Lean Training

Process Improvement Steps

Online lean training to get fast, dramatic, and simultaneous...
   a) Reduction of costs and lead times
   b) Improvements in quality and morale

tools

Lean Tools
for each of the Process Improvement Steps

Most organizations get their first exposure to lean through a single process improvement tool that looks like it might help solve some pressing problem of the moment.

If the tool (used in isolation) doesn't work as magically as expected,

then a year later you might hear someone from that organization say,
"Oh, yeah, we tried lean, and it didn't work here."

If they had tried a different tool,

then maybe they could have gotten a better start to their lean journey.
That's why it's a good idea to choose your tool(s) wisely.

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LeanPrinciples

Lean Principles

to identify, reduce, & eliminate waste

Lean Objectives — What is "ideal"?

Muda: Learning to see the 7 Deadly Types of Waste

Lean Flow — the single most important lean objective

Lean Principles don't change

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of lean methods and tools that have been developed and popularized to attempt to accomplish lean objectives in diverse situations commonly encountered along your lean journey, but the Lean Principles themselves don't change.

Your ultimate goal is for every person in your organization to be so familiar with popular lean systems and tools that they are able to apply the underlying lean principles in new and creative ways that are ideal for YOUR unique and ever-changing challenges.

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LeanSystems

Lean Systems

The essential link between lean tools and lean principles

Lean systems are the essential links between:

1) Lean Tools and Methods

that can be too specific, too detailed, and too confusing for people that don't yet understand what the tool/method is trying to accomplish in relation to the bigger picture

2) Lean Principles, Objectives, and Ideals

that can be too vague, too distant, and too unattainable

Lean Systems are critical to the success of your lean journey

Critical enough to deserve their own training web page.

So the Lean Systems training that used to be in this section of this Lean Training home page now has its own training page...

Lean Systems

When you click this link, it will open a new window,
so that you can easily come back here

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LeanMethods

Process Improvement Steps

to Reduce or Eliminate Waste

 

The road to lean maturity goes something like this...

1. Study how others have solved problems

   similar to the ones you are facing now

2. Select the most promising tools and methods

   and then use the PDCA scientific method to experiment with applying them to your situation

3. If you can't find a perfect fit with existing tools and methods

   then personalize them

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Reading

Suggested Reading for

Lean Training

Throughout this website, you will find many training videos, and many links to suggested readings and resources for additional learning.

Links to videos and suggested readings for some of the most popular topics:

• Site Map — Lean Training and Lean Videos
• Lean Management — Readings
• Lean Leadership — Readings
• 5S — Readings — Videos
• Value Stream — Readings — Videos
• Standard Work — Readings — Videos
• Kaizen — Readings — Videos
• Hoshin Kanri — Readings
• DMAIC — Readings — Videos

Books — Lean Overview

• Creating a Lean Culture, by David Mann
• Lean Thainking, by James Womack and Daniel Jones
• Toyota Kata, by Mike Rother
• The Lean Toolbox, by John Bicheno