Course Overview

Domain
Business, Communication and Design
Format
Short Course
Duration
4 days
Fee Subsidy
Up to 90% SF Funding

Lean thinking has proven to be an effective improvement methodology over the last few decades, achieving immense results within diverse organisations and businesses.

Continuous improvement is one of the main principles of Lean thinking, which encourages the mindset of continually solving problems and challenges at the workplace, thereby increasing the value delivered to customers. This course is designed to help employees learn and apply Lean tools and techniques. Participants will acquire knowledge from classroom training sessions and be coached on applying these skills to their own Lean improvement activities at their workplace.

Who Should Attend

  • Applicable to personnel across all industries at all management and line operations levels

What You Will Learn

  • History and evolution of Lean thinking
  • 5 core principles of Lean thinking
  • 8 wastes
  • 4 types of problems
  • A3 thinking 
  • Value stream mapping
  • Root cause analysis 
  • Heijunka 
  • Pull/kanban
  • Jidoka and poka yoke
  • Standard work

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Recognise the different types of problems at the workplace
  • Apply the A3 methodology to solve a problem at the workplace 
  • Analyse problems at their root cause
  • Formulate a plan with the use of appropriate Lean tools for improvement

Teaching Team

Larry Hoo
Larry Hoo

Founder and Principal Consultant, Kaizen @ Work

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Schedule

Course Run Dates Time
Nov 2024 – Feb 2025 Run

8 Nov, 20 Dec 2024, 17 Jan & 7 Feb 2025

 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

 

Certificate and Assessment

A Certificate of Attainment (Non-credit bearing) will be issued to participants who:

  • Attend at least 75% of the course
  • Undertake and pass non-credit bearing assessment during the course

Fee Structure

The full fee for this course is S$4,905.00.

Category After SF Funding
Singapore Citizen (Below 40) S$1,471.50
Singapore Citizen (40 & Above) S$571.50
Singapore PR / LTVP+ Holder S$1,471.50
Non-Singapore Citizen S$4,905.00 (No Funding)


Note: All fees above include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.

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