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Lean program at CIMCIL

Customers are more and more demanding as regards the choice of products or services and lead times. This requires companies to supply their customers better, faster and cheaper. Remaining competitive in an increasingly demanding environment is a daily struggle. You should therefore consider Lean management program for yourself, or for your colleagues.

What is Lean management?

The Lean management philosophy is a practical way to adapt your processes in order to meet your customers’ requirements in the most efficient manner. Anything with no added value, and for which your customer is therefore not ready to pay, is regarded as ‘waste’. In essence, the Lean approach aims to ban all forms of waste in order to make operations more flexible. In short, employees are only assigned to value-adding activities.

Its effects

  • 90% reduction in the Work-in-Process (WIP)
  • 50% drop in rejects and reworking of non-compliant products;
  • 50% reduction in the surface area necessary.
  • 10 to 15% increase in productivity

(Source: The Machine that Changed the World – Womack, Jones, Roos 1990)

Lean Management program

You guessed it: Lean has become an essential approach for any company seeking to minimize lead times, defects, movements, inventory, investment and waste. That is why we offer you the opportunity to validate your knowledge of Lean through international IIBLC Lean Certification program. IIBLC has appointed CIMCIL as its official Lean Certification partner in Belgium. We organise the IIBLC theoretical exams and we coordinate the exam registrations for candidates who wish to take the exam in Antwerp. In addition, we distribute the study material and we assist the candidates during their preparation for the IIBLC exams.

The Lean method, for which sectors?

The Lean philosophy stems from the automotive industry (Toyota). This explains why it looks like it can only be applied in production environments. More and more organisations, however, understand that there can also be waste in service environments. Applying Lean principles and detecting and eliminating activities that do not add value in administrative processes, logistics and distribution, healthcare, construction, maintenance and even within public authorities, has become increasingly vital!

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