Green Belt in Lean Manufacturing

Lean is a business strategy for organizing and improving your operational activities in order to achieve your organization's objectives in a more effective way and to become more competitive. We strive for perfection by improving the flow of value throughout processes and departments and by mobilizing all employees, every single day again, to continuously improve processes and reduce waste (non value added activities).

This eight day training and certification program is developed specifically towards people in Manufacturing. Participants acquire the necessary basic knowledge of Lean and can apply basic Lean tools in order to be part of an improvement team or even lead/coach improvement events.

What can I do with this training?

You will have a deep understanding of the basic principles of Lean, as well as the different basic tools and techniques for implementing Lean in a manufacturing environment. You are able to participate or lead Kaizen/process improvement initiatives and events as part of the improvement of your company's value streams.

Target Audience

Manufacturing Managers, Team leaders and Supervisors, Engineers, People in Manufacturing who want to acquire the necessary basic knowledge of Lean and want to apply basic Lean tools in order to be part or lead/coach of an improvement team.

Prerequisites

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Certification

The Green Belt certificate can be obtained after passing a theory test and a practical exam, based on a written report of at least one practical point improvement/Kaizen event with demonstrated results by applying one or more Lean basic tools, learned in this training. The implementation must preferably have gone through at least one PDCA iteration.

Why follow a training with us?

The price contains the tuition fee, hand-outs, drink, coffee and sandwiches. 

For our open training schedule in Belgium see www.lean-academy.be

 
Dirk Van Goubergen (Program Director)

Raf Muës (Toyota Motor Europe),
Jan Hermans (Toyota Motor Europe)
Raf Aernouts (Bogaerts Greenhouse Logistics)

Day 1

• What is Lean? Basic principles of Lean (including simulation game).
• Value vs. Waste, types of Waste
• Overview of the most important pillars of Lean and the most important tools needed to implement Lean in your organization, based on the Toyota Production System (TPS).

Day 2

• Basic Value Stream Mapping (VSM) in Manufacturing

Day 3

• Basic Value Stream Mapping - continued
• Operational Stability (5S, Standard Work)

Day 4

• Lean and Value Stream Mapping in administrative/supporting processes

Day 5

• Kaizen, PDCA, A3
• Basic Problem Solving Techniques

Day 6

• Operational Stability (TPM)
• Jidoka - Built in Quality (Andon, Poka Yoke, Visual Management)

Day 7

• SMED - Set-Up Reduction

Day 8

• Kanban/Pull systems (incl. simulation game)