Time Wise Solutions®

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> Performance-based Training

Time Wise Solutions® is a performance-based training system that utilizes a "Learning by Doing" process and provides for the rapid infusion of best practices into any enterprise. Accepted from the boardroom to the shop floor, Time Wise integrates the training program in a unified and consistent manner. This creates a rapid enterprise-wide understanding of when value is being added and has a direct impact on the bottom line that far exceeds the usual pace of awareness training.

The Time Wise Suite of Lean Products qualifies for inclusion in the 80 hours of Training, Education and Development towards the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' (SME) Bronze, Silver and Gold Levels of Lean Certification. Trainees with minimal prior Lean work experience that successfully complete Time Wise Training have the option of applying to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers for certification at the Bronze Level. Lean Practitioners with a dossier establishing prior Lean work experience are eligible to take the Silver or Gold exams upon submitting an application to SME.

> Time Wise Suite of Products

LE101: Time Wise® Principles of Lean Manufacturing
LE101 is an accelerated learning workshop that conveys the benefits of using Lean in a make-to-stock production environment to achieve breakthrough business performance. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand the business case for continual improvement as a way to profitably meet rising customer expectations in a volatile and globally competitive market; and
	•	Understand how Lean methods simultaneously reduce total lead time and operational costs while improving service and quality.

LE102: Time Wise® Principles of Lean Manufacturing for Job Shops
LE102 is an accelerated learning workshop that conveys the benefits of using Lean in an engineer-to-order production environment to achieve breakthrough business performance. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand the business case for continual improvement as a way to profitably meet rising customer expectations in a volatile and globally competitive market; and
	•	Understand how Lean methods simultaneously reduce total lead time and operational costs while improving service and quality.

LE103: Time Wise® Principles of Lean for Shipbuilding and Aerospace
LE103 is an accelerated learning workshop with a specific industry focus that conveys the benefits of using Lean in the shipbuilding (LE103s) and aerospace (LE103a) industries to achieve breakthrough business performance. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand the business case for continual improvement as a way to profitably meet rising customer expectations; and
	•	Understand how Lean methods simultaneously reduce total lead time and operational costs while improving service and quality.

LE104: Time Wise® Principles of Lean Supply Chain Management
LE104 is an accelerated learning workshop that conveys the benefits of using Lean Supply Chain methods to achieve breakthrough business performance. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand the business case for collaborative supply chain improvement as a powerful driver of productivity, profitability and growth for all trading partners; and
	•	Understand how to practically apply Lean supply chain methods to substantially reduce total lead time and costs while simultaneously increasing the flexibility of the extended value stream.

LE105: Time Wise® Principles of Lean Six Sigma
LE105 is an accelerated learning workshop that conveys the benefits of using Lean in conjunction with Six Sigma to achieve breakthrough business performance. A model of Lean Six Sigma is presented which greatly simplifies how Lean and Six Sigma methodologies work together. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand why the Lean Six Sigma system is more effective than either stand-alone methodology;
	•	Understand where the synergy exists between Lean and Six Sigma; and
	•	Understand how to coordinate Lean and Six Sigma initiatives to achieve the best results.

LE106: Time Wise® Team Involvement Problem-Solving (TIPS)
LE106 is an accelerated skill-building workshop that trains participants how to effectively use a structured, team-based approach to eliminate the root cause of costly performance problems.

LE107: Time Wise® Principles of Lean Manufacturing for Process Industries
LE107 is an accelerated learning workshop that conveys the benefits of using Lean in a semi-continuous batch process manufacturing environment to achieve breakthrough business performance.

Specifically, the focus is on the application of Lean methods in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical, printing, and packaging industries. Key deliverables include:

	•	Understand the business case for continual improvement as a way to profitably meet rising customer expectations in a volatile and globally competitive market; and
	•	Understand how Lean methods simultaneously reduce total lead time and operational costs while improving service and quality.

LE201: Time Wise® Value Stream Mapping Event
LE201 is a Lean implementation event that involves creating a Value Stream Map (VSM) delineating the critical material and information flows within your value creating process.

The ultimate purpose of VSM is to identify high impact improvement opportunities that will drive breakthrough business performance. Material pathways include the movement of incoming raw materials through manufacturing operations to the shipping of finished goods. Information pathways include customer communications, transactions with your organization and supplier communications.

LE202: Time Wise® Kaizen Rapid Improvement Event
LE202 is a Lean implementation event that involves a series of activities which follow a structured ten-step process enabling a team to achieve rapid, action-oriented improvements identified during the Value Stream Mapping Event (LE201).

Specifically, the Kaizen event addresses individual problem areas identified by Process Mapping, using industry standard Plan-Do-Check-Act problem-solving model.

Reduction of production lead time, inventory and cost can be achieved quickly.

> Integrated Performance Technology

The Time Wise® LeanASP™ is a Web-based technology solution that enables companies to manage, implement, monitor, track, and sustain cost savings from Lean process improvements within the enterprise and across the supply chain. The Dashboard component of the LeanASP™ helps companies align critical process performance measures and employee performance and acts as an early warning system to avoid Lean improvement slippage.

This Web-based application supports and drives the Lean Transformation Methodology by providing tools to help your organization sustain improvements and maximize return on investment. The LeanASP™ delivers improvement applications with built-in flexibility to allow your staff to use the application in the way the makes sense for you. The tool is integrated with hands-on, on-site training and consulting so you have all the ingredients necessary to create and sustain improvement.