Certified Lean Professional (CLP28)

Converting non-productive time into customer-focused, productive time enables any organization to grow revenue faster than cost. This course prepares participants to implement tools of the waste-minimizing Lean problem-solving methodology, resulting in lower costs, increased customer satisfaction, better on-time performance, and higher quality. Candidates will learn how to craft a data-driven business case built on root cause analysis to support process improvement recommendations.

Specific Lean concepts and tools covered include:

• Five principles of Lean culture, emphasizing employee engagement
• Eight forms of waste, and ways to measure them
• Value-added and non-value-added activities
• Flow and visual control
• Root cause analysis and Pareto analysis
• Change management and project leadership
• Kaizen and value stream mapping
• 5S and work place organization
• Mistake proofing/error proofing/poke yoke
• Standardized work
• Set-up reduction/single minute exchange of dies (SMED)
• Pull systems and Kanban signals

All sessions are packed with a mix of theory and practice, incorporating a Kaizen simulation, building a value stream map, and other hands-on activities. The program emphasizes how Lean concepts and tools work together, and why each is important. Candidates hear real examples of challenges faced during Lean implementation. They learn about the importance of using metrics to measure improvements.

The final session includes a complete program review and project progress report-out.

Certification requires passing a final exam and completing a successful Lean project at the candidate’s place of work or a qualified host company/organization (candidate must secure arrangements). Successful projects require access to relevant personnel and data.

Hours: 33.5

* Note: A CLP Plus version includes an additional four hours of one-on-one coaching. Our experience indicates that project success correlates with the level of internal expertise and support. Extra hours are invaluable to candidates who may lack internal support and/or guidance within their organizations. Coaching may take place at your location or another venue.

• Define/scope a problem and establish a goal
• Quantify a problem, collect and analyze data, and measure results
• Become an effective Lean leader and valuable team member within an organization, equipped with the Lean tools and concepts to help eliminate waste, improve on-time delivery and boost product quality

Highly motivated individuals serving in a range of positions at any type of organization, from shop-floor employees to executives

• Identification of an improvement project before first class
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

• Continuing Education Units (CEUs): TCIE grants 3.0 CEUs upon full attendance and participation of this course.
• Digital badge: Anyone who is certified and submits a satisfactory written response to TCIE-generated questions earns a digital badge.

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As a Certified Lean Professional and activity-based cost management expert, Julie helps all types of organizations improve their business performance and profitability. She does so through a variety of means: diagnosing and solving problems, guiding leaders toward specifying and quantifying previously unstated goals and objectives, cultivating the identification of priorities and related metrics, and inspiring clients to see their work with a fresh perspective. Julie’s agility and flexible approach enables her to apply business concepts in a creative way that meets unique customer needs.