World Class

Modern operational skills and management training. 

Lean techniques including  5S, SMED, TPM, Value stream mapping, Industry 4.0 technology opportunities and much more.

Our role is to provide world-class training and hands-on support in an affordable and convenient way.

In doing so, we can maximise the contribution that people make to improve their own organisations and help them to be the catalyst of continuous improvement initiatives within their own teams.

We do this by providing the most appropriate and up-to-date tools, techniques and support.

We also help you to understand how Industry 4.0  digital technologies could transform your operations when allied with Lean techniques.

We believe this to be the most efficient and cost-effective mode of delivering  training and support – particularly in these trying times.

We have the experience and specialist skills that enable our courses and support initiatives to be delivered using  both traditional methods and the latest on-line and multi-media tools.

In this way companies can:

• Design a unique support programme that meets their exact needs.
• Receive state-of-the-art learning in the form and at delivery times that best suits them.
• Progress at a pace that least disrupts their day to day activities.
• Integrate work-based projects into the training, where they simultaneously deploy the techniques they have learnt into their day-to-day work.

This complements ‘The future of jobs report’ published by The World Economic Forum in January 2025 which stated:

• Broadening digital access is expected to be the most transformative trend – both across technology-related trends and overall – with 60% of employers expecting it to transform their business by 2030. Advancements in technologies, particularly AI and information processing (86%); robotics and automation (58%); and energy generation, storage and distribution (41%), are also expected to be transformative. These trends are expected to have a divergent effect on jobs, driving both the fastest-growing and fastest-declining roles, and fueling demand for technology-related skills, including AI and big data, networks and cybersecurity and technological literacy, which are anticipated to be the top three fastest- growing skills.

Furthermore:

• Employers expect that six in 10 workers will require training and up-skilling before 2030.
• There has been a four-fold increase in the numbers of individuals seeking out opportunities for learning online.
• Analytical and creative thinking, along with problem solving remain the most important skills for workers.

What expertise do we offer?

New range of courses

In addition to our long-standing range of Lean and Leadership courses, we have developed a series of modules which seek to enhance the strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills required to meet the demands of the more demanding modern world.

These include:

• From Pandemic to Prosperity : refocusing your business strategy.
• Writing a Business Plan for the post-Covid world.
• Embrace and exploit the opportunities of Industry 4.0.
• Organic Chemistry in the workplace.
• The Unexpected Project Manager.
• Communicating effectively with your colleagues.
• Innovation management : new Product and Process Development.
• Capacity and Inventory management in a digital world.
• Supply Chain Management in the digital world.
• Kaizen : continuous improvement tools and problem-solving skills.
• The Lean Office: adjusting to hybrid working arrangements.
• Project management in a post-Covid and digital world.
• Time management in a post-Covid world.
• Leadership skills for the 2020’s
  

These new courses fit in perfectly with our tried and tested range of courses:

Dr. John’s Lean Toolkit

Based on techniques deployed, honed and optimised in over 200 companies in at least 15 industries, we have developed a series of tools and techniques to help companies achieve World Class standards.

What courses are contained in the toolkit? (Click link for details)

• Developing a safe, well-organised Workplace : The modular 5S programme.
• Are you sweating your assets? : Maintenance best practice (Total Productive Maintenance).
• Profit from product changeover efficiency : Grand Prix Style S.M.E.D. Changeovers.
• Losing money because of material leaks from your Process Pipe? : Waste management.
• Enhancing the efficiency of your supply chain : Value Stream Mapping.
• How cost effective is your design process? : Design for manufacturing.
• Can you make it at a profit? : Understanding your Process Capability.
• Reducing product and process variability using Statistical Process Control.
• Problem solving  in a systematic way.
• Preventing things from going wrong : Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.
• Capacity and Inventory Management.
• The use of  O.E.E. to prioritise improvement programmes.

These courses have  been significantly revamped to reflect the enhanced capabilities offered to these techniques by Industry 4.0 digital technologies like AI, Robotics, 3D Printing and Augmented Reality.

More details of these and all the other courses we provide are outlined in the What We Offer section of the website.

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Rapid ‘onboarding’ of new or redeployed staff

Another service we offer is a ‘tailored onboarding service’ designed to rapidly absorb new staff in key skills.

In this way they add value to the organisation much faster than if left to adsorb these skills in a traditional fashion.

(Adsorption is simply the process of adhesion to the surface. Absorption is a phenomenon of complete integration.)

Programmes can be constructed to contain the most relevant aspects of the above portfolio of courses, so that these skills can be learnt effectively and delivered rapidly.