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Lean Education & Awareness
OTI’s hands-on Lean Education & Awareness provides a safe, low-risk environment for exposure to the power of Lean. Learn how Lean applies to your workplace, create actions which can be implemented quickly and easily to improve operational and financial performance. Using one of your existing processes, identify and eliminate process waste while reducing cost and cycle time.

Areas covered in the 2 – 3 day Education and Awareness include:

  • What is Lean?... waste?... kaizen?... process thinking?
  • The Thoughtware® Game
  • The Process Walk™
  • Visioning the process without waste
  • Action Plan

The Lean E & A is designed for those who have heard about Lean but need to know more in order to make informed decisions. The Lean E & A is also suited to those who have been unable to successfully implement Lean.


OTI’s Lean Education & Awareness exercises taught us how to see waste and eliminate it. Within weeks we were “doing” real change; dramatically reducing set up times, redesigning our paint line, moving heavy equipment and machinery closer together, setting up cellular manufacturing, and anchoring it all with Standard & Reliable methods. This was remarkable because Bourgault had tried Lean previously with limited success.

Darren Borstmayer
Manufacturing & Engineering Leader
Bourgault Industries, St Brieux, Saskatchewan