Yorkshire Productivity can offer a wide range of lean training courses

• either on-site, specifically tailored to the individual company
• or as part of a group of learners from different companies off-site

Please see the brief summaries below or click on the PDFs at the bottom of the page for more detailed information on these courses:

5S
Adapted from the Japanese, the basic idea of this technique is very simple - keeping everything clean and orderly will increase efficiency and boost morale. 

This will create a significant improvement in the safety of the work environment and a consistently higher quality of product or service which in turn impacts on the bottom line.

Standard Operations
A standard operation employs the best method currently available of performing a specific task, so that the right levels of quality, cost, delivery and safety can be achieved consistently.

This course provides a solid grounding in the principles and application of standardisation - a good basis on which to build further learning and skills development.

Kaizen
Kaizen concerns continuous improvement and involves looking at how each task is carried out - continuously seeking to improve efficiency and quality.

JIT Kaizen
This is an improvement technique designed to help minimise waste at your workplace - and within the production process itself.

It gives you the means to assess how a process is currently organised and how you could improve it.

It is a crucial tool in reducing costs, improving quality and safety and enhancing productivity.

Production Led Maintenance
PLM is based on the principle that it is the operator who is most familiar with the particular machine they use. Consequently, he or she should be responsible for inspecting and maintaining it so that waste is kept to a minimum.

The course has five topics, which progress through a series of logical steps and show you what PLM can be used for - and how to implement it.

Skill Control
An important tool for measuring and managing the skills that people have and relating them to the job or task in hand, this involves measuring the level of a person's capability to carry out a task.

Then, as they gain experience or receive training, their performance of the task gets better and improvements can be tracked and recorded.

The Skill Control approach draws on the best available know-how and uses real life case studies so that you can relate what you learn to specific situations and successfully transfer it to your own work environment.

The 7 Tools
Sometimes called the 7 quality tools or pictorial tools, these present complex or abstract statistical information in a simple pictorial form.

They can play a crucial part in the drive to reduce costs, improve quality and safety and enhance productivity.

7 New Tools
Also known as Planning or Management Tools, these equip you with ways of organising information (verbal and qualitative) so that even the most complex problem can be broken down into simple components.

It's invaluable in the planning process - and in helping to improve quality and safety, reduce costs and increase productivity.

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
FMEA examines what might fail, what could be the result of this failure, and what could cause such a failure.

The solutions to the potential failures can then be prioritised, so that the most significant ones are dealt with first.

Set Up Reduction
Helping companies achieve quick changeover between processes lies at the heart of making real and significant productivity improvements.

The potential improvements impact on all areas of productivity; improved quality through consistent set-ups, reduced set-up errors, increased flexibility, increased safety through analysing current and best practice methods of working.

Total Productive Maintenance
The goal of TPM is to eliminate all wastes and downtime and improve machine reliability.This course provides a general introduction to the principles of Total Productive Maintenance and includes:

• How to start off on the journey
• The key stages and processes required to implement an effective TPM programme

A typical TPM programme will look to instill the principles across every employee, and every piece of equipment.

Lean Metrics
Lean metrics go beyond traditional financial and accounting measurements, which often measure only the end result.

They do not help control the process, solve problems or motivate people.

A balanced scorecard of Lean Metrics embraces the need for financial measures and complements them with strategic and operational measures that are the drivers of future success. Using a balanced scorecard, businesses in any sector can get things right first time more often - boost productivity, scrap reduction, get better customer satisfaction and reduce the amount of floor space needed.