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Course Outline

Some forms of process improvement can take time. Breakthrough Thinking is a method of delivering significant improvements immediately. This programme is a highly interactive workshop to experience how simple this can be achieved. Throughput times can be halved, waste can be significantly reduced, yields increased and Customer Service levels dramatically increased. Attendees are part of a simulation exercise to maximise profits given the constraints of the exercise. They will understand techniques that can be implemented immediately in their work environment. This programme is suitable for all industry sectors and can be tailored to suit individual businesses.

Course Content

• What is Breakthrough Thinking?

• What is Lean Thinking?

• Understanding your process - Process Mapping

• Beat Rate - What is it? Why is it important?

• Theories of Constraints - Identify & Feed the Constraint

• Waste Identification - What are the different types of wastes?

• Designing the ideal process - Utilising the 5S concepts

• Identifying and developing key competencies for key roles

• The importance of Measurement

• Practice, Achieve & Comply

• Perform, Breakthrough!

Who Should Attend?

This programme is designed for natural work teams, groups of engineers, managers or supervisors who wish to deliver significant improvement in their work areas. A process can be either design, manufacturing, transactional or service based. Senior Managers are also recommended to attend to review the benefits of running this programme in-house as part of a change management programme.

Course Outline

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