Performance Based Training

Arizona MEP offers 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, Arizona MEP 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 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 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.

Lean Methodologies

Principles of Lean Manufacturing
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.

Principles of Lean Manufacturing for Job Shops
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.

Value Stream Mapping
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.

Kaizen Rapid Improvement
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.

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.

Team Integrated Problem-Solving (TIPS)
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.