What is Lean?
Lean is a way of improving work by removing anything the customer would not pay for: waiting, rework, extra steps, excess stock and needless movement. It started in car factories, and today hospitals, banks, government offices and warehouses use it as much as factories do.
Who it is for
- Operations and production staff
- Process improvement teams
- Supervisors and team leads
- Office and service teams, not only manufacturing
What you will cover
| Session | What is covered |
|---|---|
| Value from the customer point of view | The definition that makes everything else in Lean follow. |
| The eight wastes, seen in your own process | Working from participants own operations rather than textbook examples. |
| Value stream mapping | Drawing the current state, including the waiting that nobody records. |
| Flow and pull | Why large batches feel efficient and usually are not. |
| 5S beyond housekeeping | Workplace organisation as a control, not a tidiness campaign. |
| Standard work | Capturing the current best method so improvement has a baseline. |
| Making improvement continuous | Why most Lean programmes stall at month four, and what prevents it. |
The eight wastes
- Defects. Errors and rework, such as a wrong invoice or a failed test.
- Overproduction. Making more, or earlier, than the customer needs.
- Waiting. People or work standing still, such as approvals sitting in an inbox.
- Unused talent. Skills and ideas in the team that nobody asks for.
- Transport. Moving materials or files more than needed.
- Inventory. Stock and work piling up between steps.
- Motion. People walking, searching or reaching more than needed.
- Extra processing. Steps the customer does not value, such as entering the same data twice.
Lean, Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma?
Lean speeds a process up by removing waste. Six Sigma makes it reliable by cutting errors and variation. Lean Six Sigma combines both. This course is the Lean half. To add the Six Sigma tools, see the Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt and Green Belt.
What is included
- 2 days of live, instructor-led training
- Full digital courseware and exercise pack
- Agile Visa Certificate of Completion
- Post-course support from the training team
How it runs
- Private classes. Every programme runs for one company at a time, quoted per group rather than per seat, with examples from your industry.
- Live online or on site. Live online with the trainer in your working hours, wherever your team is, or at your premises for company groups. Travel for on site classes is quoted separately.
- Class size. Up to 25 people, so everyone works on a real process or project. Larger groups run as several classes.
- Language. Delivered in English.
- Malaysia. Programmes delivered by Agile Visa Sdn Bhd are HRD Corp claimable for eligible employers, subject to HRD Corp approval. See Lean Six Sigma training in Malaysia.
Where we deliver
We run Lean Fundamentals and Waste Elimination training live online for teams anywhere in the world, in your working hours, and on site at your premises for company groups: across the Americas, the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. See where we deliver.
Part of our Lean Six Sigma training for teams.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Lean Fundamentals and Waste Elimination training cost?
We run it as a private class for your company and quote per group, not per seat. Tell us the number of people, the format and where they are, and we will send a quotation. Any certification exam fee is shown on its own line.
How long is Lean Fundamentals and Waste Elimination?
2 days / 14 hours, live and instructor-led, online in your working hours or on site at your premises.
Who delivers the training?
Prashant Shinde, founder of Agile Visa, with 20+ years of delivery and 75,000+ professionals trained across 140+ countries. He earned the 6sigmastudy Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Six Sigma Green Belt in 2016.
Can our company use a training levy or fund?
In Malaysia, programmes delivered by Agile Visa Sdn Bhd are HRD Corp claimable for eligible employers, subject to HRD Corp approval: see Lean Six Sigma training in Malaysia. Elsewhere, companies usually pay from their training budget, and we provide the quotation, invoice and attendance records your own approval process needs.
What are the eight wastes of Lean?
Defects, overproduction, waiting, unused talent, transport, inventory, motion and extra processing.
Is Lean only for manufacturing?
No. This course works with office and service teams as much as production. Approvals, claims, admissions, orders and reports are all processes with waste in them.
Will we work on our own processes?
Yes. Participants walk a real process from their own operation, find the waste in it and put a value on removing it.
Bring Lean Fundamentals and Waste Elimination to your team
Tell us the number of people, where they are and when. We reply with an agenda, the certification options and a quote.
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