Lean Certifications

Process Improvement Methods for all Industries

Lean Certifications from the University of Michigan

Lean Supply Chain and Warehouse Management
Lean Supply Chain and Warehouse Management
Lean supply chain requires lean inbound and outbound logistics along with a lean shop floor. This supply chain training program will teach how to analyze the relevant transportation and inventory expenses to develop a lean logistics system that supports the lean enterprise.

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Principles of Lean Overview
Principles of Lean Overview


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Lean Deployment
Lean Deployment


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Lean Warehousing
Lean Warehousing


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Lean Management Systems
Lean Management Systems


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Value Stream Mapping
Value Stream Mapping


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Lean Systems Design
Lean Systems Design


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Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt


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Lean Healthcare
Lean Healthcare
A five-day program in which participants learn how to apply lean concepts and tools of the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS) to healthcare enterprises including hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes, clinics, laboratories, and administrative and other health services.

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Lean Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is based on the Toyota Production System (TPS), a lean manufacturing philosophy and set of methods for dramatically reducing time from customer order to product delivery, costing less, taking less space and producing superior quality. This lean certification program will instill lean six sigma techniques including value stream mapping in order to ultimately benefit your customer.

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Lean Transactional for Business Processes
Lean Transactional for Business Processes -
Streamline and eliminate waste from your office and administrative processes and achieve bottom-line savings. Take advantage of this five-day Certification program and learn the crucial first steps in creating the knowledge base to successfully apply lean concepts, tools, and methods throughout your office or business processes.

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Lean Pharmaceutical
Lean Pharmaceutical
Specifically designed for pharmaceutical manufacturing professionals, this unique course shows how lean principles can be applied successfully in pharmaceutical manufacturing and drug development. Lean training that is focused on the pharmaceutical industry can pay big dividends by significantly reducing the cost of manufacturing and drug development while increasing throughput, reducing inventories, and cutting cycle times.

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Lean Product Development
Lean Product Development Training
The key to Toyota's legendary lean manufacturing capability is their fully integrated product development system, TPDS. This program gives participants an in-depth understanding of how TPDS works and its principles, tools, and benefits. Apply the lessons learned to ensure that your enterprise is fully lean.

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Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
This new program integrates the two leading continuous improvement strategies, Lean and Six Sigma. You will learn how to apply the DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) problem-solving methodology with a Lean-Six Sigma mindset for maximum results. Green Belt Certification is offered.

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Lean Supply Chain for Healthcare
Lean Supply Chain for Healthcare
This 4-1/2-day program teaches participants how to apply Lean thinking to supply chain operations in a healthcare setting. It draws upon years of experience in successful Lean training by U-M faculty and uses case studies to provide real-world examples.

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Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata
Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata: 3 Days Including 2 Days in the Field
Developing a culture of continuous improvement and innovation is the responsibility of leaders and managers. They do this by having everyone throughout the company practice behavior patterns called kata that generate and support this culture and skills. This new way of managing teaches everyone how to work through unpredictable obstacles and achieve new levels of performance and results, again and again, across the entire company.


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Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata
Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata: Theory and Practice
Developing a culture of continuous improvement and innovation is the responsibility of leaders and managers. They do this by having everyone throughout the company practice behavior patterns called kata that generate and support this culture and skills. This new way of managing teaches everyone how to work through unpredictable obstacles and achieve new levels of performance and results, again and again, across the entire company.


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Lean Certifications from the University of Michigan

Make Your Company More Competitive

Lean methods can help to streamline processes,
reduce waste and improve efficiency everywhere in your organization, from the front office to the factory floor, to the emergency room.

With a range of Lean Certification program offerings in both on-campus short course and online formats, the University of Michigan has training opportunities available for busy professionals who are ready to make a difference in their organization.

There's no time like the present to get Lean!

Russ Scaffede Joins Instructors in
Lean Manufacturing Program

Russ Scaffede

A knowledgeable and successful leader of lean manufacturing operations, Russ Scaffede is a former Toyota manufacturing executive, chief operating architect of the successful lean transformations at Donnelly Corporation and Tiara Yachts, and a former chairman of the Shingo Prize Board of Governors. More about Russ Scaffede...

He will be teaching the "Leading the Change to Lean" Module in the Lean Manufacturing Certification Program.

Read an article by Russ, Are Your Lean Efforts Achieving Sustainable Maximum Results?