Lean Foundations Certification
Acuity Institute’s Lean Foundations Certification online course provides participants with a curated set of Lean skills to execute Lean improvements.
Whether you are new to the concept of utilizing Lean or are a team member who is going to be working on Lean projects in the workplace, this course will help you learn the foundation that Lean is built on. The course will also show you how you can apply Lean techniques by utilizing some of the most common tools so you can confidently begin your journey with applying Lean to improve processes.
Credits:
- 0.6 CEUs
- 6 PDUs
This course includes:
- Lessons and Quizzes (2 Months Access)
- Instructor Support (2 Months Access)
- Lean Foundations Toolkit
- Lean Foundations Course eBook
No prerequisites required
Key outcomes
- Understand the basics and history of Lean
- Describe the Lean Roadmap
- Define customer needs and value
- Identify Constraints
- Implement 5S
- Identify Flow Problems
- Explain Pull vs. Push Systems
- Define Kanbans
- Explain Error Proofing (Poka-Yoke)
Course description
Acuity Institute’s courses are conducted online and use a multi-media format that includes audio from experts, examples of successful performance improvement, interactive simulations and quizzes, and the most current and robust tools and techniques available. This is a “self-paced” online course and can be accessed at any time—and—anywhere, which provides the most flexibility in completing the course. Learners have two months to complete the course.
We also provide learners with our Lean Fundamentals Toolkit, which includes various templates for your use in implementing delivering projects. The Toolkit includes easy-to-use templates for: Define Customer Value, Spaghetti Diagram, 8 Wastes, 5 S, and Error Proofing.
Many Lean initiatives fail because people do not know where to start or how to sustain improvements. Lean looks at reducing waste and improving flow in an organization. A Lean business produces just what is needed when it is needed, with no additional labor, costs, or time — resulting in bottom-line savings. We recommend this program to individuals interested in an introduction to Lean and seeking to apply the common Lean tools and concepts in their workplace.
Download the syllabus
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Certification requirements
To achieve your Acuity Institute Lean Foundations certification, you must:
- Complete the Online Lessons and Quizzes
- Successfully pass the Lesson Quizzes
Here's what learners had to say about this course
This course was fantastic! I had a few weeks free between consulting projects, and was glad to find this course as it allowed me to go at my own pace, so I could sprint through a lot of material on my schedule. Lots of information, lots of flexibility, and above all, the staff at Acuity were extremely responsive and helpful. They went above and beyond helping to clarify topics in the course and helping me log the hours as PDU’s through the Project Management Institute…Super kudos to Stephanie for top notch customer service!
I had the pleasure to recently complete my Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB) certification from Acuity Institute. The course material is developed in easy to understand concepts, and how they can be applied in the real world to achieve business and organizational benefits.
This course has helped me to further enhance my leadership skills, problem solving skills as well as analyzing and improving business processes. The course provides in depth understanding of the DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) road map and has taught me how to collect and analyze performance data, identify inefficiencies and problems, pinpoint root causes, and institute new protocols to greatly improve processes. The course covers Lean and Six Sigma methodologies and helps to develop skills in leading a team through the process of change. The course has a practical and applied focus.
The team of Acuity Institute is greatly helpful in helping the learners to understand concepts and willing to help candidates to help them succeed, I would highly recommend the Institute and this course to anyone who is looking to do Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification.
Complete course…right balance of theory and practical part. It can be used immediately even if you are in the beginning of the course and you get your certification at the same time your project is done. It gives you a large time of one year to complete your course. I recommend this especially to those like me have constraints in their job’s time schedule but want to learn anyway.
The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt course was really well done. It provided all of the necessary tools and instructions for me to understand and apply learned concepts into real world situations. The pace of course is good and does not consume a lot of time. Overall, this was a positive experience and has changed my way of analyzing a problem.
