Performance Based Training

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Time Wise Solutions® is a performance-based training system that utilizes a "Learning by Doing" process and provides for the rapid infusion of best practices into any enterprise. Accepted from the boardroom to the shop floor, Time Wise integrates the training program in a unified and consistent manner. This creates a rapid enterprise-wide understanding of when value is being added and has a direct impact on the bottom line that far exceeds the usual pace of awareness training.

The Time Wise Suite of Lean Products qualifies for inclusion in the 80 hours of Training, Education and Development towards the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' (SME) Bronze, Silver and Gold Levels of Lean Certification. Trainees with minimal prior Lean work experience that successfully complete Time Wise Training have the option of applying to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers for certification at the Bronze Level. Lean Practitioners with a dossier establishing prior Lean work experience are eligible to take the Silver or Gold exams upon submitting an application to SME.

Benefits of Lean Manufacturing:

       • Shrinks lead times
       • Saves turnover expenses
       • Increases sales growth
       • Reduces set-up times
       • Avoids unnecessary equipment expense
       • Multiplies inventory turns
       • Impacts your bottom line

Conduct our free Lean Assessment to determine the best next steps for your organization. Once completed, you can determine your next steps for improvement.

Lean Methodologies

LE101: Time Wise® Principles of Lean Manufacturing

LE101 is an accelerated learning workshop that conveys the benefits of using Lean in a make-to-stock production environment to achieve breakthrough business performance. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand the business case for continual improvement as a way to profitably meet rising customer expectations in a volatile and globally competitive market; and
	•	Understand how Lean methods simultaneously reduce total lead time and operational costs while improving service and quality.

LE102: Time Wise® Principles of Lean Manufacturing for Job Shops
LE102 is an accelerated learning workshop that conveys the benefits of using Lean in an engineer-to-order production environment to achieve breakthrough business performance. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand the business case for continual improvement as a way to profitably meet rising customer expectations in a volatile and globally competitive market; and
	•	Understand how Lean methods simultaneously reduce total lead time and operational costs while improving service and quality.

LE103: Time Wise® Principles of Lean for Shipbuilding and Aerospace
LE103 is an accelerated learning workshop with a specific industry focus that conveys the benefits of using Lean in the shipbuilding (LE103s) and aerospace (LE103a) industries to achieve breakthrough business performance. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand the business case for continual improvement as a way to profitably meet rising customer expectations; and
	•	Understand how Lean methods simultaneously reduce total lead time and operational costs while improving service and quality.

LE104: Time Wise® Principles of Lean Supply Chain Management
LE104 is an accelerated learning workshop that conveys the benefits of using Lean Supply Chain methods to achieve breakthrough business performance. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand the business case for collaborative supply chain improvement as a powerful driver of productivity, profitability and growth for all trading partners; and
	•	Understand how to practically apply Lean supply chain methods to substantially reduce total lead time and costs while simultaneously increasing the flexibility of the extended value stream.

LE105: Time Wise® Principles of Lean Six Sigma
LE105 is an accelerated learning workshop that conveys the benefits of using Lean in conjunction with Six Sigma to achieve breakthrough business performance. A model of Lean Six Sigma is presented which greatly simplifies how Lean and Six Sigma methodologies work together. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand why the Lean Six Sigma system is more effective than either stand-alone methodology;
	•	Understand where the synergy exists between Lean and Six Sigma; and
	•	Understand how to coordinate Lean and Six Sigma initiatives to achieve the best results.

LE106: Time Wise® Team Involvement Problem-Solving (TIPS)
LE106 is an accelerated skill-building workshop that trains participants how to effectively use a structured, team-based approach to eliminate the root cause of costly performance problems.

LE107: Time Wise® Principles of Lean Manufacturing for Process Industries
LE107 is an accelerated learning workshop that conveys the benefits of using Lean in a semi-continuous batch process manufacturing environment to achieve breakthrough business performance.

Specifically, the focus is on the application of Lean methods in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical, printing, and packaging industries. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand the business case for continual improvement as a way to profitably meet rising customer expectations in a volatine and globally competitive market; and
	•	Understand how Lean methods simultaneously reduce total lead time and operational costs while improving service and quality.

LE201: Time Wise® Value Stream Mapping Event

Time Wise® Value Stream Management System

LE201 is a Lean implementation event that involves creating a Value Stream Map (VSM) delineating the critical material and information flows within your value creating process.

The ultimate purpose of VSM is to identify high impact improvement opportunities that will drive breakthrough business performance. Material pathways include the movement of incoming raw materials through manufacturing operations to the shipping of finished goods. Information pathways include customer communications, transactions with your organization and supplier communications.

LE202: Time Wise® Kaizen Rapid Improvement Event
LE202 is a Lean implementation event that involves a series of activities which follow a structured ten-step process enabling a team to achieve rapid, action-oriented improvements identified during the Value Stream Mapping Event (LE201).

Specifically, the Kaizen event addresses individual problem areas identified by Process Mapping, using industry standard Plan-Do-Check-Act problem-solving model.

Reduction of production lead time, inventory and cost can be achieved quickly.

Training Within Industry (TWI)

The “Missing Link” in Your Lean Training Journey: How to achieve standard work, sustain the gains made by Lean, increase productivity, improve morale, and reduce training time.

TWI consists of three standardized programs that teach the essential skills needed by all supervisors and team leaders to create the culture to lead an organization through a Lean Transformation and the skills necessary to sustain the impacts of a Lean Transformation. These TWI “J” programs are Job Instruction Training (JI), Job Methods Training (JM), and Job Relations Training (JR).

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Mobile Outreach Skills Training (M.O.S.T.)

DO YOU NEED SKILLED EMPLOYEES? The Mobile Outreach Skills Training® (M.O.S.T.) program trains people with little or no prior manufacturing experience, in the basics of manufacturing operations in a fraction of the time of traditional programs.

M.O.S.T.® is designed to address the critical need for qualified manufacturing employees including CNC machine operators. The training can be applied to new hires, as well as incumbent employees to advance their existing skills.

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Lean Champions Training

The success of a Lean project implementation is directly related to the focus of management’s mission, a steadfast plan for improvement, and a team of individuals who will accomplish the task at hand - to improve the bottom line and increase profitability. This doesn’t happen by itself. "Champions are made not born." This twelve (12) week Lean Champions Series, designed for corporate champions as well as for participants, offers the content, drive, and support needed for a successful Lean implementation.