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Seminar

No matter what your organization does, Lean will help you do it better. Today Lean methodology is being applied in a broad range of enterprises including manufacturing, processing, construction, healthcare, engineering, banking, and government services. Regardless of your core business, Lean will engage and inspire your workforce to continuously improve what they do and help you achieve ever better results.

Lean is derived from the operating system developed by Toyota over the last 60 years, and their unmatched success in the global marketplace in terms of value, customer satisfaction, quality, innovation, staff engagement, safety, sales and ROI is convincing testimony to the Toyota way of doing things. While Lean provides a toolbox of methods and techniques to be practiced, it is really about developing a culture of engaged Lean thinkers within your organization who will not just perform their work, but strive to make it better every day.

This interactive workshop will provide participants with an understanding of the Lean methodology and how it can apply to their own enterprises. Participants in this workshop will:

• Learn how Lean developed at Toyota and has migrated to a broad spectrum of enterprises
• Understand how Lean differs from the conventional approach to operations
• Understand the foundation, principles and goals of a Lean organisation
• Gain a general understanding of Lean “tools”
  
  • Kaizen/continuous improvement
  • Standardized work
  • Visual management / 5S
  • Waste recognition
  • Value stream analysis
  • Root-cause problem solving
  • Pull and one-piece flow
• Understand the challenges and benefits of introducing Lean within an organization
  

Instructor

Bern Roy, P.Eng., Kom Lynn Associates

Bern is a principal consultant with Kom Lynn Associates, a Vancouver based industrial engineering firm specializing in operations and facility planning for industrial and institutional clients. He has held industrial engineering positions with Canada Post Corporation and the City of Winnipeg Works and Operations Department, and for the last 17 years has been a member of the consulting team at Kom Lynn. Bern’s work includes teaching and coaching Lean methodology to his clients to assist them in minimizing waste and improving their productivity.

APEGBC is an AIBC/CES registered provider offering an AIBC-Accredited activity for 7 Non-Core Learning Units.