Lean Construction Workshop (Tuesday July 17, 2007)

Introducing Kaizen in Business Operations (8am - noon)
--Norman Bodek
In this Kaizen seminar author Norman Bodek presents one of Toyota's most powerful tools for Continuous Improvement. This seminar is real life and demonstrates how to do it. You will learn principles, techniques, and a structured Kaizen process. Kaizen is powerful tool to transform culture and improve processes. It develops the "Kaizen Mind" in all of your employees. The idea is that everyone in an organization re-examines their work and improves it in small ways within their control. These thousands of "Mini Kaizens" add up like raindrops forming a flood of continuous improvement.

Norman Bodek is president of PCS Press, a publishing, training, and consulting company. He discovered and published the works of Dr. Shigeo Shingo and Taiichi Ohno, the inventors of the Toyota Production System. He is co-founder of the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence and author of "Kaikaku" and "The Idea Generator". Norman Bodek is one of the most passionate, knowledgeable, and motivating personalities on the planet.

Kaizen Program Outline

1. Definitions of Kaizen

2. Principles of Kaizen

3. Essential Steps

4. Obstacles to a Creative Idea System

5. Rules of Kaizen

6. Elements of a Kaizen System

TWI in Construction Workshop (1pm - 5pm)
--Patrick Graupp and Robert Wrona
Global competitive pressures require organizations to become adaptive and relentlessly focused on execution and continuous improvement to survive. Learn how the TWI Program teaches supervisors/team leaders the skills of Job Relations (JR), Job Instruction (JI) and Job Methods Improvement (JM) in a learn-by-doing approach that requires they go to the source and observe in detail to improve the way work is performed. They will also learn how to pass these skills on to other people by engaging them to execute lean and continuous improvement at the job level. A step-by-step look at one company will demonstrate how the Job Instruction program serves as the cornerstone of their standardization process that resulted in
·   decreased time to train people to become productive,
·   improved quality,
·   fewer accidents,
·   a significant reduction in rework,
·   less tool and equipment damage, and
·  raising the production competency levels of employees.

This 4-hour hands-on Job Instruction (JI) training will include an interactive classroom demonstration of Job Instruction Training to illustrate how the TWI training methodology is delivered same as was done in the US during WWII and same as the program is also delivered by Toyota since 1951.

Specific Learning Objectives
This workshopwill provide participants with a good understanding of how the TWI Program learn-by-doing methodology teaches people the skills of Job Relations, Job Instruction, and Job Methods Improvement so they can participate in the lean improvement process to the best of their abilities. By learning how to apply these skills in their everyday work, people will be able to: solve basic people problems as they occur (Job Relations); break down jobs for instruction to quickly teach people to do a job safely, correctly and conscientiously (Job Instruction), and make simple improvements to jobs within their realms of control (Job Methods) on a daily basis as the foundation for a performance culture. Learn how to implement TWI to begin a lean initiative or reinvigorate an existing one.

Registration is outside room 103 (Kellogg Center) and begins at 6:45am.

A breakfast buffet, outside room 103 (Kellogg Center) is provided at 06:45 - 07:55am.

Snack/coffee break is provided at 9:30 am and 2:30 pm/ Lunch buffet at noon

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