Increasing Profit by Eliminating Waste
Out consultants will speed your journey to greater efficiency and sustained improvements.
Toyota Material Handling Systems has a team of experts to guide your transformation without interrupting production or customer service. A free Lean Assessment will be performed to illustrate where rapid gains can be made.
Lean Management Assessments
How It Works
We deliver improvements by developing people. This is a partnership where we train, demonstrate, then coach your people how to eliminate waste.
Introduction
We start with a conversation about your goals. We want to understand your pain points and how we can address them.
Questions include:
- Past and future challenges?
- How do you measure success?
- Historic improvement efforts?
- Customer feedback?
- Regulatory constraints?
Assessment
This free assessment at your facility will show our commitment to adding value before any formal agreement.
Assessments include:
- Identified waste
- Recommended actions
- Potential savings
Proposal
We collaborate with your leadership to define priorities, timeline, and budget that best suits the operation.
Contents include:
- List of deliverables
- Detailed Timeline
- Consultant availability
- Estimated project costs
- Requirements of on-site staff
Deployment
We collaborate with your staff through the whole process to ensure they can sustain improvements and continue your Lean Transformation after we’ve gone.
Solutions can include:
- Training
- Pilot projects
- KPI Dashboards
- Process Mapping
- Work Instructions
Lean Classes
How It Works
These are the classes we offer to build your team into a force of continuous improvement.
Lean Fundamentals
An explanation of the basic philosophy of the Toyota Production System with examples and in-class activities.
Details:
- Videos and case studies with opportunities for attendee participation.
- 8 hours
- Offered weekly
- For all levels of the organization
- Receive Lean Fundamentals Certification
Principles of 5S
Builds upon Lean Fundamentals How to evaluate and organize a work area for safety, cost reduction, and productivity.
Details:
- Videos and case studies with opportunities for attendee participation.
- 8 hours
- Offered weekly
- For managers, supervisors, team leads
- Receive Lean 5S Certification
Standardized Work
Builds upon Lean Fundamentals and 5S. Details exercises on how to create standardized work for value.
Details:
- Videos and case studies with opportunities for attendee participation.
- 8 hours
- Offered monthly
- For managers & supervisors Receive Lean 5S Certification
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