lean Practitioner, Level 1, in ISO SO 18404:2015 Quantitative methods in process improvement — Six Sigma — Competencies for key personnel and their organizations in relation to Six Sigma and Lean implementation.
Call us on +353 91 870708, we’re always happy to help and to discuss our courses in more detail.
What Will You Achieve?
Upon completion of this course, you will:
- Be able to describe the lean tool and its uses;
- Understand the advantages of using the tool;
- Understand how and where to use it, and
- Be able to use the tools to resolve a process problem in a structured A3 format.
You will also have your own soft copy record of the lean course presentation material for future use. On completion of the webinars, all participants receive a certificate of attendance.
On completion of the course, including presentation of a post-course case study project A3, you will receive a Lean Ireland level 1 lean practitioner certificate.
What Topics Will Be Covered?
- Introductions
- Learning to see
- Who is Tim Wood and why does he matter?
- The 7 wastes and continuous process improvement
- What’s your problem?
- Writing a problem statement
- Case study review for A3 problem solving project
- Quiz
- Data collection and graphing
- Photographs
- SIPOC charting
- Run chart
- Case study data review
- Target setting – focusing the team effort
- Quiz
- Quiz
- Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
- Fishbone analysis
- Why do human beings make mistakes?
- Simple error proofing techniques
- Quiz
- Introductions
- Why standardize?
- 5S: the five pillars of workplace organization
- Toyota 8 step problem solving – case study review
- Quiz
- Team based A3 presentation by team
- Review of 8 problem solving steps on the A3 document
- Q&A, discussion and award of certificate to the team
Total contact hours: 2 x 4-hour webinars = 8 hours total, plus optional 1 hour A3 certification presentation. The webinars are hosted on a secure learning management system. In advance of course commencement, participants are enrolled in the secure group.
The course will run with a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 12 candidates. Please contact us to enquire about suitable course dates for your team.
We will gladly customise our courses to suit our clients. We can add modules, exams and more case studies relevant to your industry all with the aim of giving you even better value and learning from our courses. This course can also be facilitated via onsite workshops. Call us on +353 91 870708, or send an email for details.
How Will You Be Supported?
On this onsite lean course you will
- be able to listen to and interact with the course tutor and other participants;
- be able to ask questions and complete quizzes to self-assess your understanding of the topic, and
- be able to download soft copy presentation files, with data sets and case studies, for your own future use
This course is an introduction to the wonderful world of lean team-based process improvement. The course is suitable for all personnel (e.g. directors, managers, supervisors, administrators, engineers, analysts, doctors, nurses, porters, planners, product builders, buyers, plasterers, tool makers) who will be taking part in process improvement in the organization.
Meet Your Tutors
Bernie Rushe
Welcome to our course page and I look forward to supporting you in learning new things, or how to do old things better. Over many years as a trainer and workshop facilitator, it has been a pleasure and privilege to enable teams in a variety of organizations to serve their customers better, and grow their businesses. My lean six sigma consulting engagements with clients and practical workshops have yielded benefits in the order of several €millions per year to client companies.
Prior to becoming a course facilitator, I was involved in the management of supply chain and business process improvement activities. After training as a lean six sigma black belt at Dell Computer Corporation, I left in 2001 to establish Lean Ireland. I am a science graduate, a certified ASQ lean six sigma black belt and hold a first class honours masters’ degree in supply chain management.
Please feel free to free to contact me about consulting and courses. Bernie@LeanIreland.ie
Richard Doyle
Working with Lean Ireland gives me the opportunity to share my engineering skills and knowledge with a wide variety of people. I enjoy explaining technical issues to non technical people. It will be a pleasure to enable you to learn new skills.
I have 20+ years engineering and operations management experience, with organisations such as Seagate and General Electric, in Europe and Asia. As a consultant, I add value in the areas of strategic planning, R&D roadmap development, transfer of work, site level capital management and capital strategy skills, equipment installation, commissioning and production release, and productivity improvement. I am an experienced and motivational project leader, mentor and trainer.
I am a Chemical Engineering graduate and a GE certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Master, and I am a GE certified Six Sigma trainer.
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Tailor This Course For Your Company
All of our courses are customised to suit our clients’ environments and participant learning needs. We will be delighted to discuss modification of course content and inclusion of relevant case studies with you.
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