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Lean Professional Certification

Acuity Institute’s Lean Professional online course provides participants with a structured approach to managing Lean projects in Service and Manufacturing environments and helps you learn how to sustain these improvements.

Many of today’s organizations are placing a great deal of emphasis to implement Lean in the workplace because they have realized that a Lean business produces just what is needed when it is needed with no additional labor, costs, or time, resulting in bottom-line savings for the organization. If you have been charged with implementing Lean, it is important to ensure you apply the best practices and top tools and techniques when initiating and managing Lean projects. This can be especially challenging when working in service environments such as healthcare, financial services, and insurance.

Credits:

  • 4.6 CEUs
  • 46 PDUs

This course includes:

No prerequisites required

Key outcomes

  • Identify the key Lean Principles
  • Differentiate between a Lean deployment and a Lean project
  • Describe the Lean Roadmap
  • Identify the key steps and deliverables in the Lean FOCUS™ Improvement Methodology
  • Define customer needs, value
  • Develop the Lean Charter, Current State Value Stream Map
  • Diagnose Problem Types
  • Identify Constraints; Implement Quick Wins
  • Reduce Lead Time on the Critical Path
  • Identify Flow Problems
  • Explain Pull vs. Push Systems
  • Define Kanbans
  • Create the Future State Value Stream Map
  • Describe the System Leverage Points and how to apply them to make change stick

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. If a learner spends 10 hours per week on this course, it can be completed in about 5 weeks.

Included in this course is Acuity Institute’s Simulated Lean Project. The simulation is based on a hypothetical service/transactional company that faces many of the same problems companies are dealing with today. The simulation is designed to illustrate the entire business improvement effort through every phase of the Lean FOCUS™ Improvement Methodology. Students complete 26 challenging exercises (project deliverables) which build on previously learned tools and concepts taught in training. When complete, students have a significant perspective on what a true Lean project deployment means and a tangible “project story” that they can utilize throughout their Lean journey.

At Acuity, we recognize that not every individual has the opportunity to complete an actual Lean project while completing training. The simulated project helps to build the students’ understanding of the concepts taught in training and provides practical application of the tools. Students complete the course better prepared to apply what they have learned in the real world.

We also provide learners with our Lean Professional Toolkit, which includes 24 templates from the Lean improvement methodology. Some of the templates include: Lean Charter, Product Family Matrix, Time Study, 8 Wastes, 5 S, Lead Time Reduction, FMEA, Kaizen Event Agenda, Action List and more.

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Certification requirements

To achieve your Acuity Institute Lean Professional certification, you must:

  1. Complete the Online Lessons and Quizzes
  2. Complete the Simulated Project Deliverables and Tollgate Reviews
  3. Successfully pass the Lean Professional Exam

Students will have two attempts to successfully pass the exam (80% or higher). The exam is open-book and administered online, with a maximum of 2 hours to complete. Students may use any reference materials to complete the exam — including training manuals, project materials, etc.

Here's what learners had to say about this course

Manuel Luna
Certified Acuity Institute Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified Lean Professional

After obtaining my Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification with Acuity Institute, I knew I wanted to expand my knowledge and get the Lean Professional Certification. Having already studied the LSSBB course, this proved to be an excellent complement for my training, as it helped me deepen my Lean skills and retain the information with brand new and exciting examples and exercises. This course starts off right at the basics of Lean and builds up to more complex elements in a way that grants that the learning experience has been absolutely profitable. Moreover, I can say that I had fun taking this course. The simulated project is so engaging and carefully woven that I felt I was an actual consultant trying to assist the fictitious company and helping them achieve their goals.

 

As a conclusion, I honestly think this course was challenging, illustrative and enthralling. Acuity Institute is a 10/10 provider and I recommend this training to anyone who wants to start a career in Lean.

Morgan Kerns
Certified Acuity Institute Lean Professional

I took this course (Lean Professional Certification) because I was in a role specifically focused on Continuous Improvement that modeled its focus off of LEAN Methodology. I thought that I had a pretty firm grasp of the concepts, but as I went through the course material and the simulations to put it into practice, I realized I had a number of gaps in my understanding. This course has definitely increased my knowledge and understanding of key concepts that are vital to my role and helped me to be far more effective in how I do my job.

Gabriel Gorscovoz
P. Eng, PMP, CMP

“Lean Professional” was my third course completed with Acuity Institute. The technical content and materials are very interesting, well summarized, and the videos are excellently narrated. I’ve liked the “FOCUS” (Focus, Operate, Create, Utilize, Sustain) methodology which is a bit different from the traditional “PDCA” (Plan, Do, Check, Act) cycle… Found it much easier to relate for application in daily practice. Well done AI!

Simulated Projects

At Acuity Institute, we recognize that not every individual has the opportunity to complete an actual project while completing training; therefore, we have created real world simulated projects that takes students from the beginning to the end of a problem and solution using the methodology trained in the course. The simulated project helps to build the student’s understanding of the concepts taught in training and provides practical application of the tools and methodology. Students complete the course better prepared to apply what they have learned in the real world.

The simulation is based on a hypothetical company that faces many of the same problems companies are dealing with today. Students complete challenging exercises and tollgate weviews which build on previously learned tools and concepts taught in training. When complete, students have a significant perspective on what true business improvement means and a tangible “project story” that they can utilize throughout their process improvement journey.

There is no comparison for these simulations in the marketplace today. No other provider offers a more comprehensive project simulation such as ours which includes numerous project deliverables, challenging analysis, and project tollgate reviews.

Toolkits

For many of Acuity’s courses, we have assembled a Toolkit, which contains a complete, user-friendly set of the templates included in the course. The toolkit assists practitioners in keeping focused on their project work and not creating “templates”. For ease of use, the templates can be downloaded directly to your computer and are yours to keep and utilize in future projects. The templates have been developed in common formats (MS Word, MS Excel or MS PowerPoint).