Are your team member's good ideas getting put into action?

Continuous or Continual Improvement is a philosophy evidenced by incremental activities to make products, processes and systems better, even when no known problems exist. Continuous improvement does not have an end. Opportunities exists in all operations and systems to reduce waste and increase efficiencies. Organizations need a systematic approach to generating and capturing ideas, checking them out, verifying them on a small scale, implementing them fully and monitoring results.  

On-site classes relate directly to your product and build on existing systems and procedures.   Through group activities and involvement, class participants gain skills needed to make real improvements. 

Continuous Improvement Participants will be able to:

	Keep an open mind for continuous improvement
	Describe an environment open to taking improvement action
	Explain teamwork as part of the improvement process
	Recognize systematic approaches for continuous improvement
	Apply tools/techniques - soft, analytical, basic statistical
	Relate the role of creativity in continuous improvement
	Identify improvement data, information and resources
	Plan, experiment, study/analyze improvement changes
	Establish baseline data and tracking mechanisms
	Minimize risk of hasty or poorly evaluated changes
	Determine verify processes
	Implement, confirm, validate and monitor improvement
	Identify & implement preventive actions–mistake proofing

Class time is 16 hours with additional coaching available.