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KCTS Resource Issue 10 – October 2010

Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Written By: Daniela Silvani

 

Don’t forget that the October Issue of the KCTS Resource has been released and is available to read via the Downloads section of the KCTS Website: In this issue we take a look at Value Stream Mapping how best to use it in your workplace, a foundation stone to any Lean Improvement Programme.

There is also the regular features, including; a couple of Lean/TPM puzzles to test your mind; a Case Study on using Focus Improvement for our client in their Zevenaar factory, The Netherlands; and we’ll be catching up with KCTS consultant, Stephen Ellis, and finding out what he has been up too over the last 6 months.

Also our free downloads this month include the ‘Safety Hazards and Hazardous Substances’ and ‘Safety Authority and Escalation’ knowledge sheets. Plus you will be able to download the PDF of this month’s KCTS Resource, all for Free!

Value Stream Mapping

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Details on our 3 day training event for Value Stream Mapping

Features:
•    Proven methodology.
•    Focus on knowledge transfer from trainer to site.
•    Material delivered by experienced trainers.
•    Development of Current and Future State map.
•    Development of Action Plan.
•    Completion of ‘Waste Walk’.
•    Facilitation of a company Value Stream Map.
•    Training based on a real-live site project.
•    Bespoke templates and worksheets supplied to use in your own future projects.
•    Practical exercises to enable rapid learning in real environments.
•    Can be delivered in modular format to suite availability.

Benefits:
•    Completion of your very own  Value Stream Map.
•    Delegates learn to talk the Language of ‘Lean’.
•    Show your manufacturing facility in a way not seen before.
•    Map out processes to identify and reduce bottle necks.
•    Indentify the areas of operational waste within your organisation.
•    See opportunities for improvement.
-    Reduce costs
-    Optimise capacity
-    Improve customer satisfaction
•    Prioritise improvement activities through the identification of your Value Stream.

Overview:
•    Introduction to ‘Lean’ Methodology
•    Benefits of adopting ‘Lean’ principles
•    Concept of Value Added / Non-Value Added
•    7 Deadly Wastes
•    Project selection (product/process)
•    Current State Mapping
•    Future State Mapping
•    Takt time and improvement tools
•    Implementation Planning

Designed to teach you how to devise and sustain a Value Stream Mapping (VSM) project, the purpose of which is to develop your company’s Current and Future State maps for a product line. From this we will assist you with the creation of your Implementation Plan. The Implementation Plan will identify immediate cost savings that can be made through the application of Value Stream Mapping.

Delegates who have little or no prior knowledge of the subject matter are welcome to attend this training. Through a mixture of simulation and practical project work the course will give employees the necessary tools and techniques to be able to go on and complete their own VSM project.

Due to the strategic nature of this event we recommend that support is granted from site management in order to drive the indentified improvement projects forward. This would come from having an overall responsibility for a factory or workplace improvement programme, or be in an operational management position within a manufacturing or process environment.

Designed to teach you how to devise and sustain a Value Stream Mapping (VSM) project, the purpose of which is to develop your company’s Current and Future State maps for a product line. From this we will assist you with the creation of your Implementation Plan. The Implementation Plan will identify immediate cost savings that can be made through the application of Value Stream Mapping.

Delegates who have little or no prior knowledge of the subject matter are welcome to attend this training. Through a mixture of simulation and practical project work the course will give employees the necessary tools and techniques to be able to go on and complete their own VSM project.

Due to the strategic nature of this event we recommend that support is granted from site management in order to drive the indentified improvement projects forward. This would come from having an overall responsibility for a factory or workplace improvement programme, or be in an operational management position within a manufacturing or process environment.

Get Qualified in Lean Manufacturing

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Step over the competition!

The KCTS Lean Manufacturing qualification is an abridged version of training that we have used to catapult major Blue Chip companies, such as Unilever and Saint Gobain into becoming the industry standard in World Class Manufacturing.

Tackle stubborn projects:

The key to our success over other training providers is that we base our workshops around the completion of real live site projects. The result is a demonstrated improvement in your business KPI’s. We achieve this through the application of Lean tools such as;

Problem solving:
Set up reduction (SMED)
Statistical process control
Visual management systems
Value stream mapping
TPM
5S

Lean qualification further information >>

Measures of Lean Performance

Monday, November 30th, 2009

KCTS Resource October edition supplement 2.

Measures should be used to understand the performance of a business or department. This can be to benchmark against other operations for comparison.
The measures will also demonstrate improvements achieved through the application of Business Improvement Techniques. Measuring the initial condition of an area before making improvements is vital.

Measures of performance in lean

 

 

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