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The Accelerated Route to Lean Manufacturing™
The lean ‘toolkit’ to transform your manufacturing business
The Accelerated Route to Lean Manufacturing is a results-driven programme for those who want to become champions of lean manufacturing within their own work place. After just 12 weeks (one day per week) delegates will master the proven skills of world class lean manufacturing - able to put their knowledge into practice.
Overview
- A practical, hands-on programme to discover how to drive out waste and drive up efficiency across the total production system - from supplier to customer.
- Quick and simple path to rapidly boost shop floor performance
"The introduction of lean manufacturing is the biggest single improvement in the 40 years the company has been trading"
Benefits
- Delivered by some of Britain's best manufacturing experts and practitioners
- Teaches lean tools and techniques for immediate shop floor implementation
- 'Learn by doing' - practical forums and factory visit combined with classroom based sessions
- Leads to prestigious qualifications, including a Manufacturing Institute Fellowship
- 100% relevant to the specific issues you face in your factory
Features
- Master Value Stream Mapping to give you the 'BIG picture' and identify weak points
- Solve the root cause to your problems and defects
- Perfect your team working skills and customer focus
- Apply Quality Management and Total Productive Maintenance
- Reduce costs and collapse lead times
- Shrink inventory and stock levels
Track record
More than 260 manufacturers have tried, tested and implemented our lean programme, among them:
- Waterfields Bakery saved £744,000 through improved productivity and supply chain efficiencies.
- Tikkurula Coatings recovered £210,000 worth of inventory and improved lead times by 60%.
- Wolstenholme International doubled productivity and boosted profits by £72,000.
“With the ideas and knowledge we have gained from The Manufacturing Institute, the company has just completed its first year of lean operation and turnover has increased by 20 per cent. This has to be one of the most effective ways of improving the bottom-line performance of your business.”
Joe Traynor, Lean Implementation Manager, Universal Products Lytham manufacturing Ltd.
“I was awarded a Fellowship in Lean Manufacturing after pursuing a project to encourage our shop floor teams to embrace lean thinking. Within a matter of weeks, operational staff had implemented 230 improvements. The introduction of 5S and Autonomous Maintenance has made a big difference to our bottom line.” Tony Hayden, Deputy Bronze Manufacturing Manager, Wolstenholme International.