
Lean Shop Floor Training (for beginners)
Arm your front line staff with the tools and techniques required to minimize waste by applying and sustaining lean principles and practices.
The Lean Shop Floor Series is designed and developed in a very simple way so that the shop floor staff with little or no formal education can understand. When a staff member completes all the 8 modules, he/she can be awarded a certificate.
Your Instructor

Vishnu Rayapeddi is a management executive with over 26 years of experience in End-to-end Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Operations Management, Strategic Planning, Business/Operational Excellence, and Process Re-engineering/Improvement.
Vishnu is a pioneer in Lean Management, combining the power of Lean Thinking, TOC, Six Sigma, TQM, TWI, Balanced Scorecard, cGMP, and other best-class methodologies like DMAIC, Value Stream Mapping, Root Cause Analysis, 5S, Quick Changeovers, Quality and Reliability, TPM, Visual Management, Standard Work, Pull, JIT, and Kanban.
Vishnu has worked in Pharma Manufacturing and FMCG Supply Chain environments for over 21 years with some of the most reputed organisations in New Zealand and India, including Unichem Laboratories, Aristo Pharmaceuticals, Intas Pharmaceuticals, Standard Medical & Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Fonterra, George Weston Foods (part of AB Foods) and others. In the past 6 years, Vishnu has been providing consulting, training, coaching and mentoring services in the Operational Excellence arena.
Course Curriculum
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StartModule 1. Apply Lean Practices
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StartModule 2. Apply 5S Procedures
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StartModule 3. Undertake Root Cause Analysis
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StartModule 4. Apply costs factors to work practices
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StartModule 5. Apply Quick Changeover Procedures
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StartModule 6. Apply Just in Time Concepts
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StartModule 7. – Apply TPM Principles
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StartModule 8. Sustaining process improvements