Lean Practitioner and Lean Guide
What is Lean Practitioner and Lean Guide?
Understanding the Lean principles helps one identify what is of value to the customer. This identification feeds into removing all the “waste” and keeping only what is meaningful for the customer. You can create increasingly efficient processes with reduced costs and production time. One could say that Lean is a systematic approach to minimizing waste.
Background
Waste Elimination in a company leads to enhanced business results. Used rigorously by Toyota as TPS (Toyota Production System) and later known as Lean Manufacturing and Lean Management, this is one program that has the highest potential for transforming a company. We have conducted this course for 24 MBB Batches in the past.
Objective
To engage participants in seeing waste, understanding reasons for wastes and elimination of wastes. To provide hands-on practice on all the common lean tools and practices.
Why Benchmark Six Sigma is suited to deliver this program?
Benchmark Six Sigma is number 1 for Lean Practitioner and Lean Guide in many ways.
- In 2001, Benchmark initiated the first business excellence certification program in India. The only other provider in India at that time was Motorola University from the USA. The program has been evolving and is reviewed and revised every year. Lean Practitioner Competencies were a part of our Green Belt and Black Belt programs
- The Lean Practitioner and Lean Guide programs were initiated in 2006
- We train the largest number of business excellence professionals in Public and Corporate programs (1500+ every year)
- The large network of business excellence professionals has now crossed 40000. You can find a Benchmark Six Sigma certified professional in every large company in India
- We moderate the largest Lean Six Sigma learning community (among the top three in the world).
- Here are 15 key elements that differentiate us from others.
Offered as
a. Public Training – Calendar Program
b. Corporate Program – Standard or Customized, Continuous or Phase wise
Who Can Benefit
- Professionals who want to learn and apply the highly popular and successful Lean Principles and Practices
- Continuous Improvement Professionals
- Process Owners and Operation Managers
- Any progressive management professional who wants to bring change for the better.
- Anyone who wants to build competence that is domain independent
Salient Features
- Facilitated by Multi-Industry Expert
- 24 Hrs of Instructor-led Classroom Training
- 24 PDUs for PMI credential
- Globally Recognized Benchmark Six Sigma Certificate
- Membership of largest Business Improvement Community
Training Package
- Course Material Kit for Lean Practitioner and Lean Guide
- Data, Templates and Case Study for Analysis
- 3 Days of Instructor-led Classroom Training
- Lean Practitioner and Lean Guide Examination
- Globally Recognized Certificate with lifetime validity
Content Outline
LEAN PRACTITIONER OUTLINE
Lean Basics
- Lean Thinking, the origin of Lean Manufacturing, the focus on continuous flow.
- The journey – Batch processing, single piece flow and pure continuous flow.
- Understanding and visualizing wastes – TIMWOOD
- The meaning of Value Add and Non-Value-Add in a practical sense.
- 5S as an improvement tool.
- PDCA cycles for continuous improvement.
- Kaizens and Kaikakus
- Identifying opportunities with As-Is Value Stream Map
Defining a mini project
- Selecting a Lean Practitioner Project.
- High-level mapping of the process – SIPOC diagram.
- Creating a mini charter.
Assessing current performance
- Lean Metrics – Cycle time, Takt time, Lead time, Throughput.
- Relationship of these metrics with each other and impact on productivity.
- Calculating process cycle efficiency.
- Working with set up and change-over times, The concept of SMED.
- Detailed mapping of a process with a swim lane map or a VA-NVA mapping
- Assessing OEE
Finding the root cause of a problem
- Gemba and Genchi Genbutsu
- Listing potential causes using an Ishikawa diagram. Using a mind mapping tool for the Cause-Effect diagram.
- Validating root causes with Why- Why analysis and Pareto’s analysis
- Using huddles and Kanban boards for team engagement during the project.
Finding alternative solutions and implementing the best solution
- Using lean principles to question the As-Is Value Stream Map
- Understanding and considering visual controls, supermarkets, Kanbans, Pull systems for the future Value Stream Map.
- Heijunka, Takt, Pitch and Runner systems.
- Visual control, Andon boards, and Kanban Boards
Ensuring Sustenance of the solution and CI after implementation
- Doing Risk Analysis
- Making use of Poka Yoke
- Using Kanban, Andon, and VSM as tools for continuous improvement.
LEAN GUIDE OUTLINE
- Implementing Lean with DMAIC framework.
- The psychology behind errors and mistake proofing
- Lean Principles
- Handling resistance
- Simulation Exercise
- VSM in Service Exercise
The contents of this program can be customized based on a shadow session or pre-study done within the company.
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Lean Practitioner and Lean Guide programs with unmatched advantages
What everyone offers

Accreditation

Some / Industry Acceptance

Some Project Practice

Some Training Experience
Benchmark offers More

We started our programs in 2001 and most accreditations started later. We provide Exemplar Global accredited globally valid certificate.

We guide participants through cases from different industry sectors which come from real experience in those organizations.
What no one else offers

The facilitator is an International Expert on Business Excellence.

Training methodology that has matured with modifications since 2007

We integrated Lean and Six Sigma in our programs more than a decade ago.

Training is the beginning. We engage members with 2 questions every week to facilitate ongoing learning.

We provide additional coaching to our participants when they implement projects at their workplace.

The facilitator has significant training experience in manufacturing as well as services.

Use of multi-sensory approaches is our forte.

We explain the linkages of Lean with Six Sigma

A cross-industry platform for discussions available for a lifetime which has 53000+ members

Well integrated program with Business Excellence MBB

The facilitator has conducted hundreds of Lean Six Sigma programs.

The training is rated as excellent by thousands of participants.

You can expect the most engaging training experience ever.

Free Excel based templates for all our participants.

Access to online Calculators (Little’s Law, Takt Time, Process Cycle Efficiency and many others) that can be used anytime anywhere
Participants’ Feedback
Learner centric
The learning experience was well-curated for virtual connects and different types of learners. Examples from different sectors helped.
Thank you Vishwadeep.
Interesting Topic
It’s a totally new concept for me and it’s interesting to learn about the topics.
Feels empowered with the knowledge of Lean management
The program is designed very crisply and to the point. I was enlightened to go through this program.
Altogether a must to attend session for all
It was again a fabulous training given by Vishwdeep khatri on Lean taking every minute details into consideration along with good details and simulation practices.
Very Good Learning Experience with various tools and techniques
This program is a must-do for anyone aspiring to become a Lean practitioner.
I found VK’s Lean training program to be incredibly valuable and effective. The real-time examples provided, along with their practical solutions to various problems, made the learning process simple and engaging.
Learned various powerful Lean tools for effective process improvement and waste elimination especially the journey from current VSM to future VSM
Detailed, Engaging and simply Amazing
Vishwadeep is one of the best tutors from Benchmark Six Sigma. The way he engages everyone and gives a detailed explanation. He doesn’t hesitate to explain multiple times when you ask doubts, and he makes sure to add something funny during class so we all have a good time while we are learning. Simply amazing.
Excellent
Great insights for Business Excellence professionals to have a meaningful conversation with Organizational leaders
Lean guide and Lean Practitioner competence are designed with practical insights from current challenges of the industry. Making these time-tested methods impactful for today’s needs is at the heart of this course. I am super confident now to make a difference in the industry and be of service.