Lean Management Practical Workshop

 Course Duration: 1 Day – 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Learn what True Lean comprises in the context of quality and effectiveness of improvement. This workshop covers key practices and how to lead during a Lean intervention including management of change and frontline culture enrichment over a 1-day classroom workshop. This training is designed to change mindsets in the organisation and enable keen awareness of the sources of hidden waste in the delivery your company’s products and services.

Learn how local SME companies in Offaly and the midlands region have saved more than €15 million over the period 2021-2025 from lean management “Belt” programmes.

Candidates will be awarded Lean Management White Belt Certification on completion of this course.

Topics Covered

• Lean Management Overview
• How to Create a Culture of High-Performance Excellence - Business and Sport Parallels
• Building Employee Engagement in the Workplace
• 13 Forms of Operational Waste
• Waste Exercise
• 72 Change Concepts for Workplace Improvement
• Working with Teams
• Generic and Proven Roadmap for Successful Organisational Wide Transformation

Overview of Methods and Tools

• The 4 Rules in Use (The DNA of Operational Excellence)
• Process Mapping
• Mapping Exercise
• 5S Workplace Organisation and Simulation Game
• Visual Management and Managing for Daily Improvement
• Employee Visual Idea System
• Quick Changeover
• Standard Work using Training Within Industry (TWI)
• Kaizen Event: AIE Workshop
• Mistake Proofing
• Management of Change
• Identify and Develop a Small Project for Implementation that will Deliver €10K in Tangible Savings to Your Business

Andy Brophy Profile

Andy Brophy is a Lean & Innovation Improvement Advisor. He has been working in the Lean field for the last 25 years with a diverse range of organisations including manufacturing, construction, government, services, online, software development, and hospitals. Andy is a professional engineer (BEng in Manufacturing) and holds a 1st Class MSc in Lean Operations from Cardiff University and is certified Six Sigma Black Belt. In May 2010 he published the co-authored book Innovative Lean with John Bicheno of the Lean Enterprise Research Center in the UK. This work is primarily based on the power of harvesting and implementing employee ideas and creating an innovative and empowered workforce. In 2011 he was selected by Pearson’s the world’s largest book publisher to write The Financial Times Guide to Lean. The book is translated into Spanish, German, Dutch, Japanese and Chinese.

White, Yellow, Green, and Black Belt Lean Sigma instructor (> 6000 delegates certified).