Lean

Becoming a Lean organisation involves many steps and requires a commitment to doing business differently. Those organisations that adopt Lean operations across their activities perform effectively and efficiently with unnecessary waste eliminated. Significant measurable cost, quality and delivery improvements are realised. Improved customer satisfaction and increased competitiveness are achieved through the use of Lean.

Lean is a continuous improvement activity which involves the application of specific tools and techniques to create value streams in existing and planned processes.

At Thornley Group we provide consultancy services that enable organisations to set strategy and deploy lean in a sustainable way. We ensure that all the know-how required for sustainability is in place so that lean can continue to be successful in the long term.

Contact us to find out more about our Lean consultancy services.

To support out consultancy services, we offer tarining in all the relevent disciplines. Thornley Group training in Lean is designed for all levels, from senior management to shop-floor. A wide range of consulting and training programmes have been created to cover everything from strategy through to machine maintenance.

Training

Lean Operations Implementation
• General awareness training • Executive and Champion training • Lean Process Leader training	1 day 2 days 7 days

In addition to the core training in Lean Operations, Thornley Group can offer tiered levels of training to either supplement a Lean Operations Implementation programme or to establish a range lean capabilities.

This training is aimed at senior management and people responsible for lean projects and is more suited to smaller organisations or new recruits.

Supplementary Lean Training
• Introduction to Lean Operations • Creating the Lean Organisation • Lean tools and techniques	1 day 2 days 5 days

For organisations already adopting Lean Operations or those with a requirement for specific tools and techniques training, Thornley Group offers a range of short courses that cover all aspects of Lean Operations. This training will provide the knowlege and know-how to ensure that people contribute effectively. All the tools and techniques are covered and candidates with a wide range of pre-existing knowlege can attend.

The lean toolkit includes 5S, SMED, TPM, Poka-Yoke (mistake proofing) and workplace organisation. It also includes the use of continuous process improvement tools such as those employed in Six-Sigma.

The Lean elements training is split into distinct areas that allows candidates to focus on one or more particular aspects of Lean Operations.

Lean Operations Elements
• Single Piece Flow • 5S • SMED • Kanban • TPM • Poka-Yoke (mistake proofing) • Process Improvement	1/2 day 1/2 day 1/2 day 1/2 day 1/2 day 1/2 day 2 days