- Understand the basic principles of Lean Manufacturing and the strategic challenges for companies today

- Learn to spot dysfunctional production flows in their present state 

- Understand the meaning of the structural approach (Value Stream Management) used not just for local improvements but also to drastically reduce production time and costs 

- Understand the stages for switching from a traditional flow to a Lean flow: 

- Identify priority improvement actions (5S, Total Productive Maintenance, etc.), their organisational impact, and their phasing over time. 

Lean Manufacturing is a fundamental approach for improving operating performance, which develops the capability of the entire company to respond flexibly, quickly, and effectively to the needs of customers by:

-Eliminating activities with no added value  -
-Synchronising production flows
 -Involving everyone in the ongoing search for improvement 

In order to be effective and provide the expected gains of drastically reducing time and costs, Lean Manufacturing requires a real attack plan, provided by a global flow approach: the Value Stream Management, and not only by implementing local improvement techniques. It also requires teams to be mobilised in a global improvement dynamic. 

Productivity has developed this seminar to enable managing directors and owners to understand the boost in performance that a comprehensive, well-structured Lean Manufacturing approach can give them.