Job Instruction (JI)
Develops process stability by developing the “one best way” to do a job, and creates a solid training foundation for improvement programs.
Solutions Through People
Lean Training and Programming
What is Lean Training?
Lean training helps workers build a foundation for unified, repeatable success.
As a workplace methodology, Lean describes how an organization operates. The primary goals of Lean include reducing waste and streamlining processes, but the overall objective is to create an organizational mindset where continuous improvement thinking is unified and workplace behaviors are universal and standardized.
Lean’s never-ending cycle of waste removal and value identification can achieve the following:
- Increased production
- Decreased downtime
- Improved products and services
- Elimination of defects in processes and products
- Streamlined inventory
- Optimization of your workforce’s skills
- Workers empowered to identify areas for improvement
Lean foundational programs like Job Instruction, Job Relations, Kata Practice, Standardized Work and TWI Problem Solving can be tailored to employees at different levels within different industries, including frontline workers, middle-management or senior executives in manufacturing, healthcare and beyond.
When combined with Six Sigma (the statistical approach to quality control), Lean trainees can earn certifications (or belts) for achieving subsequent levels of mastery. However, while Six Sigma belts and official Lean certifications certainly have their place, our ultimate goal is to provide iterative, lasting, practical knowledge and skills that can be applied in any professional setting.
The work we do with you and your teams is designed to be an ideal foundation or complement to your current or planned training initiatives. These can include Lean manufacturing/healthcare, continuous improvement, kaizen, operational excellence or talent development.
Results that make a difference
45
% increase in productivity
25
%reduction in waste
101
% increase in improvement ideas
50
%reduction in downtime
31
%improvement in employee engagement
These statistics represent documented composite results from actual improvements measured in client engagements and tracking metrics from the U.S. government.
Programs for Lean
Our Lean manufacturing and healthcare training programs make a big difference for a simple reason — they are foundational. The end goal of each is to educate your workforce, train your leaders and improve processes in a way that will have a lasting positive impact.
Job Relations (JR)
Teaches supervisors how to handle relationship issues with a people-centric view and prevent them from happening.
Job Methods (JM)
Encourages higher productivity and output by improving the way jobs get done and eliminating, combining, rearranging and simplifying steps in the process.
Job Safety (JS)
Provides a framework for supervisors to engage employees in identifying potential hazards, eliminating them and preventing their recurrence.
TWI Problem Solving (PS)
Consolidates and integrates the proven TWI programs of JI, JR and JM, enabling frontline supervisors and workers to be self-sufficient and solve the problems they face more quickly and collaboratively.
Introduction to Practicing Kata
Provides expert guidance in Improvement Kata by setting your goal, establishing current and target conditions, identifying obstacles, introducing PDCA-based experimentation, and practicing Coaching Kata while being mentored by TWI Institute Certified Trainers.
Foundations and Simulation
Melds Kata practice routines with a realistic, hands-on simulation, which creates an authentic foundation for teams in a variety of industries and organizational roles.
Driving and Coaching Improvement
Gives executives and managers everything they need to begin the Kata journey and put programs into practice at their organizations through a week-long, hands-on program.
Standardized Work
The bedrock foundation for all improvement programs, Standardized Work defines a standard for any given process and these standards become the common reference points for the way a task is performed. Standardized Work fights instability and its negative effects.
Lean-related problems solved by our coaching and training programs.
Stalled Improvement Initiatives
Providing an improvement foundation; recognizing problems and root causes; achieving buy-in across the organizational spectrum
Lack of Engagement
Involving supervisors, teams and workers in ideation and solutions
Resistance to Collaboration
Creating alignment with your Lean vision; building productive relationships and teamwork between supervisors and workers
Skills Gaps
Identifying gaps; upskilling, reskilling and cross skilling
Instability
Developing the baselines for improvement: standards and Standardized Work
Physical and Personal Safety
Training workers and teams to be mindful, observant and responsive to risks and safety improvements.
Our Experience Offers You Insights to Improvement
Lean is not a quick fix for specific problems or challenges. Rather, it is a foundational business strategy that helps companies manage change, competitive advantage and customer value, while building in a framework for ongoing organization-wide improvement.
The TWI Institute brings you insights and experience from markets and marketplaces worldwide. This track record helps global players – and locals who play globally – leverage the power of people to ignite ideas, solve problems and spur growth.
The TWI Institute brings you insights and experience from markets and marketplaces worldwide. This track record helps global players – and locals who play globally – leverage the power of people to ignite ideas, solve problems and spur growth.
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Our end-to-end approach sets us apart
Our proven methods stretch far beyond essential TWI, Kata and Standardized Work training. From initial preparation to ongoing consulting, we prepare people and workplaces for continuous improvement, better outcomes and increased engagement.
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