Lean

Becoming a Lean organisation involves many steps. Lean Manufacturing and Lean Services require a commitment to doing business differently. Those organisations that adopt Lean Manufacturing (Competitive Manufacturing) or Lean Services across their activities perform effectively and efficiently with unnecessary waste eliminated. Significant measurable cost, quality and delivery improvements are realised. Improved customer satisfaction and increased competitiveness are achieved through the use of Lean.

Lean Implementation Training (Click on the pdf icon to download summary)
Introduction to Lean	1 day
Lean Executive and Champion	2 days
Lean Tools and Techniques	5 days
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt	8 days
PUBLIC Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Details on the NZOQ website	10 days
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt	16 days
Competitive Manufacturing NZQA Unit Standards Training	Call	Call

Lean is a continuous improvement activity which involves a different way of thinking and the application of specific tools and techniques to create value stream focussed organisations.

At Thornley Group we provide consultancy services that enable organisations to set strategy and deploy lean in a sustainable way. We ensure that all the know-how required for sustainability is in place so that lean can continue to be successful in the long term.

Contact us to find out more about our Lean consultancy services.

To support out consultancy services, we offer training in all the relevent disciplines.

For Lean Manufacturing (competitive manufacturing) we can provide training that is NZQA recognised.  We provide ITO approved Competitive Manufacturing Unit Standards training and assessment for which we can arrange subsidies through your ITO.  All of our Lean and Six Sigma training provides the majority of the training that is required to achieve up to Level 5 unit standards and National Certificate Level 4 in Competitive Manufacturing.

Thornley Group training in Lean is designed for all levels, from senior management to shop-floor. A wide range of consulting and training programmes have been created to cover everything from strategy through to machine maintenance.

Training Programmes

In addition to the core training in Lean Operations, Thornley Group can offer tiered levels of training to either supplement a Lean Operations Implementation programme or to establish a range of lean capabilities.