1st Edition

The Lean Expert Educating and Elevating Lean Practitioners Throughout Your Organization

By Joseph Niederstadt Copyright 2015
    172 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
    by Productivity Press

    172 Pages
    by Productivity Press

    The Lean Expert: Educating and Elevating Lean Practitioners Throughout Your Organization outlines a method that can help organizations engage associates and empower them to achieve "expert status" in the nine core principles of Lean. By implementing the Lean Discipline Expert process detailed in the book, companies will demonstrate to their associates that they believe they are the organization’s greatest assets, while empowering them to make lasting improvements to the organization.

    The book provides a robust and proven process for creating a Lean culture. It outlines a method, with defined steps, for the development of Lean Discipline Resource People that will help associates achieve "expert status" in the core Lean principles of 5S–Visual Management, Value Stream Mapping, Standard Work, Total Productive Maintenance, Quick Changeover, Error Proofing, Process Problem Solving, Material Management, and Continuous Improvement.

    You will be able develop Lean strategies, create a Master Schedule, initiate activities for supporting goals and objectives, and complete a Train-the-Trainer class as well as achieve facilitation skills to teach, communicate, guide, and lead Lean overview training as well as comprehensive subject-matter training. In addition, you will understand how the Lean Discipline Expert process can help to support associate involvement at all levels and learn where and how the nine principles overlap and interact. By engaging and empowering various levels of associates throughout the organization, you will provide strength and ownership for your business and, most importantly, your associates.

    The book includes access to additional resources on the book’s page at www.crcpress.com. It includes a tracking mechanism for monitoring candidate progress, facilitation feedback forms, LDE checklists, and certificates of accomplishment you can use to acknowledge associates that achieve Lean Discipline Expert status.

    Introduction to the Lean Discipline Expert Process
    Selecting Lean Discipline Expert Candidates
    Candidate Checklist, Look Across Chart, Facilitation Feedback & Recognition
    Lean Discipline Expert (LDE) 5S-Visual Management
    LDE Value Stream Mapping
    LDE Standardized Work (Cyclical & Non-Cyclical)
    LDE Total Productive Maintenance
    LDE Error Proofing
    LDE Process Problem Solving
    LDE Material Management
    LDE Continuous Improvement
    The Lean Library

    Biography

    Joseph Niederstadt