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Lean Tool Awareness Certificate – Fall 2024

Productivity Inc. and The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business join together to offer the Lean Tool Awareness Certificate Program (LTAC). Learn how to implement Lean and enhance positive change in your company through this unique program, taught by the leaders in Lean education.

In this intensive one-week, fully accredited program, you will learn how and where to start on your Lean journey. Experienced Lean practitioners and educators transfer knowledge of the Lean fundamentals through a combination of classroom lecture, group activities, and simulations.

Upon completion of this eight-module program, you will be awarded the Lean Tool Awareness Certificate by Productivity Inc. and the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Graduates of the LTAC Program earn 4 CEUs.

Designed for those seeking a solid understanding of Lean techniques and for managers, supervisors, and team leaders responsible for continuous improvement projects.

Objectives

Participants who complete this program will:

Learn a systemic approach to Lean implementation.
Gain an understanding of key concepts of Lean and how to apply them.
Discover the importance of creating standards.
Differentiate yourself in a market filled with skilled professionals.

The Lean Office – Spring 2024

Learn the Lean fundamentals, techniques needed to make information flow, create better customer experiences and reduce your administrative costs.

The Lean Office program is a 5-day virtually delivered program designed to start you on the path to continuous improvement! Learn how to eliminate backlogs, failure demand (rework) and other inefficiencies while improving customer service and employee satisfaction!

Change your Business Before Someone Else Does…

Productivity has spent the last 40+ years helping organizations change their status quo with the implementation of Lean techniques. We have seen firsthand the benefits Lean brings to an organization like yours, in customer service, HR, accounting, sales and marketing, product and service operations, and more.

Becoming a Lean company will speed your time to market. Lean will also provide increases in capacity, quality and employee satisfaction, eliminate non-value-added activities, and reduce downtime and waste.

The Lean Office program is specifically designed to teach you the fundamental techniques needed to start a Lean effort in your administrative environment. In just 5 days you’ll learn 9 foundational Lean techniques and how they fit together to create a systemic process for identifying and eliminating service inefficiencies and process waste.

Designed for service and administrative managers looking to start a Lean effort in their organization.

Lean in Laboratories – A 5-Day Certificate Program

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Pharmaceuticals, Human and Animal Healthcare, Bio-tech environments, Cosmetics, Chemicals, Food industries, R&D…

The Lean laboratory certificate program is designed to start you on the path to continuous improvement in your lab! Learn how to manage flows, eliminate backlogs, rework, and other inefficiencies while improving service to production, supply chain and customers and increasing employee satisfaction.

Why is Lean important in lab environments?
Because a laboratory is involved at each step of the Value Stream — incoming materials and goods, work-in process, and semi finished and finished products — delays and errors have a negative impact on the entire organization. Therefore speed, reliability and quality, i.e. lab efficiency, have a direct impact on overall organizational efficiency, as well as costs and the ability to meet customer demand.

Furthermore, specialized skills needed in the laboratory make it specially devastating for the organization when individual technicians leave due to an inefficient stressful process and environment.

Applying Lean in a lab environment helps alleviate inefficiencies by:
− Improving end-to-end processes (Value Streams)
− Underscoring demand and its variability
− Scheduling analysis flows based on demand
− Defining resources required
− Creating and sharing standards to reduce rework

While
− Creating a working environment based on trust, empowerment, and teamwork
− Upskilling through cross-training
− Developing problem-solving skills

The Lean Lab concepts apply to all laboratories including Production Labs, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and R&D.

Maintenance Miracle – An Autonomous Maintenance Kaizen Event – Fall 2023

Why do you need TPM?

TPM is the foundation of equipment/process reliability and reliability is the enabler to Lean.
TPM/AM Goals

Zero accidents
Zero unplanned downtime
Zero speed losses
Zero defects
Minimum life cycle costs

PM/AM raises APQ (availability, performance, quality).

67% reduction in unplanned downtime
67% increase in equipment/process performance efficiency (that’s free capacity!)
70% reduction in maintenance (fix/repair) costs

Program Description

Autonomous Maintenance (AM) is the foundation of TPM and the focus of the Maintenance Miracle event. AM is not really a miracle, but a proven process that partners operators, maintenance technicians, engineers, and leaders in the operation and maintenance of equipment.

In this 3½ day event, participants will gain an understanding of the seven steps of Autonomous Maintenance and the fundamental techniques of 5S and Visual Controls and develop the skills to stabilize equipment performance and stop deterioration by learning to:

Construct, Perform, and Adhere to cleaning, inspection and lubrication
(CIL) standards.
Create one-point lessons (OPL).
- Basic information OPL which ensures adherence to standard work.
- Improvement Bulletin OPL which documents and allows horizontal
  expansion of new best practices as they are discovered.
Identify equipment abnormalities.
Identify and create equipment improvements/contamination controls.

Working in teams alongside associates from the host facility, participants will apply the methods learned to equipment in the workplace which reinforces the learning that has taken place during the classroom sessions through actual application.

At the conclusion of the event, you will understand the techniques and have the skills to begin an autonomous maintenance effort in your facility.

Created to teach the 7-steps of Autonomous Maintenance and demonstrate a process for conducting AM Steps 1-3 in your facility.

Maintenance Miracle – An Autonomous Maintenance Kaizen Event – Spring 2024

Why do you need TPM?

TPM is the foundation of equipment/process reliability and reliability is the enabler to Lean.

TPM/AM Goals

Zero accidents
Zero unplanned downtime
Zero speed losses
Zero defects
Minimum life cycle costs

TPM/AM raises APQ (availability, performance, quality).

67% reduction in unplanned downtime
67% increase in equipment/process performance efficiency (that’s free capacity!)
70% reduction in maintenance (fix/repair) costs

Program Description

Construct, Perform, and Adhere to cleaning, inspection and lubrication
(CIL) standards.
Create one-point lessons (OPL).
- Basic information OPL which ensures adherence to standard work.
- Improvement Bulletin OPL which documents and allows horizontal
  expansion of new best practices as they are discovered.
Identify equipment abnormalities.
Identify and create equipment improvements/contamination controls.

At the conclusion of the event, you will understand the techniques and have the skills to begin an autonomous maintenance effort in your facility.

Created to teach the 7-steps of Autonomous Maintenance and demonstrate a process for conducting AM Steps 1-3 kaizen in your facility.

Leading Lean

REGISTER NOW for special pricing. Sign up for all four days and receive a $550 discount!

This 4-event series covers the four foundations of Lean Management. By diving into the essence of Lean Thinking, it is designed to help Leaders develop a long-lasting Continuous Improvement Culture in their organization and successfully grow people and businesses.

Manager of Maintenance Improvement Certificate

Where are you today ?

When equipment plans its own downtime it is ten times more costly to get back to a safe, efficient, “run-ready” state!

Moving from a reactive to a proactive maintenance environment has a big and positive impact directly on your bottom line. Did you know that when equipment plans its own downtime (i.e. a breakdown) it is ten times more costly both financially and in terms of capacity losses to get back to a safe, efficient ‘run-ready’ state?

Chances are you already know you must do something to improve the reliability of your equipment but you might not know exactly what to do or how to get started.

This one week, fully-accredited program has been designed to introduce you to nine fundamental techniques for doing just that! Your own examples will be discussed during the session to help illustrate methods being covered. Get started on your journey to World Class Reliability today.

Upon completion of this program, you will be awarded: the Manager of Maintenance Improvement Certificate by Productivity Inc. and the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Graduates of the program earn 4 CEUs.

Designed for maintenance and production resources seeking a solid understanding of the fundamental techniques for improving the maintenance process.

The 3P Experience – Beyond the Kaizen Event

Program Description

Designed for managers of engineering, development, and manufacturing looking for radical improvement in the design of lean supply chains, facilities, value streams, right-sized equipment, processes, products and services.

Short for Production Preparation Process, 3P is all about rapidly designing product and production processes to ensure capability, built-in quality, reliability, and flow-takt-pull. Rather than modifying an existing process, 3P helps you to meet business and customer requirements by starting with a clean development slate.

3P often yields results that qualify as competitive advantages. It is not uncommon for 3P to help achieve 80-90% reduction in new product and process lead-time and overall capital costs while increasing productivity, delivery, performance, and financial returns by those same percentages.

3P brings together a cross-functional team, which can include employees, suppliers, customers, and third party technical resources, to experiment with design, mock-ups, and simulations. This process allows the team to develop new methods, products, and processes to meet new business case concepts and target costs. 3P is a dynamic methodology that allows you to achieve kaikaku — radical improvement.

You can leverage it in the design of Lean supply chains, facilities, value streams, right-sized equipment, processes, products, and services to help you achieve giant competitive leaps forward and become a game changer in your industry.

Created to teach a process for rapidly designing (or redesigning) product and production processes to ensure capability and build in quality, reliability, and flow-takt-pull.