Performance Based Training

[ Lean Methodologies | Machine Operator Skills Training (M.O.S.T.) ]
[ Lean Champions Coaching | Organizational and Leadership Development ]

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.

To help you sustain your initial investments and to complement our Performance Based Training solutions in Lean Methodologies, the Maine MEP uses in house expertise along with local resources to assist in organizational learning and development. Customized sessions for one-on-one coaching for your internal lean team or a broader, systemic approach to organizational development processes are available.

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
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.

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

The New England M.O.S.T.® is designed to meet the challenge of training CNC machine operators by utilizing a unique fast track training process to develop "basically trained" machine operators in a fraction of the time the traditional methods relied on in the past. In addition this training is directed at a "Non Traditional" workforce, workers with little or no experience in manufacturing. This reflect today's reality that with the decline in manufacturing over the last 10 to 15 years there are fewer people with these specific manufacturing skills.

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Lean Champions Coaching

The success of a Lean transformation and the use of Lean as a business strategy 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."

By focusing on current best practices, bringing over 200 staff years of manufacturing and lean experience , and using a broad array of resources, the Maine MEP can work with your continuous improvement practitioners. We will assist and make them position their lean efforts to meet strategic demands while continually engaging an aware workforce.

Organizational & Leadership Development

As an organization progresses through a lean transformation, new and refreshed organizational skills are required. Organization dynamics, change management, supervisory training, or performance management are only examples. The Maine MEP will work with your leadership team to determine the best approach and resource to meet your organizational development needs.