KAIZEN Event Planning Training

Workshop Overview



KAIZEN is a critical tool supporting companies and organizations in their ongoing improvement activities as identified through Enterprise Value Stream Mapping. It is critical for companies to use KAIZEN as part of this system level approach to improvement. The Future State Implementation Plan is based on KAIZEN Lean Principles supporting key company objectives. Through the use of KAIZEN Events, companies improve their end-to-end process through the introduction of Flow and Pull to improve Lead-time, process flexibility and Customer Responsiveness. KAIZEN Events move companies away from traditional lengthy projects where valuable resources spend more time in meeting rooms and completing updates than in making change happen.

KAIZEN Events is a focused approach that brings critical resources together and empowers participants to not only identify root cause and determine solutions but most importantly, to implement the change. Time and effort is spent on the shop floor or wherever the value stream problem exists.

In order to have a successful KAIZEN event you need to plan for it. This course will take you through the steps required to hold successful events.




Learning Objectives

• Introduce KAIZEN as an improvement tool supporting KAIZEN Lean


• Understand how KAIZEN supports Enterprise Value Stream Mapping and the Future State Implementation Plan


• Introduce KAIZEN as a tool that reinforces Team behaviors


• Understand how to prepare for a KAIZEN session



Program Agenda




• Introduction and getting started


• Define KAIZEN


• Identify a specific Value Stream problem


• Clearly develop a problem statement


• Completing the charter


• Identifying the team



• Gather critical data, information and observations


• Tools to Analyze the Problem





• Tools for choosing a solution






Who Should Attend?

In many cases, efforts to implement Lean have stalled because companies have failed to follow through with a formal approach to implementation. KAIZEN Events should involve participants throughout an organization with emphasis on those individuals that will be most affected by the identified changes.

These could be:

• Operational Leaders


• Value Stream Managers


• Financial/Purchasing Managers


• Trainers/Human Resources


• Quality Managers


• Engineering


• Continuous Improvement Leaders



Prerequisites


Novices to KAIZEN Lean implementation should attend 'Introduction To KAIZEN Lean' first to familiarize themselves with the basic concepts and principles of Lean.