A fresh Lean consultancy approach

Transform your team with our Lean solutions

• Duration: 3-5 days, (onsite, even at customer's premises)
• Audience: Large workgroup (3 – 8 people, depending on customer size)
• Key features:
  • Utilisation analytics: Analyse and optimize bottleneck processes
  • Process improvement: Implement cutting-edge Sandvik Coromant tooling solutions for efficiency
  • Collaborative results: Present and discuss findings directly with your team
  • Strategic decisions: Determine the next steps and prioritise key areas for improvement

Optimise your production with our expert solutions

• Key features:
  • Focused Lean activities: Engage in short, impactful sessions covering various Lean topics
  • Direct-sell products: Access our ready-to-use, standard Lean products
  • Workgroup empowerment: Our goal is to help your team find tailored solutions
  • Collaborative results: Present and discuss activity outcomes directly with your team
  • Customised outcomes: Tailored to your unique needs and situation

Drive lasting change with our Lean expertise

• Long-term support: Benefit from ongoing change support and in-depth investigations
• Exclusive participation: Engage a select group of Sandvik Coromant participants
• Behavioral transformation: Focus on changing standard shopfloor behaviors with a production-centric approach
• Design support: Enhance your processes and production design
• Core LEAN elements:
  • KAIZEN
  • Pull-Production
  • Heijunka
  • 5S
  • Shopfloor Management
  • Setup/SMED
  • Visual Management
  • JIT/JIS

Classes format and timeline:

• Lean A class - Shop floor efficiency
  • Duration: 1 day / 8 hours
  • Formant: Onsite workshop at Sandvik Coromant's or customer's premises
    
    
• Lean S class - Process improvements through lean principles and tools
  • Duration: 3 weeks / 24 hours
  • Format: Online training with interactive exercises, individual tutoring and remote support
    
    
• Lean X class - Increase shop floor efficiency and improve processes
  • Duration: 6 weeks / 56 hours
  • Format: Online lessons, exercises and individual remote tutoring combined with onsite training and support

Certification:

Upon completion of the course, participants may be required to pass a certification exam to demonstrate their understanding and application of Lean principles.

Each class leads to a Lean Belt certification, typically recognised by employers as evidence of an individual’s knowledge and ability to contribute to Lean initiatives within an organisation:

• Lean A class - Lean White Belt: Basic knowledge
• Lean S class - Lean Yellow Belt: Intermediate knowledge
• Lean X class - Lean Green Belt: Advanced knowledge to lead Lean initiatives 

Purpose:

• Share knowledge effectively
• Revisit the lean production concept
• Prepare for change processes

Topics:

• Role-play scenario between a supplier, a customer and the production side
• Fundamentals of lean-thinking

Elements:

• 5S
• Visual management
• Role of raw and WIP stock levels
• Team play
• Roles within production

Purpose:

• Provide introductory training for beginners to Lean principles
• Offer foundational knowledge of Lean tools
• Equip participants to apply Lean methods
• Focus on enhancing organizational processes

Topics:

• Interactive exercises with transferable mini projects and case studies
• Learn how to identify and eliminate waste in processes, improve workplace organisation, and implement standard work processes to increase efficiency and reduce errors
• Learn how to use visual management tools to monitor and improve processes

Elements:

• Introduction to Lean principles and methodology
• Value stream mapping
• 5S workplace organisation
• Standard work processes
• Visual management
• Mistake-proofing and error-proofing

Purpose:

• Provide comprehensive training on intermediate/advanced Lean principles
• Equip participants with essential Lean tools
• Focus on applying Lean methods to real-world scenarios
• Enhance processes within organisations
• Increase organisational efficiency

Topics:

• Business project format, available both online and onsite
• Comprehensive training which Includes lectures, exercises, and project guidance
• Waste identification in processes
• Efficiency improvement, eliminating non-value-added activities and streamlining operations
• Achieve greater productivity and customer satisfaction
• Data mastery to identify improvement opportunities
• Implement and sustain Lean initiatives in organizations

Elements:

• Introduction to Lean principles and methodology
• Value stream mapping
• Continuous improvement processes
• Lean metrics and data analysis
• Root cause analysis
• Lean leadership and change management
• Mistake-proofing and error-proofing