With roots in production, Lean Rapid Process Improvement (LRPI) has proven to reduce waste by 15% to 35%.   Expect a corresponding cost reduction.  This value stream (design center, factory, line, manufacturing cell, and office), 24 to 36 hour, workshop series and its associated tool kit providee training and experience in starting lean practices.  LRPI has proven valuable in changing culture for a company, plant, and department, i.e., provide a model to lead moving the decision-making closest to the operational value stream.

During each training step, team participants learn a lean principle(s) and implementation method(s), and then apply it in the process area they are improving.  Starting with the SAE J4000 assessment, a LRPI guidance team normally defines several initial LRPI workshop projects and teams.  Including a “train the trainer” module, LRPI helps most employees learn how to implement lean practices in a “learn-do workshop” while they are making improvements that reduce cost/waste.

To develop benefits for any employee, supervisor, manager, or executive who is responsible for either learning to lead teams or to improve value stream operations, LRPI trainers / coaches present, and coach workshop participants in the application of:

1. Key lean concepts and principals, e.g., 7 waste elimination, visual enterprise/factory management, single piece flow,
2. Value stream mapping and analysis,
3. Team building,
4. Problem solving,
5. Planning and implementing improvements,
6. Business case (for capital or expense-intensive lean startup programs).

Organized in multiple workshop sessions, LRPI last 24 hours (six sessions, ½ day each) to 36 hours (nine sessions, ½ day each).  Length is project dependent

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