Lean Enterprise
Continuous Improvement Services
If your goal is to increase capacity, eliminate waste, shorten lead times, improve quality, reduce inventory and raise on-time shipment levels, our consultants have the broad experience in continuous improvement you need.
Lean
Consulting
MTI's Lean Enterprise consultants bring a wealth of combined
technology and manufacturing experience to every client. As experts in Value Stream
Mapping, Lean training, applied manufacturing technology and automation,
quality systems, integrated manufacturing software and plant layout, our goal
is to transform your business into an agile enterprise - from manufacturing to financial, healthcare, and government. Your company can be a stronger competitor in the global marketplace.
Lean Enterprise Services
To learn more about our Lean Enterprise services, click on the information listed below.
- Principles of Lean Enterprise
- Value Stream Mapping
- The 5S System
- Set Up Reduction
- Cellular/Flow Manufacturing
- Pull Systems/Kanban
- Total Productive Maintenance
- Value Stream Mapping in the Office
- Lean Culture
- Training Within Industry (TWI)
- Software Assessment and Selection
- RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Engineering Services
- Supplier Qualification Survey
Principles of Lean Enterprise
Discover the benefits of moving from a traditional to a Lean environment.
- Lean 101 workshop mixes live simulation with classroom presentations. Participants learn Lean techniques through a four-part production simulation. Following the workshop, your employees will have new ideas on how to improve production efficiency. Even experienced staff will benefit from the lessons in this workshop. Companies who have trained their employees in Lean techniques report dramatic improvements in quality, on-time delivery and cycle-time reduction.
- Lean 111 workshop involves a mix of classroom style learning with interactive live simulation addressing environments outside the typical manufacturing environment. At the end of the workshop the participants from process-oriented industries and from banking to healthcare will have redesigned a leaner office that improves customer and employee satisfaction and speeds the order-to-cash cycle.
Value Stream Mapping
Value Stream Mapping is a powerful tool to help companies identify and eliminate sources of waste. This intense two-day workshop is conducted at your site by Minnesota Technology, Inc. experts. Value Stream Mapping is the first step in achieving a more efficient, productive and profitable company. Participants will learn how to identify the sources of waste in the value stream and eliminate waste, prioritize activities and improve profitability. They will also develop an implementation plan that will help to successfully carry out the changes necessary to take a company from a present to a desired state map.
The 5S System
World-class companies use 5S techniques. Now your organization can benefit from this one-day workshop when Minnesota Technology, Inc. experts teach your employees the 5S System: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize through Visual Controls and Sustain. The workshop blends classroom and simulation approaches to guide participants as they transform a cluttered, disorganized production area into a clean, orderly workplace. After this intense training, your employees will have the tools they need to implement 5S practices in your company regardless of the industry.
Set Up Reduction
Now
your organization can benefit from this one-day workshop when Minnesota Technology,
Inc. experts teach your employees the Single Minute Exchange of Dies System (SMED).
The four-step Changeover Improvement Process is used to help companies design
no/low cost solutions to dramatically reduce changeover time. This, in turn, allows the firm
to meet customer demands for high-quality, low cost products, delivered quickly
and without the expense of excess inventory.
Value Stream Mapping in the Office
The office version of our most powerful productivity improvement tool! This intensive, two-day workshop is conducted at your site by MTI experts who will teach your employees how the flow of work impacts the total cost of your products and services. Find extra capacity within your design, estimating, customer service, payables, receivables, scheduling and other administrative tasks. Focus on task quality and efficiency improvement projects. Employees and managers will learn how to manage using Value Stream concepts. They will identify sources of waste in the value stream, develop a plan to eliminate non value-added activities and improve the capacity of your administrative processes.
Lean Enterprise Implementation requires cultural changes in leaders and workers. Since people tend to resist change, there are many potential stumbling blocks. A variety of tools will ensure success along the Lean journey.
The Lean Leader Development Workshop will help supervisors and managers understand the keys to success in a Lean Enterprise environment. Participants will learn tools and techniques to enhance their ability to build an empowered workforce while applying what they learn immediately. The purpose of this workshop series is to understand and address certain cultural changes required to assure a successful transformation to a lean manufacturing environment.
A successful lean enterprise is built and sustained through the actions of empowered work teams, which have the skills, information, and authority to act. This sixteen-hour project starts with individuals who are committed to a goal. The process will help team members see the importance of sharing leadership, use conflict in a positive way, understand the styles of each team member and focus on strengths, build capacity to keep improving teamwork, and develop a clear understand of team goals and set an action plan.
Sustaining a lean enterprise is 20% technical and 80% cultural. Participants in this one-day workshop will learn specific methods to develop leadership and employee involvement, along with techniques used to manage and preserve the gains created by Lean Implementation.
Training Within Industry (TWI)
TWI (Training within Industry) is a proven lean-based training program that provides the framework for employees to succeed in applying lean principles into their daily work life. It is particularly effective in leveraging the role of the supervisor or leader in conducting kaizen events on an on-going basis. TWI consists of three standardized programs:
- Job Methods (JM): Teaches supervisors how to produce greater quantities of quality products in less time by making the best use of the people, machines, and materials now available. JM teaches “the industrial engineering part of the supervisor’s job.”
- Job Instruction (JI): Teaches supervisors how to quickly train employees to do the job correctly, safely, and conscientiously. For this reason, the JI element teaches “the trainer part of the supervisor’s job.”
- Job Relations (JR): Teaches supervisors how to build positive employee relations, increase cooperation and motivation, and effectively resolve conflicts as they arise JR basically teaches the “human resource manager part of the supervisor’s job.”
Software Assessment and Selection
Save thousands of dollars, reduce stress and save time by identifying the right software for your business. Minnesota Technology, Inc. experts evaluate your company's entire software needs, as well as the software you are currently using. Then evaluate top packages on the market based on your individual needs and give you an unbiased report on the software that best serves the needs of your company.
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Engineering Services
Let MTI assist you in capturing the value of RFID technology in the planning of your RFID pilot.
Begin with the RFID Readiness Assessment to help determine your company's readiness to implement RFID technology and receive feedback in the following areas:
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General Information 
Productivity 
Customer Requirements 
Existing Infrastructure 
Automatic ID Technologies 
Current RFID System 
Business Processes 
Risk Management 
Budget 
Enterprise Resource Management 
Inventory Management
Supplier Qualification Survey
We will visit your company to interview managers and assess your quality processes and systems. During the interviews, you will learn techniques to create an efficient and cost-effective Quality Management System. The Supplier Qualification Survey can also be used as a tool to help you survey the quality systems of your suppliers. Be proactive and impress your customers with this professional, thorough assessment of your quality system.
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