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Lean-Flow Certification

Lean-Flow is effective and important!

That is why Saint Paul College and the University of Wisconsin-Stout have teamed together to offer a Lean-Flow Certification Program. We chose the certification approach to Lean-Flow training because it gives both the quickest impact on the bottom line and greatest long-term payoff through increased capacity. Certification allows you to groom key individuals in your organization as in-house Lean-Flow experts.

Why hasn’t everyone adopted Lean-Flow?

Lean-Flow is not a point solution—as improvements are made to one area, other areas of the business are impacted, creating new improvement projects throughout the organization. This continuous improvement process requires leadership, commitment and a solid understanding of the principles and tools of Lean-Flow in order for it to provide ongoing increases in profits for your company.

How to begin Lean-Flow improvements

Our Lean-Flow Certificate Program was created to help you manage the complex challenges of implementing Lean-Flow concepts. If you are seeking the most current, results-oriented training available in Lean-Flow principles, the Lean-Flow Certificate is exactly what you need. Our accelerated training program provides a series of five fullday workshops covering the essential Lean-Flow topics—and enabling you to hit the ground running!

Lean-Flow Certification Registration

To register for Lean-Flow cert, fill out the Lean-Flow registration form.

Lean-Flow course descriptions

Our Lean-Flow Certification Program offers specialized instruction for both the production and service environments and provides workshops and events that directly target your relevant issues. The five courses are described below.

1. Lean-Flow Basics

You already know the benefits of a truly LEAN enterprise — it produces more with existing resources because it eliminates non-value-added activities and creates flow throughout the organization. But Lean-Flow principles can be difficult to apply—whether on the shop floor or in the office. Our experienced practitioners provide personalized, hands-on, practical experience that cuts through the confusion of methods, systems and rhetoric to focus on RESULTS. Our Lean-Flow Basics workshop introduces a systematic approach to eliminating waste. Learn how to eliminate the eight forms of waste, use the 5S approach to improve organization, improve throughput, apply point of use storage concepts, implement cellular/flow layout and much, much more. Live simulations provide realistic before and after scenarios.

2. 5S/Visual Workplace

The principles of 5S are based on the simple idea that improvements begin with a workplace that is organized, clean and standardized and contains only what is required. Discover how to enhance your organization’s communication and productivity. Learn how to employ 5S methodology and implement visual workplace techniques in your operations. Return to your organization with skills that will allow you to implement positive visible change.

3. Quick Changeover

Builds on the principles of the Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) system to dramatically reduce or eliminate changeover time. The four-step Changeover Improvement Process is used to help companies design no-cost/low-cost solutions to reduce changeover time. In turn, this allows the business to meet customer demands for high-quality, low-cost products, delivered quickly and without the expense of excess inventory. The systematic process includes analyzing a changeover, then applying quick changeover techniques and strategies to reduce the machine and/or line downtime.

4. Cellular Flow

When manufacturing processes are balanced, production flows continuously and customer demands are easily met. Cellular/ Flow Manufacturing links operations into a combination of resources that minimizes waste and yields a balanced process. Often this combination takes the form of a cell: a group of resources (such as equipment or workstations) placed efficiently in relation to each other so that a product travels from operation to operation with minimal waste of time and material handling. Cells may be designed for the office as well as the factory.

5. Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

VSM is a method to visually depict material and information flow through an operation. You will learn the principles and techniques of the Value Stream Mapping process and draw a map of the current state of a sample company, apply Lean- Flow concepts to develop an improved future state, draw it and identify the next steps needed to achieve the future state. Leave with the ability to map your real work processes.