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Transitioning to Lean

Using the Shingo Model and Guidelines

April 4-5, 2012 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Does your lean need reviving? Is your lean limping along, missing its potential for greater efficiency and profitability? NC State's Lean experts have created a workshop to help you reinvigorate your Lean program using the Shingo Model.

Day One of this event will immerse you into Lean fundamentals, guidelines, and criteria and give you the foundation you need to inspire and lead your group, plant, hospital, company, or military unit to world-class performance.

Day Two is a tour of B/E Aerospace. This free tour is available on a pre-registration/pre-approval basis. Register with Heather Mitchell at 919-513-0488 or heather_mitchell@ncsu.edu

Participants Will:

  • Become familiar with the Shingo model, guidelines, and criteria and how they can transition your organization to a sustainable lean system
  • Learn the correct questions to ask in your environment to successfully navigate the Shingo process
  • Understand the cultural aspects of continuous improvement, ownership and employee
    empowerment to continuously improve their work zones
  • Review the structured approach to the "Shingo Path to Excellence"
  • Tour Shingo level facility B/E Aerospace in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on day two

Recommended For:

Leaders starting a lean transformation, from upper-level managers to production engineers to plant managers, will benefit from learning how the Shingo approach can increase efficiency, increase effectiveness, and improve productivity. The practical approach will also benefit employees on the front lines of continuous improvement, such as front-line supervisors, lean facilitators, and quality managers.