"Training for the present, Educating for the future, Developing to lead"
As a production practice that considers the elimination of waste its main goal; lean manufacturing is centered around creating more value with less work. Companies must often look beyond the shop-floor to find opportunities for improving overall company cost and performance. Lean manufacturing's key value and attitude need to be sustain continuously and improve in the long run.
How do you promote and sustain the lean process and philosophy?
The answer is training. With VIP on your side, your company has a large base of internationally trained consultants who promote manufacturing excellence.
Our Lean practice was designed to create value for manufacturers, service providers, and product developers in a variety of areas such as Lean operations, Lean Production & Lean Office Practices. We also support typical SAP manufacturing and plant maintenance operations by integrating operational performance improvement practices (KAIZEN) or continuous improvement methodologies to eliminate waste in all business processes. We support customers throughout North America, South America and Europe.
Equipped with hands-on implementation experience and our state-of-the-art Lean Learning Management System, our consultants show measurable improvements on the shop floor and beyond as the entire organization learns to embrace the “kaizen culture.” What separates us from other lean consulting and training organizations is that we provide our clients with exactly what they need to be successful.
VIP offers the following lean solutions:
- Lean Certification
- Introduction to Lean Manufacturing and The Seven Wastes
- Lean Manufacturing for the Executive
- Value Stream Mapping
- Creating Continuous Flow Manufacturing Cells
- Lean production & Inventory Management
- Lean Office
- Lean for Service Organizations
- Material Flow and Kanban
- 5S Visual Workplace
- Visual Controls
- Kaizen Events
- TMP Total (Total Productive Maintenance)
- SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) and Quick Changeover
- Mistake Proofing / Poka Yoke
- Designing Manufacturing Cells
- Designing Kaban / Pull Systems
- Lean Ergonomic Design
- Creating a Lean Manufacturing Culture
- The Extended Value Stream (Outsourcing)