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Individuals often report that several hours per day are wasted in searching for materials, equipment, and information needed to do their job! 5S with Visaul Controls Method and Skills teaches you how to help teams get engaged in improvement and create immediate, meaningful, and visual improvement in their workplace.

Objective: To gain practical ideas to learn and try to decrease the time to create results and achieve our outcomes. Agenda: Explore structure, support, and methods to that drive speed to results: -Effective preparations -People engagement -Improvement approaches

Industry accreditations and certifications help guide this journey to higher performance. They provide structure, expectations, and practical activities that support.

Accelerate the speed and improve the quality a product or process by eliminating wait times, queue times, and other delays. Significant process improvement can be achieved with the application of 1. Flow one unit at a time (or minimum batch size), at a formulated and balanced rate; 2. Kanbans, and 3. visual controls to pull products or information.

System-wide thinking approach and templates will identify big changes that improve work processes and outcomes for all. It's a Win-Win! This will help you identify where problems occur AND where they begin. Note, system-wide thinking will have you focusing beyond your areas of control. It will involve your customers, partners, and suppliers.

Goal: To gain foundational improvement cycle understanding.

A culture of improvement is an organizational way of working where everyone is engaged every day in improving how value is created. It creates long-term, sustained results for all stakeholders, remains strong through leadership changes, and aligns the organization's DNA -

Processes with lots of variation and poor performance need standard work instructions. Creating the standards sets expectations and creates a calm consistency. In these working sessions you will learn how to create and document standard procedures to gain some immediate productivity. Teams have gained up to 20% productivity/capacity!