Basic Tools and Techniques for Continuous Improvement

It is not just the toolkit that makes continuous improvement a living day-to-day reality. It is an improvement and problem solving structure within which to focus the use of these tools and techniques and the motivation and ability to use them. The course provides the unique opportunity to use durable structure and toolkit to motivate and enable staff to focus on real business issues.

Content

• The need for change and the threat of not changing
• Criteria for sustaining successful improvement initiatives
• Typical development problems and why they occur
• The five types of change
• The 21 wastes and which of these are adversely affecting your business today
• Organizing for operational improvement
• Identification and Management of problems
• Understanding the needs and capabilities of resources (CARAP Analysis)
• Reducing equipment downtime

Who Should Attend

Directors, Managers, Team leaders, supervisors prior to implementation and then onwards to all staff new to continuous improvement and who you would like to engage in this process