Centre for New Manufacturing

ISA - Competitive (Lean) Manufacturing

Providers

The following are a small sample of organizations that can provide training, coaching or consulting in Competitive Manufacturing and Lean Philosophies.

They are listed in alphabetical order.

ACIG (Australian Continuous Improvement Group)

ACIG (Australian Continuous Improvement Group) has been providing organisations with Continuous Improvement / Lean consulting and training for more than 15 years.

Our experience extends across a diverse range of sectors such as Manufacturing, Health, Financial Services, State and Local Governments.

Our consulting and training services include: Introduction to Lean

Lean Simulation Game
Lean Leadership
Lean Facilitator Development
Value Stream Mapping
Lean tools: 5S, One Piece, Pull Systems, Quick Changeovers
Six Sigma and TOC.
Problem Solving Tools
Plant and Office Layout
1 Page Reporting
Lean Accounting

To find out more contact Mark Ley at mark@acig.com.au

Corporate Partners: sustainable results through people and process

Corporate Partners (CP) is a group of business change consultants. The team has had extensive senior experience in manufacturing businesses (including operations, general management, divisional management and ownership).

CP seek to assist a business apply best practice in their operations, and Lean is one of a number of approaches to apply best practice, these principles are taught and applied in our client’s businesses.

CP has observed that many organisations follow fads in modern management and often fail to understand the real needs of their business. Lean comprises many tools - many of which can be easy to apply, but applied out of context, make little difference to the bottom line. Corporate Partners focus is on process rather than just tools.

In consultation with senior management CP seek to understand what the key business objectives are (as perceived by key stakeholders), and then assist those in the business to deploy those objectives through the whole organisation. This process is often called Visual Workplace Management (VWM).

Major Clients include:

Crane Copper Tube
BlueScope Steel
George Weston Foods
Seawind Catamarans
Iplex Pipelines
Orford Refrigeration
QMI Industries
ALC Industries
Unomedical

For more information, contact Peter Veal at pveal@corporatepartners.com.au or visit www.corporatepartners.com.au

CTPM Australasia

CTPM Australasia is a membership-based organisation established in 1996 with the charter to develop, promote and advance the knowledge and practice of TPM and TPM3 - Australasian Lean.

TPM3 - Australasian Lean is a proven Australasian approach to applying the principles and practices of the Toyota Production System. It is unique from traditional Lean in that it:

Initially focuses on equipment performance and reliability recognising that if your equipment and people aren’t working well, frustrations run high and attempts to introduce Flow and reduce Waste in the Value Streams through Lean thinking becomes unsustainable;
Provides rapid returns on investment through strategically driven cycles of ongoing improvement activity supported by key performance measures which act as ‘drivers’ for improving overall company performance;
Reduces frustrations and achieves engagement of all employees generating a significant positive impact on safety and morale;
Promotes a positive behaviour change of the whole workforce with significant benefits for Customers, Employees and Shareholders; and
Takes the mystery out of integrating all the principles, tools, and concepts from traditional Lean Production, cutting through all the confusion and providing an approach that works.

CTPM and its membership continue to grow. There are now more than 20,000 company employees covered by CTPM membership and over 30 sites spanning 14 Industry Groups from Manufacturing, Mining, Processing, Utilities and Service companies currently progressing their TPM3 – Australasian Lean journey to World Class Performance.

CTPM became a Registered Training Organisation on the 17 May 2007. We are registered to provide:

MCM30104 Certificate III in Competitive Manufacturing MCM40104 Certificate IV in Competitive Manufacturing BSB41004 Certificate IV in Business (Frontline Management)

Our approach is to link the training and assessment for Competitive Manufacturing Certificate III and IV to our TPM3– Australasian Lean journey where employees, once enrolled, will be assessed for the required units while they are Team Members of (Cert III), or Team Leaders of (Cert IV) TPM3 Teams.

The benefits for companies taking this approach rather than a traditional training approach are very significant. It allows their employees to be formally recognised with a National Qualification as they contribute to the companies strategically driven improvement initiative, rather than just complete a series of often ad-hoc projects to satisfy their training requirements.

For further information about CTPM please contact Simon Hodgson at simon.hodgson@ctpm.org.au

Innoven

Innoven is a performance driven education solutions provider that customises programs and services to meet specific client needs.

Innoven's philosophy is that education solutions should be aligned to generating performance improvement for individuals, organisations and industry. It focuses on resolving core issues within the workplace via an educational and development approach with an emphasis on research and generating sustainable change.

Innoven builds ongoing relationships with individual clients and industries to ensure critical needs are addressed and strategic solutions can be practically applied.

Services: Cert. III, Cert. IV & Diploma in Competitive Manufacturing; Leadership; OHS

For more information contact John Bursill at jbursill@gotafe.vic.edu.au

Lean Capabilities International Pty Ltd

'Lean Thinking' is a business strategy for organisations to improve their practices and processes to become more effective and competitive in the market place. It applies to all parts of all organisations. Lean not a short-term project!

Lean Capabilities International runs public and in-house 'Lean Thinking' workshops that take participants on a 'Lean Journey' from traditional practices through to world-class practices via a very practical, hands-on, 3-part simulation (with Leggo blocks), and associated activities. This simulation is a well proven accelerated way for people to learn the Lean continuous improvement concepts, and understand how they fit together as an overall, yet simple system. A key focus is on the Leading & Managing Change aspects that are necessary for effective and sustained positive results to the organisation, including its profits and cash-flow. One of the topics we cover is 'How to implement Lean in an organisation that has no time to implement Lean'.

Lean Capabilities International has a team of passionate, expert Lean Coaches that are also available to organisations to coach, mentor, empower and motivate people at all levels within the organisation to become skilled in implementing Lean practices into their specific workplace themselves. Rather than trying to do Lean 'to' the organisation, Lean Capabilities Coaches assist the organisation to take on Lean Thinking. This engagement of the employees develops accountability and sustainability.

Other related services are available to help organisations accelerate along their Lean journey, including conducting Lean Best Practice Assessments and audits, and identifying areas for improvement within the organisation to assist it in keeping on track with implementation.

For more information please contact Dennis Keay at dkeay@leancapabilities.com

LEAN Rt

LEAN Rt was established by SIRF Roundtables to specialise in working with site managers to establish a Lean/Competitive Manufacturing culture in their workplace.

Our services include one or two day training programs such as:

5s
Quick Changeover/SMED
Root Cause Analysis
Mistake Proofing
7 Quality Tools
Value Stream Mapping
Reliability for Operators
Process Control
Pull Systems
Standardization
Planning and Scheduling

We also provide accredited training in Certificate III and Certificate IV in Competitive Manufacturing – an 18 to 24 month Government subsidised program which we deliver on site.

For companies with less than ten people wanting to do the training we organise a cluster with other nearby companies to ensure that the training is onsite and affordable.

For more information please contact Joanne Law at joanne.law@sirfrt.com.au

Luzerne

Are you committed to continually improving your company? Do you recognise areas that can be improved possibly in production, delivery times, inventory systems, quality and customer service? Are you setting the best KPI’s for your business and monitoring them diligently? Luzerne and LEAN may have the answer! At Luzerne, we can reduce the cost of your processes increasing your profitability by analysing your systems and influencing the culture of your company to think LEAN.

Luzerne consultants have used Lean Philosophies in the following industries.

Food
Automotive
Heavy Transport
Medical
Plastics

However, they can be used in almost any industry/application including Finance, Consumer Goods, Retail and Government Organisations. Some of the ways we address the issues that companies commonly see and the tools used to improve these issues are listed below.

Overproduction Demand Analysis
Transportation Process Flow Diagram, Layout
Waiting Scheduling, Load Leveling
Inventory Red Tag Program, 5S
Motion Metrics, Layout Drawings
Over Processing Design Analysis, Benchmarking
Defects Quality Analysis, Kaizen, Root Cause Analysis

At Luzerne we use tailored programs to work with your people to think LEAN. This culture will increase profitability and quality performance of your organisation.

For more information please contact Ben Murphy at ben@luzerne.com.au or Sascha Humphreys at sascha@luzerne.com.au

Optim

Optim was formed in 1993 to identify, deliver and support business improvement strategies for manufacturing and service sector industries. Optim’s mission is to create an environment in client companies where each of the stakeholders can learn, work and prosper together.

We guarantee productivity and service improvement and we transfer ownership of the improvement process to our clients.

Why Optim?

We at OPTIM have over the past decade seen the need for an all Australian approach to continuous improvement to satisfy the specific needs of our culture and industries. We have taken the proven international continuous improvement ideas and techniques and developed them into simple, down to earth, practical approaches that people can feel comfortable applying and using.

Why our approaches work so well

We have researched and developed interactive processes and approaches to suit Australian Industry and its Employees. Our approaches specifically accommodate issues such as: small diverse markets, small runs, short lead-times, old equipment, limited capital available, limited resources and time for continuous improvement. Much of the imported training material is deadly boring, assumes unlimited resources and years to implement and targets issues not relevant in Australia.
We combine processes that have traditionally been taught as separate entities. This combining gives employees the full scope to unleash their creativity, giving results never dreamt of as being possible.
All training is through games and simulations which are then applied immediately to real business issues. OPTIM facilitates the process to successful completion.

Major Clients include:

Coca Cola
Arnotts Biscuits
Master Foods
Davey Pumps
Amcor

For more information please contact Ray Clark at ray@optim.com.au

TexSkill/ The Institute for Lean Systems

In response to demand for lean education in Australia, TexSkill and American lean facilitators, The Institute for Lean Systems have committed to supplying the very best in lean education to Australian Industry.

TexSkill/ILS are leading providers of accredited vocational lean transformation and workplace skill development programs in Australia. Focussing on a ‘whole of business approach’, TexSkill has provided lean education and training to more than 15 companies nationally including Bonds, Viscount Plastics and Frigrite.

The TexSkill/ILS approach couples the human systems with the technical skills needed to create a lean culture. The team is committed to helping an organisation realise the benefits of process improvement, and to develop the people needed for the sustainability of a 'learning' organisation.

From complete organisation transformation to programs tailored specifically to individual company needs, TexSkill/ILS can help you develop the skills needed to create and an organisation focused on continuous improvement.

For more information please contact Karen Abberfield at karen.abberfield@texskill.com.au or Ray Littlefield at ray.littlefield@theleanway.com

Vative

Vative can streamline your business using methodical Lean tools. Turn key solutions in Lean Strategic Business Analysis, Lean Line Design, Process Optimisation, Lean Equipment Design and Manufacture of Special Purpose Machines.

These methods apply to all industries including Manufacturing, Logistics, Fast Food, Cleaning Services, Nursing, Restaurants, Events, Customer Queuing systems and much more. Currently servicing major clients such as Robert Bosch, Mackay Multilink, NAB, Kangan Batman TAFE and many others.

Vative systems are developed using Lean Principles, international experience and 16 years of industry know how. If you have a system, we are likely to have an improvement! We work with your people to achieve sustained results.

For more information, contact Steven Farrugia at Steven.Farrugia@vative.com.au