Lean Manufacturing
NWIRC offers classroom education for new employees, a reintroduction of lean and continuous improvement concepts to seasoned staff, collaborative learning working groups, and on-site consultation, analysis, and implementation assistance.
Services
Lean Transformation
Consulting and onsite implementation of lean practices and tools such as 5S Visual Management, Value Stream Mapping, Setup and Changeover Reduction, Kaizen Events, Kanban, and more.
Lean Together™
A collaborative working group to build and sustain a culture of continuous improvement based on concepts from 2 Second Lean.
Read more…Lean Champion
An onsite training series for creating leaders to engage the entire organization in the basics of lean.
Toyota Kata
Training and onsite coaching to help your team learn a systematic way of solving programs – all part of a continuous improvement plan.
Read more…Employee Training
An ongoing schedule of training topics, but we can also coordinate customized and onsite training to meet the needs of your company and employees.
See the schedule…Company Benefits
- Increase production capacity
- Reduce scrap, rework, waste, and setup times
- Improve on-time deliveries
- Engage employees to become problem-solvers
Success
“Lean Together has helped our employees realize that working together as a whole group, and gathering multiple ideas from each other, makes us a stronger and more productive team. As a result, multiple new production records have been set.”
– Debbie Neal, CFO, Franklin Industries