Lean TrainingOriel Incorporated Lean training can help your organization learn, adopt, and fully employ Lean principles, approaches, and tools so that you can create Lean processes and become more streamlined.

Our training covers such Lean topics as:

  • Lean cost model and lean enterprise model
  • Lean toolbox
  • Value stream mapping
  • Just-in-time systems
  • Kanban and pull production
  • Poka Yoke
  • Kaizen approach, process, and tools

On-site Lean Training is a cost-effective and confidential way to train a group of your employees how to run a Lean enterprise. Our instructors have taught Lean principles and approaches in numerous types of organizations and possess expertise in a wide variety of fields. We will work with you to outline a course of training that best serves your organization. We can also customize the training to focus on your organization's particular needs.

Oriel's roster of Lean Training Courses includes:

 

 

Introduction to Error Risk Reduction (ERRQ)
(3 days)

Demonstrate your commitment to operational excellence by managing a major challenge to world-class performance: human error. Understanding how to identify root causes of human error and learning ways to avoid them will help you to produce better products and services for your customers.

This course will teach you how to gauge your organization's vulnerability to error and the effectiveness of current practices to deal with it, systematically identifiy commonplace adverse influences that increase risk of error and/or make its effects more serious, and understand how low-cost changes and fine-tuning can improve reliability. Mastering these processes will help to reduce human error in your organization and give you the tools to increase your position in the marketplace.


Planning and Leading Lean Kaizen Events (VKLQ)
(2 days)

The goal of Lean is to make value flow faster by producing and delivering the highest quality products and services at the lowest possible cost. In this course, you will master two fundamental Lean concepts that will help your organization move toward this goal: value stream mapping and Lean targeted (kaizen) events. First, you will find out how to develop and analyze value stream maps, so that you'll be able to identifiy and eliminate waste and its drivers in your organization. Next, you will learn how to recognize opportunities in your organization to run Lean targeted (kaizen) events using the DMAIC framework.
 

Leading Kaizen Events (KAIQ)
(1 day)

A kaizen event, or kaizen blitz, is a focused, short-term project used to improve a particular process. The event draws together a team of people for a brief, sustained period in order to solve a specific problem. In this course you'll learn how a kaizen event can be used to improve processes in your organization. This course covers the fundamentals of leading a kaizen event, including what is required to plan and run the event, how to apply systematic kaizen methodology, and the process of following up after the event.
 

Understanding Lean Enterprise Tools (LNIQ)
(2 days)

Lean enterprises develop the highest quality products and services at the lowest possible cost. This course will teach you how to create a Lean enterprise in your organization. Based on standardized managment deployment systems and starting with the Lean model, you will work through kaizen (elimination of waste through continuous improvement), standardized work, autonomation (jidohka), just-in-time methodologies, heijunka (production leveling and control), and Poka Yoke (error proofing).

This set of approaches, methods, and tools is based on the world's most efficient manufacturing technology—the Toyota Production System—and will help your organization to eliminate waste in its processes. The topics covered in this course can be applied to processes in any kind of organization, including service-oriented, government, and nonprofit groups.

Lean Certification (LNCQ)
(5 Days)

In today's competitive environment, organizations are constantly striving to increase market share and reduce costs. Make sure you are well positioned to help your organization meet its business and financial goals by earning your Lean certification. Oriel's Lean certification course will provide you with the tools you need to accomplish this.

To achieve lean certification, you must fulfill the course attendance requirements, pass the certification exam, and successfully complete a Lean improvement project or kaizen event. Your project/event must show evidence of Lean solutions implementation and improved (Leaner) performance. The skills you hone from these achievements will make you a valuable asset to help your organization optimize efficiency in its processes.

Lean Executive Overview
(1/2 day)

In order for an organization to deploy Lean, executives must make the strategic decision to do so and fully commit whatever is necessary to achieve the desired results. The executive team sets the direction for the overall Lean deployment and puts into place the structure required to foster cultural change. In this course you will learn what you, as an executive, can do to optimize the success of your organization's Lean deployment.

Lean Champion Workshop
(3 day)

A Lean deployment will succeed only if an organization's leaders believe that it is in the company's and their own best interests to make sure that it does. One way that leaders demonstrate their commitment to Lean is to designate Lean champions, who are responsible for translating the strategic direction and high-level Lean deployment plan into action. In this course, you will learn the tools and methodology necessary to serve as a Lean champion and help steer your organization's Lean deployment to fulfillment and success.

Lean Teams for Success
(1-2 day)

Employees implementing Lean in their organization need more than just the technical skills to succeed—teamwork and facilitation skills are critical components of any Lean deployment. In this course, those skills necessary to help Lean teams work together effectively are addressed and explained.

Lean Coaches
(25+ days)

Lean is a specialized discipline. While the basics are relatively easy to pick up and use, people will benefit by having access to experts. Lean coaches are internal experts who can help with training, facilitation, and coordination. Coaches can help ensure Lean projects are aligned to corporate goals and that the Lean approaches are used in a standard manner. This group of internal experts can be small, but is a key element in helping to sustain focus and priorities.

The Lean Coaches curriculum builds the internal expertise necessary to conduct Lean workshops and successfully coach staff.

Lean Coaches Certification

In some organizations, standardization through certification is an important element in Lean deployment.

Internal experts, or Lean Coaches, can be certified by completing the Lean Coaches curriculum, passing an exam, and successfully completing a project requirement.
 

Lean Overview 
(2 days)

Successful Lean deployments engage staff members at different levels in different ways. In order for an organization to deploy Lean, those staff members affected by it need a working knowledge of Lean and enough detail to allow them to begin implementing it in limited ways under the guidance of a Lean expert.

Oriel's Lean Overview prepares staff members to participate in a Lean deployment by giving them hands-on experience in implementing Lean and enough information to begin applying select Lean approaches in their everyday work.
 

Platforms and Toolkits

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Lean Manufacturing Training