5S and 7 Wastes Training Course

5S, also known as 5C or CANDO is concerned with the elimination of the ‘7 wastes’ by the introduction of world class workplace organisation and housekeeping.

Cellular Manufacturing Training Course

This one day training course uses practical ‘interactive’ business games to demonstrate the benefits a manufacturing organisation can achieve in efficiency, product quality, inventory and space utilisation by the adoption of cellular manufacturing techniques.

FMEA Training Course

This one day FMEA training course introduces the topics of design and process FMEA to your team by teaching the theory using practical examples from your own business. Ideal for design, quality and production engineers and manufacturing personnel of all levels.

How to implement Lean Manufacturing

A three day practical lean manufacturing training course suitable for senior executives/managers looking to implement lean manufacturing into their businesses.

Kaizen Training Course

A unique two day Kaizen training course which combines the mechanics of a number of continuous improvement tools with the neccesary change management skills to enable each delegate to implement sustainable improvement activities within an organisation. Suitable for Lean Facilitators, Six Sigma Green/Black Belts, Change Managers and Senior Executives with an manufacturing company.

Kanban Training Course

Do you want to implement Kanban? Our one day Kanban training course will teach you about the various Kanban systems and how to implement them. Kanban is a pull scheduling system which can be used as a shop floor control tool to ensure you only manufacture what is pulled by each customer. Ideally suited to manufacturing, operations and material professionals of all levels.

Lean Leadership Training Course

A two-day thought-provoking lean leadership training course suitable for senior executives/managers focussed on sustainable lean transformation of their business.

Lean Manufacturing Training Course

A two day practical lean manufacturing training course suitable for manufacturing staff of all levels. The content of this training course has been developed following the successful implementation of the lean techniques, concepts and strategies used in this course by manufacturing companies throughout the UK, with the help of our course tutors.

Lean Office Training Course

Are you looking for a lean office training course? Can lean really be applied to an office environment? The answer is most definitely YES. Our one day lean office training course is designed for personnel in sales, finance, account management, purchasing, service and other admin functions.

The course is packed full of practical examples of how to apply lean tools such as 5S, 8 Wastes and Value Stream Mapping to an office environment. We teach you 'how to see' waste, packa

Lean Supply Chain Management

This one day training course has been designed for those people who have practical experience of operating in a traditional supply chain role but who are keen to embrace the benefits lean supply chain management (LSCM) can bring to a company's financial ratios and value streams.

Poka Yoke Training Course

How can we make errors, defects and mistakes either so 'visible' that we can detect them at source or even better eliminate them altogether? The answer is by applying Poka Yoke techniques.

Poka Yoke is the lean manufacturing tool which forms the basis of the Zero Quality Control (ZQC) system for avoiding and eliminating mistakes, defects and errors. The term Poka Yoke is derived from the Japanese words ‘Poka’ meaning inadvertent mistake and ‘yokeru’ – meaning to avoid.

Practical Problem Solving Skills

This one day practical course utilises case studies to demonstrate how the use of problem solving techniques can be used to bring about long term solutions to every day problems found in administrative, manufacturing, service and other business areas.

SMED Training Course

Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) is a systematic approach to reducing machine set- up and change over times. Originally devised by Shigeo Shingo of Toyota Motor Company in the early 1950’s, this lean technique can dramatically shorten set-up time from hours to minutes.

Set-Up time is the elapsed time from completion of the last part of the previous job until the first part of the next job is made at normal efficiency.

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is the lean tool concerned with maximising the efficiency of Production Machinery. TPM utilises a team approach to remove the losses from machine areas by the introduction of autonomous maintenance programmes.

This one day course utilises practical examples to demonstrate the improvements the successful implementation of a TPM programme can make to a business.

This course is ideally suited to personnel from Production, Maintenance, Engineerin

Value Stream Mapping Training Course

Do you need some training in Value Stream Mapping? Our one day value stream mapping training course is suitable for demonstrating the improvements that can be made to both office and factory processes. This one day value stream mapping training course is ideally suited to senior executives and managers from all disciplines.

What is Value Stream Mapping? Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a diagnostic tool used to differentiate those company wide processes that add value and create wealth fr