• 5S Manufacturing
• 5S Office
• Value Stream Mapping
• Quick Changeover (SMED)

The 5S Corporate Office Business Solution will help you develop an exceptional 5-S office kaizen program in an office environment that puts your organizational development ahead of your competition. This solution package helps you assess your needs and select workshops focused on improving your current or new 5-S area.

Lean organizations know that for a 5S program to be successful there needs to be implementation throughout all areas of the business. Marketing, design, accounting, engineering, and other departments benefit from 5-S just as much as the shop floor. We understand the importance and difficulties of transferring a 5S program to the knowledge worker. This solution is great for companies wishing to begin or sustain an Office 5S program.

Train knowledge workers not only on the principles of 5S, but empower them to take ownership from implementation through to maintaining their office area and office spaces. We provide students with easy to use forms to utilize in class to assist in the auditing of a location’s 5S, tracking of unused items by 5S red tagging, and tracking improvements.

The Value Stream Mapping Corporate Business Solution provides all the information, materials and techniques needed to effectively implement your Value Stream Mapping Program. It contains three full days of activities, and is structured around a teach-do format. This allows the scope of analysis to be large enough to develop a comprehensive improvement plan.

For the Value Stream Mapping Program to be successful it has to be effective in how it is structured and delivered. Developing a Value Stream Map is just the beginning of a more involved improvement program. Because of this, the VSM program is structured around a full three-day training and analysis schedule. The Facilitator is provided with information on preparing for the event, facilitating the event and leading the creation of an implementation plan from the value stream mapping exercise. Each participant is provided the content, materials and tools to create maps and develop a process improvement plan. The VSM solution is action-oriented and guides the participants through a process of analyzing the company with the Value Stream Mapping Tools.

In today’s business environment there is an increasing need to become more agile to accommodate the unique needs of your customers. One of the best tools to increase flexibility and agility is the use of SMED methodology. SMED, stands for "single minute exchange of die". SMED reduces setup times so that you will be able to accommodate shorter lead-times and higher variety of products while increasing profit margins.

The Quick Changeover Corporate Business Solution provides all the information, materials, and techniques needed to effectively lead your own SMED Quick Changeover Program. We know that for your Quick Changeover Program to be effective it has to be successful over time. The Solution is structured around a full five-day training schedule, and provides the materials needed to facilitate and implement SMED principles to ensure success. The Solution is action oriented and provides you with the structure to make sustainable setup reduction a reality.