Lean Enterprise school training courses in Charlotte, NC (public, in-house or online)

A professional completing this course will understand:

•Lean manufacturing history and concept
•Lean business/administration application/lean business paradigm
•Shaping organizational culture/leading change/the critical mass of change
•Pull dynamics of business administration/Stabilization and Optimization
•Shift from departmental to flow/sub-optimization awareness
•Cellular processing concepts 5-S philosophy and practical application
•Visual controls; Kanban
•Six Sig...

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You can use a Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement program to generate successful results--in any size company, business unit or division. You may realize the importance of using such a disciplined and structured improvement methodology like Lean Six Sigma, but may not know quite how to get started.

This eight-hour course prepares leaders like you to implement a Lean Six Sigma improvement plan. You’ll start by getting an understanding of how Lean Six Sigma positively impacts organiz...

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This course provides an overview of lean manufacturing practices within a company and its supply chain. It addresses fundamental practices including flowcharting of business processes, collection and analysis of process performance data and the removal of those activities that are determined to be wasteful or non-essential.
Topics and Objectives
Introduction to Lean Enterprise
Differentiate among various lean manufacturing approaches.
Compare and contrast various lean initiatives. ...

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This interactive workshop demonstrates how to apply value-stream mapping, a fundamental and critical tool, to address what many companies find difficult to do: making a fundamental change in business processes such as administrative, professional, and transactional activities. You will see how the key elements of lean thinking and value-stream mapping apply to such activities by identifying key processes to tackle, drawing an accurate current-state map of each process, applying lean principles t...

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Value-stream maps are the blueprints for lean transformations. This workshop shows you how to make and apply this fundamental and critical tool, based on the Lean Enterprise Institute’s groundbreaking value-stream mapping workbook, Learning to See, which has introduced the mapping tool to thousands of people around the world.

The value-stream map is a paper-and-pencil representation of every process in the material and information flow of a product or product family, along with key d...

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