Lean is a philosophy about orienting people and systems to deliver a continuous stream of value to the customer by eliminating waste. Following a Lean path, any business in any industry of any size or type can improve itself continuously over a long term period.

Started from Toyota production floor in Japan, now lean has been emerged to various environments such as administration, engineering, maintenance, hospitality, warehousing and banking services. Among the companies that have been practicing lean are Samsung, Boeing, Western Digital, Dell, ABB, Maybank and many more.

By practising lean, several main improvements can be seen such as:   

     - Improve Turn around Time (TAT)

    - Improve utilization of materials, supplies, and resource

    - Improve employee satisfaction (better place to work)

     - Ageing spare parts reduction

     - Avoid purchasing and keeping unnecessary supplies.

     - Reduce unnecessary travelling or motion     

     - Clean and organized workplace

     - Extra storage capacity

     - Improve safety aspects

In this workshop, the participants will be exposed to the Lean concept, what are the current Lean tools available and how to implement Lean in workplace effectively.