Lean Training & Consultation

Lean thinking is a way of identifying what is valuable to your customer and what they are willing to pay for. More importantly it identifies waste which can be cut.

Money and resources can be saved not just in manufacturing but all businesses; Construction, Hospitality and Service Industries, Cleaning Services, Accountancy and Manufacturing.

Lean: what it can do for you

In these uncertain times Lean Thinking and the Lean Process can transform your processes and business. Implementing a Lean startegy can;

Slash delivery times
Shrink Inventory and Work in Progress
Minimise or eliminate mistakes and re-works
Free up capital using existing resources often with zero outlay.
Reduce costs across the board.
Help innovate your processes to gain more value
Increase the agility of your company to respond quickly to changes in your market.

Benefits

The typical key benefits from implementing a lean philosphy are:

50% Reduction in Inventory /Work In Process
50% to 70% Reduction in delivery times
20 to 30% increase in productivity

Often utilising only existing resources.

Contact LeanSteps for further information and no obligation presentation.

LeanSteps is able to offer friendly advice, training and full implemenation of a Lean Strategy with short courses or full training for Lean Faciltors.

Short Introduction Courses

Short courses to cover all aspects of Lean , from 5S , Continous Improvement(Kaizen), Managing Flow, Single Piece Flow, Value Stream Mapping, Kanban and many more topics

Full Lean Workshops

"Hear and you forget

See and you remember

Do and you understand!"

Confucius(551 BC to 479 BC)

Train the Facilitors

Develop your own individual or team to implement your Lean Stategy in your own timescales

Courses

An introduction to Lean and its principles. Explaining the concepts and the potential Lean has for transforming your processes and business.

Lean First Steps

Lean Construction :Introduction

Short introduction to construction companies involved with phased/projects wanting to learn more about how lean construction can help innovate their processes. Covering "Pull Planning" and "Last Planner"

Lean Next Steps

Planning a Lean strategy for your business.

Lean Office:Introduction

Lean thinking targetted at the office enviroment. 5S, Value stream mapping and information flow are covered. Using your best resource, your people, to get the most from your processes.

Lean Up and Running

Full Kaikaku and Kaizen Implementation from Lean Workshop to developing and implementing a pilot scheme.

Lean IT: Introduction

Lean thinking targetted at the IT professional. Often IT is used to automate a process to make it more "efficient" in practice it often automates the waste. This introduction provokes ideas to approach IT in a differnet manner to maximise the benefit of implementing an new IT strategy. Using tools such as

5S, Value stream mapping and information flow are covered.

Upcoming Events

Nov

2023

Lean and Standards

The networking event went very well and generated at lot of interest in the updates.

Among the presentations were:

Andrew Cox LeanSteps:

What is Lean and what it can do to transform your processes and business.

Ian Shorten: IT Governance

An update on the new ISO27001 standard.

Michael Venner: Auva Certification

Adopting a risk-based approach to internal auditing

2023 Events

February

Lean Construction: An Interactive Webinar Introduction

An introduction to Lean Construction for professionals who are not familiar with Lean and the benefits it can bring to contruction businesses. Introducing the basics of Lean and tools such as Pull Planning.

Invitations will be sent in January to companies to select convenient dates and times afterwhich the schedule will be published. If you are interested in the Webinar please contact us.

March

Lean IT: An Interactive Webinar Introduction

An introduction to Lean IT for professionals who are not familiar with Lean and the benefits it can bring to IT and IT infra-Structure. Introducing the basics of Lean and tools such as Mapping Data Flow. Often IT is used to automate a process to make it more "efficient" in practice it often automates the waste. This webinar provokes ideas to approach IT in a differnet manner to maximise the benefit of implementing an new IT strategy.

Invitations will be sent in February to companies to select convenient dates and times afterwhich the schedule will be published. If you are interested in the Webinar please contact us.

October

Lean Manufacture: Case Study with a Tooling Company (Part 1)

An introduction to Lean Manufacturing by use of an example. Follow as I work with a company, as they reshape their manufacturing, as they take on board Lean Thinking.

Invitations will be sent in September to companies to select convenient dates and times afterwhich the schedule will be published. If you are interested in the Webinar please contact us.

Gallery

Learning is much more beneficial in groups and in person.

WatchItMade Cranfield University

Cranfield University introduction for schools to industrial manufacturing.

Brunel Workshop

Lean Workshop at Brunel University for the Production of Christmas Cards

Business Update

The benefits and savings of adopting a Lean Mindset