Workshop Overview
Unleash your inner process improvement superhero by participating in the Jacksonville Lean Consortium’s (“Lean Jax”) upcoming virtual training workshop: Eliminate the 8 Wastes with Lean Thinking on July 10, 2025!
Date and Time
July 10, 2025
8:45 AM-Noon
Location
Via Zoom
Cost
Free for Lean Jax members.
$75 for Non-Members.
Registration
Registration Opens on June 17, 2025.
Who Should Attend?
This virtual workshop is ideal for professionals and leaders across all industries committed to continuously improving how work is done for the benefit of our customers, our organizations, our teams, and ourselves.
Whether you're new to Lean or looking to deepen your expertise, this session will provide you with valuable insights and practical tools to accelerate your continuous improvement journey.
Provide attendees with the ability to:
✅ Distinguish between work tasks that are value-added, non-value-added but necessary, and pure waste.
✅ Identify specific examples of each of the 8 wastes in any process through direct observation at the Gemba.
✅ Investigate and discover the outcomes and root causes of the 8 wastes.
✅ Leverage Lean countermeasures to eliminate waste, prevent reoccurrence, and deliver impactful results!
Workshop Outline
❇️ Review of Lean Culture and Principles: Review of the aspects of a Lean culture and five core principles.
❇️ Three Categories of Work: Detailed explanation of value-added, non-value-added, and necessary non-value-added work.
❇️ Overview of the 8 Wastes: Definitions, sector-specific examples, causes, and effects of each type of waste.
❇️ “Toast Kaizen” Video: Interactive session featuring Bruce Hamilton’s award-winning video to explore the 8 wastes in a practical setting; the number one selling lean training tool in the world!
❇️ 8 Wastes Identification Exercise: Hands-on on practice to distinguish between the three categories of work and identify waste in various production and transactional work environments.
❇️ Waste Identification Techniques: Overview of Lean methods such as direct observation, time studies, value stream mapping, spaghetti diagrams, fishbone diagrams, and Pareto analysis to identify, categorize, and quantify waste.
❇️ Waste Elimination Case Studies and Impact: Real-world examples from manufacturing, support functions, construction, healthcare, financial services, IT, government, and more.
❇️ Overview of Waste Elimination Methods: Comprehensive review of techniques and strategies for eliminating waste.
Visual of waste, elimination techniques, including 6S, ECRS, Production Leveling, SMED, and Standard Work.
❇️ Next Steps: Outline a proven approach for starting and accelerating your waste elimination journey.
Workshop Summary
Don't miss the chance on eliminate headaches in your work, deliver exceptional value to your customers, and become a hero of productivity and effectiveness in your organization!
