Cultivate Lean Experts Within Your Organization!

Help your company build internal capacity by learning the tools for systematic waste elimination. 

In addition, The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Lean Enterprise Certification Program (LECP) course will give you and your employees opportunity to: 

 

• Attain valuable skills recognized across the industry. 
• Share and gain Lean knowledge through mentoring with other company leaders.
• Help weed out the Deadly Wastes that equate to D-O-W-N-T-I-M-E.
• Earn  a nationally recognized Lean Bronze credential with an SME standards exam.
• Become "World Class" through high value workforce training.
• Experience first applications at local manufacturing firms.

WHEN:  November 9 (2016) - January 24 (2017). Exam review will be on january 31st, and the online exam will be held on February 7th.

WHERE: Flathead Valley Community College

Course Topics

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WHY 10 WEEKS? To attain an SME Lean Bronze Certificate each participant must complete 80 hours of education and training. This course includes required readings where specific Core Reference Materials are gleaned for the exam, and practice exams will be given to help prepare you and keep you on course. 

WHAT TO EXPECT: MMEC delivers the training and proctors the exam for up to twenty participants (may be from a mix of firms). In addition to classroom instruction, a minimum of 15 practical hours are designed to have participants apply their training to help identify and address improvement opportunities at a host organization, pre-arranged through MMEC. Participation by multiple staff is encouraged to enrich classroom interactions and increase the implementation success back at your home facility.

Participants will be given reading assignments (see books needed below) and homework questions for sessions 2 - 8. Sessions 3 – 9 will have quizzes for previously covered material. Practice exams will be given and reviewed to help prepare participants for the SME final exam. Full participation is expected. The cost of the exam is NOT included in the tuition fee.

Download weekly agenda here.

COST:  $2500 per person, including 9 full-day training sessions, hands-on practical experience at various sites, practice exams and review.  Refreshments and lunches will also be provided.

REGISTRATION FOR THE ONLINE EXAM IS NOT INCLUDED, AND NO PAPER EXAM WILL BE GIVEN. Class participants will be responsible for their own online exam registration.                    

IF MORE THAN ONE PERSON FROM YOUR COMPANY WILL PARTICIPATE, PLEASE CONTACT MMEC PRIOR TO REGISTRATION.

Lean Enterprise Certification Program –  Books You Will Need 
(Participants to purchase on their own - for required reading assignments)

• Lean Production Simplified by Pascal Dennis
• Gemba Kaizen by Masaaki Imai
• Lean Thinking by James Womack & Daniel Jones
• Learning to See by Mike Rother & John Shook