The Program

• 7 days of instruction spaced approximately two weeks apart and including the SME exam day.
• Provides Lean training and experience to those individuals who then can play the roles of “Lean Champions” for their organizations with a curriculum comprised of 32 hours of classroom and 24 hours of project application. Participants earn a certi cate of completion.
• The training will be combined with tours of local companies employing best practices in order to demonstrate and visualize Lean techniques in practice.
• Participants receive and must read the following texts: Lean Thinking by James Womack and Daniel Jones, Gemba Kaizen by Masaaki Imai, Lean Production Simpli ed by Pascal Dennis and Learning to See by Mike Rother and John Shook. An additional text, Toyota Kata, by Mike Rother is also included. In addition, instructional manuals that re ect the classroom presentations will be provided.
• A three-hour test from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers based on the instructional material and the required texts is administered at the end of the program where participants demonstrate understanding of the Lean Body of Knowledge. This certi ed test completion along with additional project hours can be applied towards a Bronze Level Certi cation, and career progression for silver and gold certi cation (listed at www.sme.org).