Measuring For KAIZEN Lean Success

Measuring For KAIZEN Lean Success Workshop Overview

Your organization and its Value Streams are different from all of the others. Why would you settle for using indicators from a general recipe book to gauge your success? Many workshops on measurement and Lean focus on telling the participants what they should measure to conform to a Lean system. Instead of prescribing what to measure, the main theme of this one-day workshop is to teach participants the reasoning process to evaluate which indicators are appropriate for their organizations. They then learn how to use them to avoid false conclusions or contrary behavior.

Learning Objectives

• Review of KAIZEN Lean principles and the essentials of TPS


• Why Measuring is important and what inappropriate measures can create


• Why we need to do accounting by value stream


• What outcome indicators are, and how they relate to customer value


• How to set effective process indicators within the value stream


• Why Variation is a problem, and how to 'see' special cause variation


• How to assess capability

Program Agenda

The teaching method for this workshop will be a combination of presentation, open classroom discussion, and case study in teams. The workshop teams will be encouraged to share their findings from the case study work with the other participants.

Measuring For KAIZEN Lean Success

• KAIZEN Lean and Measurement


• Why Measuring is Important


• Outcome Indicators and Customer Value


• Process Indicators and Variation


• Capability


• Implementing New Measures


• Conclusion

A two-day version of this workshop is available to organizations opting for additional instruction on Statistical Process Control.

Who Should Attend?

• Value Stream Managers


• Line Supervisors And Lead Hands


• Accountants


• Production Planners


• Senior Managers


• Logistics Professionals

This workshop is essential for those individuals charged with the responsibility for cultural change in their organizations.

Prerequisites

None - this is a basic workshop on the accounting and measuring changes required to achieve success with KAIZEN Lean.