If you’re interested in implementing lean manufacturing for continuous improvement at your workplace, you might want to check out our recently completed (and now (1) free and (2) recorded) on-demand Implementing Lean Manufacturing webinar immediately below.

View our Implementing Lean Manufacturing Webinar at our Webinars webpage.

We hope you enjoy the webinar and invite you to check out our libraries of online 5S & Lean training courses as well as our larger Continuous Improvement online training course library.

We’ve also included a series of links below the webinar video where you can read additional articles about lean, download free infographics and guides about lean and continuous improvement, and more.

And if you scroll to the very bottom of this page, there’s a download button where you can download one of the free Lean Manufacturing Infographics — 5 Principles of Lean Manufacturing. 

Read on for lots of Lean-related articles and downloads.

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We recently co-presented a webinar with our facilities maintenance customer CBRE about a partnership in which we worked together to create online facilities maintenance training courses and help them put together a robust maintenance tech training program.

Here’s the recording of that webinar. Feel free to check it out and ask us any questions you may have.

Also, before you leave this page, scroll down to the bottom and download our free Guide to Online Facilities Maintenance Training.

Thanks to our partners at CBRE–we’re looking forward to entering phase 2 of this project with you soon.

Watch our recorded Facilities Maintenance Online Training Program Case Study webinar online at our Webinars page. 

Here’s the free guide, too–don’t forget to download it today.

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If you’re involved in facilities maintenance, you know that training your maintenance staff isn’t that easy. And that’s before you even begin to think of the principles of sound instructional design and the technologies involved if you want to add an online training component.

In this guide, we tell you everything you need to know to get your facilities maintenance training program creating effective, measurable learning outcomes, helping to onboard new hires, speed up the transition of employees to competence and expert level, fill skill gaps, and more.

The guide at the bottom of this article covers:

• What is online training?
• Beginning your selection process
• Selection criteria
• Benefits of training programs
• Benefits of online training
• A case study based on one of our real customers
• How to design and develop training
• Online training as part of your overall training program
• Blended learning

In addition to the guide, you might also find these recorded webinars of interest:

• Selecting & Using Online Maintenance Training
• Developing a Maintenance Tech Training Program (A Case Study with Our Customers CBRE)
• Training Your Maintenance Staff: Five Key Areas to Focus On
• Develop a Culture of Organizational Learning to Improve Maintainability & Reliability

Enjoy the guide and webinars and let us know if we can help you with your facilities maintenance training program, and check out the quick highlight video of our 3D-animated online facilities maintenance training courses below.

Click the MORE button to download the guide to online facilities maintenance training from the bottom of this article.

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Training the employees in a top-notch maintenance department is a daunting effort.

In this guide, we tell you what you need to know about maintenance training programs in general as well as using online training courses and tools for part of your training.

The guide covers the following aspects of designing, developing, and implementing your maintenance training program:

• Benefits of maintenance training programs
• Benefits of of online training
• How online training “fits” into your overall training program
• What is online training?
• Beginning your online training search
• Online training selection criteria

Enjoy the free guide to maintenance tech training programs and let us know if we can help you out!

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We recently held a live webinar with Dr. Klaus Blache of the University of Tennessee’s Reliability and Maintainability Center and Jeff Dalto of Convergence Training discussing how to improve reliability & maintainability at your organization in general and how to use learning programs and online learning tools as part of that effort.

Watch a recorded version of our Increasing Organizational Learning for Improved Maintainability, Reliability & Continuous Improvement webinar at our Webinars page. 

We’ve included additional materials, including a course sample highlight video and a free downloadable Guide to Online Maintenance Training, below. Check ’em out and let us know if you have questions for us.

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Define-Measure-Analyze-Design-Verify, also known as DMADV, is a method used for the development of new products, processes, or services. It’s often associated with Six Sigma and it’s sometimes considered one method of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).

Don’t confuse DMADV with DMAIC (which stands for Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control). Both are somewhat similar, and both are commonly used in Six Sigma, but DMADV is used for the development of new services, products, or processes, whileDMAIC is used for improving existing processes/products/services. See our DMAIC infographic for more about DMAIC.

In addition to the DMADV infographic below, and the DMAIC infographic we just linked you to, you may also be interested in the following free downloadables:

• Free PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) infographic
• Free 7 Tools of Quality guide
• Free Deming’s 14 Points of Management guide
• Additional free downloadable guides, checklists, and infographics for workplace improvement

Enjoy the free infographic and let us know if you need help with your lean/quality/Six Sigma/continuous improvement training efforts at work.

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Lean manufacturing practitioners often talk about three different kinds of waste: muda, mura, and muri.

This can get a little confusing, because lean experts ALSO talk about seven or eight kind of wastes, but when they’re talking about that, they’re talking about seven or eight different types of muda (muda is a Japanese word that means something like futility, uselessness, or wastefulness). Please see our The 7 Types of Waste in Lean Infographic for more about the different types of muda.

But when people in lean talk about different types of waste other than muda, they are talk about mura and muri. Admittedly a bit confusing, yes, but are you with us now?

If so, we invite you to check out and then download our free 3 Types of Waste (Muda, Mura, and Muri) Infographic below for your workplace continuous improvement efforts.

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