Workshops

You can't expect people to do things differently without getting them to think differently. Workshops provide an opportunity for your people to learn about different ways to approach manufacturing.

LEAN Rt offers a number of workshops designed to assist people to understand the concepts of lean Competitive Manufacturing.

The Cube Factory workshop is a half or one day experiencial workshop where participants run a production process, making cubes, and learn about the benefits of lean manufacturing concepts such as single piece flow.

The 7 Deadly Wastes workshop is another good introductory workshop designed to give team members a good understanding of the wastes identified in the Toyota Production System and how they apply in your business.

An introduction to Lean Manufacturing workshop, delivered over two days this workshop is designed for the site leadership team. It provides an overveiw of lean Competitive Manufacturing. The tools and why they were developed and how to use them and includes support to begin developing your deployment strategy.

5S Workplace Organisation Workshop is a workshop that teaches the principals and purpose of 5S workplace organization and helps participants to understand that it is much more than housekeeping.

Introduction to Shopfloor Scoreboards Workshop helps participants to understand the importance of Visual Management and providing shop floor workers with the information they need to make good decisions.

Quick Changeover Workshop teaches participants a method to reduce down time between product runs, for maintainence and any other time that the process has to be interupted. Participants go through a simulated changeover process and then work together to reduce the time it takes.

Reliability for Operators Workshop is an opportunity to bring together operators and maintainers to work on improving operator care of equipment. Operator use and misuse of equipment is generally a major factor in equipment reliability. Improving operator care is a structured process of providing them with the information they need to know how to care for their equipment. A successful operator care program reduces unplanned downtime and frees up specialist maintainers time for planned activitities and improves reliability.