Seeing the Shopfloor Training

Find problems before they find you!

This hands-on Lean training is designed to develop your ability to identify waste and inefficiencies on the shop floor. You’ll gain practical, fast-to-apply methods for spotting performance losses and uncovering hidden improvement opportunities. By learning to recognize problems in real time, you’ll be empowered to take proactive steps toward a more streamlined and high-performing operation.

We will start with a very simple video to learn the basics

Learn to see the efficiency of your shop floor

You’ll learn simple, effective methods to quickly assess the efficiency of your production processes—identifying how much of your operator’s workload is truly value-adding versus non-value-adding. These tools allow for a fast, low-effort scan of all production areas, helping you focus your improvement efforts where they matter most.

And apply them in complex real world examples

Don't just look for waste, look for unevenness and overburden, too!

While usual methods only cover “Muda”, the 7 classic types of waste:

Transport
Inventory
Motion
Waiting
Overproduction
Overprocessing
Defects

We do place an even stronger emphasis on the often-overlooked drivers of waste: Mura (unevenness) and Muri (overburden).

Unevenness and Overburden are our focus!

They are harder to see, but well worth looking for!

These two factors are often more difficult to detect than the classic forms of waste, yet they frequently serve as the underlying root causes of many visible inefficiencies. Understanding and addressing them is essential for achieving sustainable Lean improvements.

For each topic, we begin with a concise theoretical introduction, followed by practical detection methods you can apply directly on the shop floor. You’ll learn where to look and what to pay attention to, gaining a clearer view of hidden inefficiencies in your shop floor.

This is one of our key methods for company benchmarking

You will Learn:

Seeing Your Shopfloor
Quickly Estimate Value Add in Your Processes
Seeing Waste
Seeing Unevenness
Seeing Overburden
Find Problems Before They Find You

Requirements:

Lean Basic Training or equivalent level of experience is recommended.

Target Audience:

This course is ideal for anyone looking to approach problem-solving in a structured, methodical way.

Price: €1150.- ^{(excl. VAT)}

Duration: 1,5 Days (12 Hours Total)