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Training built around your real cases

Each module mixes input, exercises on the shop floor and practice on one of your own flows. Participants leave with a deliverable they can use the next day.

The Lean Café set up in the entrance hall: counter, cups and a queue line taped on the floor.
And to bring Lean to life: Serious GamesThe Beer Game, The Lean Café set up in your hall, a crisis game for leadership teams, the DISC-Joker.Discover the Serious Games

On your cases

In-company, exercises use your products, files or flows.

Close to the floor

Part of every day is spent in the workshop, the office or the warehouse.

Assessed

An entry test, an exit test and a deliverable produced by each participant.

By a teacher

Manuel Gourmand also teaches at business and engineering schools.

Courses

Every course is available in-company, and most also as open sessions or remotely.

Plant

4 courses

2 daysIn-companyOpen session

Lean Manufacturing fundamentals

Who it is for : Team leaders, process engineers, production managers

Objectives

  • Spot the seven wastes on the shop floor
  • Link flow, inventory and customer lead time
  • Run a first improvement workshop
2 daysIn-companyOpen session

VSM: map and redesign a value stream

Who it is for : Value stream managers, continuous improvement engineers

Objectives

  • Draw a current-state VSM on a real case
  • Calculate lead time and takt time
  • Build a future state and its action plan
2 daysIn-company

SMED and TPM: reliable, quick-to-change equipment

Who it is for : Setters, maintenance teams, shop managers

Objectives

  • Film and analyse a changeover
  • Separate internal and external operations
  • Measure and improve OEE
1 dayIn-companyOpen sessionRemote

Problem solving: QRQC, A3 and 8D

Who it is for : Front-line managers, quality, engineering

Objectives

  • State a problem factually
  • Get to root causes
  • Track the effectiveness of actions

Supply chain

3 courses

2 daysIn-companyOpen session

Pull flow, kanban and supermarkets

Who it is for : Logistics staff, planners, buyers

Objectives

  • Size a kanban loop
  • Set up a supermarket
  • Level production with heijunka
2 daysIn-companyOpen sessionRemote

Supply Chain Risk Management

Who it is for : Buyers, supply chain managers, operations directors

Objectives

  • Map the supply network
  • Assess supplier and item criticality
  • Build a mitigation plan
1 dayIn-companyRemote

S&OP: aligning sales, production and purchasing

Who it is for : Sales, operations and supply chain leaders

Objectives

  • Structure the monthly S&OP cycle
  • Balance demand and capacity
  • Steer with a few shared KPIs

Office

2 courses

2 daysIn-companyOpen sessionRemote

Lean Office: streamlining office processes

Who it is for : Back-office managers, support functions, project leads

Objectives

  • Make invisible inventory visible: files, e-mails, requests
  • Measure the real lead time of a process
  • Remove needless approval loops
1 dayIn-companyRemote

Visual management and team routines

Who it is for : Team managers, in production and services alike

Objectives

  • Design a useful team board
  • Run a 15-minute daily huddle
  • Escalate and solve problems

Three formats

In-companyOpen sessionRemote
VenueAt your premisesPartner venueVirtual classroom
Group6 to 12 people from your company4 to 10 people from several companies4 to 10 people
ContentTailored to your flows and dataStandard syllabus, varied casesShort 3-hour modules
PriceFixed fee per session, on quotationPrice per participant, on requestPrice per participant, on request

Let's build your training path

A thirty-minute call to define the audience, the objectives and the best-suited format.