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MAP001-Total Productive Maintenance
This course will provide an overview of the four stages of implementation of the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program. TPM training introduces concepts geared toward maintaining equipment at its peak performance, thus reducing the occurrence of unexpected and catastrophic failures. The target audience for this course includes maintenance workers and manufacturing supervisors.
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MAP007-Quick Changeover Single-Minute Exchange of Dies
This course is designed to help manufacturing employees learn about techniques to reduce process changeover times from one product to another. Specific techniques are discussed to reduce equipment downtime (waiting waste) caused by the changeover process, resulting in greater productivity and throughput. This course is designed for manufacturing supervisors and machine operators.
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MAP016-Lean Fundamentals (Short)
This course provides basic knowledge of lean process improvement. The importance of flow and the eight wastes that may be found within processes will be presented along with the Lean tools that can be used to eliminate that waste. Target audience members for this course include manufacturing shop workers.
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MAP017-Lean Fundamentals with Simulation
This course provides basic knowledge of lean process improvement. The importance of flow and the eight wastes that may be found within processes will be presented along with the Lean tools that can be used to eliminate that waste. The target audience for this course includes manufacturing supervisors and individuals serving as shop floor leads.
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MAP021-Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt provides a systematic approach to dramatically improve cost, quality and delivery by combining the strengths of today’s two most powerful business initiatives – Lean and Six Sigma – into one integrated program. The DMAIC process provides the overarching structure for project management, helping ensure solutions are sustainable. This course is designed for process improvement project leads, such as supervisors and above.
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MAP026-Lean Six Sigma White Belt
The Lean Six Sigma (LSS) White Belt course develops knowledge beyond the fundamentals of the DMAIC process and the understanding of certain LSS tools. White Belts have the knowledge needed to be assigned to a project as a full team member and are responsible for completing basic tasks on a project. This course is targeted at employees responsible for implementing Green Belt projects.
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MAP105-Training Within Industry Job Relations
Engage in the foundations of developing and maintaining positive employee relationships. Explore conflict resolutions strategies for when problems do arise. This course teaches a proven method of getting the facts, weighing options, making decisions, taking action and checking results. This training will meet two hours per day over five consecutive days. This course is targeted for any organizational employee that trains others.
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MAP106-Training Within Industry Job Instruction
This course features hands-on learning and practice that teaches essential skills for supervisors, team leaders and anyone who directs the work of others. In five two-hour sessions, supervisors not only learn a well-defined and easy-to-implement method for each skill, but also can bring in actual jobs from their worksites in a “learn-by-doing” approach. This course is targeted at any organizational employee who trains others.
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MAP108-5S Workplace Organization
This course teaches the principles of 5S (sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain) and how to apply these concepts to company work areas. This course is designed for manufacturing supervisors and shop workers.
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MAP200-Lean for Leadership (Toyota Kata, Domino Challenge)
This one-day workshop teaches participants how to deploy both the improvement and coaching Kata within an organization and provides a treatment of the Toyota Kata’s theoretical framework as well as its practical application. The workshop is not a simulation of any business process but rather is a demonstration of how the Toyota Kata applies to confronting challenging situations, including continuous improvement. The target audience for this course is C-Level leaders within the organization.
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MAP201-Value Stream Mapping
A review of how Lean Thinking can be applied to improve information-intensive processes is provided to develop the necessary foundation of understanding. This foundation is provided by making use of Value Stream Mapping – the assessment and planning tool for Lean practitioners. Additionally, specific examples are provided that describe how Lean enterprises approach particular business processes that dramatically contrast traditional organizations. Value Stream Mapping training is targeted at cross functional teams of approximately 12 trainees consisting of manufacturing supervisors, shop workers and office workers.
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MAP207-Problem Solving Workshop
This course is designed to provide a template of components to utilize with any problem-solving effort. The Eight Disciplines of Problem-solving methodology and process are presented to model the proper sequencing and application of those important problem-solving components. Participants will learn how to develop containment actions and discuss the importance of root cause analysis and corrective action using automation, mistake or error proofing, and operator training. The target audience for this course includes supervisors and individuals in a lead role within an organizational team.
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MAP208-Kata in the Classroom
Kata in the Classroom (KIC-1) is a hands-on exercise to introduce the scientific pattern of the Improvement Kata into organizational teams. Kata in the Classroom involves the activity of assembling a 15-piece cardboard jigsaw puzzle several times and experimenting with ways to do it faster and discussion of how to incorporate scientific thinking as a practical, everyday skill.
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MAP401-Supervisor Certification Course
This course provides a comprehensive curriculum to enhance the skills of current and future first-line supervisors. Upon completion of this course, certificate candidates will obtain a strong understanding of continuous improvement vs. continual improvement, problem-solving skills to improve a work process as well as employee relations, job instruction targeted at standardization, effective communication and safety in the workplace. This is a six-week course that meets multiple times over a few weeks. The supervisor certification course is designed for current shop supervisors and upcoming supervisors within an organization.
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MAP403-Lean Performance Measures
This course helps leadership understand how success of a Lean program is measured differently than traditional performance measurements. The target audience for this course is C-Level leaders within the organization.
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