COURSE INFORMATION
TBM provided a good balance of training while simultaneously helping us to make operational improvements during our training weeks. They did exactly what they said they would do. They spent the time to listen to our needs and develop a customized approach. Now we are developing our lean leaders and can self-sustain our efforts.
JP Gnanam
Director of Lean and BIP
Accellent
Leadership Awareness, Networking,
and On-boarding
CEO Boot Camp: A unique opportunity to interact closely, one-on-one with executive practitioners who aggressively leverage lean as a tool for market dominance. The game-changing event includes tours of each facility and meetings with executive leadership at each location. Client hosts discuss how they are successfully implementing and achieving their strategic objectives. Attendees are able to immerse themselves for a brief period of time and see what these leaders have accomplished, understand how they’ve overcome hurdles, and learn first-hand how they achieved lasting culture change.
Leveraging LeanSigma for Growth: A top-level overview using discussion and interactive simulations that demonstrate how the LeanSigma methodology provides a platform for effective change. Discover what's required to lead your own transformation for gaining and sustaining market leadership.
Kaizen Breakthrough Experience: Experience the key concepts, tools and techniques used during a kaizen week. Participate on one of three dedicated kaizen teams and drive immediate improvement. Experience the dramatic bottom-line improvement and efficiency you can quickly achieve and sustain as your Kaizen team implements lean tools on the factory floor or in a business process support function.
Certification Courses
TBM Lean Certification: Kaizen Facilitator: Comprehensive lean certification training for candidates who want to learn how to lead kaizen events. Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to become proficient at driving change and results in your company. Includes mentoring by a TBM Lean Master and hands-on experience for facilitating a kaizen event.
TBM Lean Certification: Program Leader:  Comprehensive, advanced lean certification training for candidates who want to learn how to lead a lean deployment. This level of certification was developed for lean practitioners and program managers responsible for leading lean deployments or multi-site continuous improvement programs. Graduates complete the program with hands-on lean implementation experience and knowledge to develop a lean transformation plan for a site, division or company.
LeanSigma Green Belt: Â Hands-on, experiential belt training for operations professionals who need to combine lean and Six Sigma tools to rapidly implement high-impact business improvements. Green Belt certification provides candidates with LeanSigma principles, kaizen methodology and Six Sigma statistical problem-solving tools to create a faster approach to identifying and correcting problems.
LeanSigma Black Belt Training: Multi-week, experiential training for full-time, continuous improvement and quality team members. The program provides advanced classroom and hands-on training to drive high-impact improvement. Black Belt certification teaches candidates how to lead Sigma Kaizen events and how to use kaizen to complete black belt projects in six weeks versus a typical six months. The curriculum includes value-stream analysis and Six Sigma statistical problem-solving tools. LeanSigma Green Belt is not a prerequisite to LeanSigma Black Belt.
Skill Development
Lean Tool Kit: A five-day workshop covering lean tools and how they can be integrated as business strategies to achieve improved operational results.
Creating a Continuous Improvement Office: Understand the strategies, tools and skills required to quickly establish a highly-effective kaizen promotion office, confidently chart your path of lean improvement, maintain and build momentum and achieve dramatic, sustainable results.
Kaizen Instructor Training: Critical kaizen week day one instructor training, for shop floor and business process events that will set the foundation for dramatic improvement and successful culture change at the start of each kaizen event. Includes instructor materials.
Sustainment and Growth
Managing for Daily Improvement: A five-day workshop appropriate for front-line supervisors, team leaders and line facilitators, delivered on the shop floor of a leading lean company (or at your own facility) that provides you and your team with the tools and techniques required to implement and sustain daily continuous improvement initiatives in your work area.  This critical supervisor training helps you create best practices for abnormality identification and response. Teaches you how to apply point kaizen strategies and create critical performance metrics.
Sustaining Lean Results: A five-day workshop appropriate for operations management, plant managers and continuous improvement leaders. Provides you with the strategies, tools and skills required to preserve the returns of your continuous improvement program. Key learning includes layered audits, use of the A3 methodology, 8D problem solving, and approaches for instilling a culture of continuous improvement and enthusiasm at all levels of the organization.
Design for Lean Sigma: A five-day workshop for design and manufacturing engineers, product and marketing managers, quality managers, continuous improvement professionals and others involved in the design, development and production phases of new product launch. Experience an effective approach to new product development, production process design and implementation within a lean framework. Learn how to consistently launch innovative products significantly faster and more cost effectively than your competition. Includes voice of customer (VOC) and hands-on simulation to streamline the process.
Conferences
LeanSigma Global Summit (United States): The US 2010 summit is scheduled for September 14-17 just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. The summit includes a half-day pre-conference workshop agenda with deep dives into high-interest topics including: Lean in a regulatory environment, aligning continuous improvement metrics with financial results, using demand segmentation to create inventory strategies and minimize working capital, lean applied to SG&A reduction, and how to leverage lean to support your strategies for growth and profitability. The regular conference is packed with breakout sessions, keynote speakers and panel discussions for your entire team supporting continuous improvement activities. Content is appropriate for continuous improvement professionals and operations leadership engaged in a lean transformation. Request additional information from Bill Swisher at 800.438.5535 or submit an email inquiry.
Lean Excellence Conference (Europe): The European 2010 Lean Excellence Conference is scheduled for September 7-8, 2010 in Pontypool, Gwent, Wales. The conference includes a plant tour at Carlisle Brake. At the Lean Excellence Conference you'll have the opportunity to benchmark best-in-class lean practices and participate in case studies and breakout sessions on today's highest priority lean topics. There will be an expanded agenda with unique discussion tracks for discreet manufacturing and continuous process manufacturers. If you have any questions or would like to register by phone, please call us at +44.1332.367378 and ask for Donna Hopkins.
