GBMP Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership Training DVDs and Videos

TOAST Kaizen: The Perfect Introduction to Continuous Improvement
 

Narrated by and featuring Bruce Hamilton, Shingo Prize Recipient and GBMP President, this 27 minute video highlights the seven deadly wastes found in both administrative offices and in manufacturing processes. In this training tool, the process of making toast is used to represent the before condition and the target condition of a manufacturing or transaction based process and helps your people to identify with the process of Kaizen or small and continuous improvements. Whether you are already on the Continuous Improvement journey or you are just beginning to realize the power of continuous improvement implementation, this video is an essential learning tool for your entire workforce.

The Toast Kaizen DVD is available in English and Spanish. The DVD is also available via voiceover in Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, Czech, Polish, Turkish, Hindi, and Gujarati.

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Downsizing Lot Sizes Video:

Using direct observation of familiar tasks and class participation techniques, Reducing Lot Sizes (Dozen Eggs) detaches viewers from the conventional supplier first view point that thwarts many lean initiatives. This 36 minute DVD is both for policy makers and those who must execute those policies.

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A Slice of Six Sigma DVD

An easy-to-understand introduction to Six Sigma for non-statisticians. This 25-minute lean training DVD, A Slice of Six Sigma will give you and your employees an essential understanding of principles of Six Sigma and DMAIC ( Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control ) model. Video suitable for any company or organization.

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5S – 5 Challenges identifies keys to success that are not explained in the familiar before and after pictures and video often used to describe the 5S process. In the words of Bruce Hamilton, “we’ve figuratively seen the before and after photos of the 98 pound weakling who transforms to Mr. or Ms. Universe, but we don’t get to see the key steps which effected that change.” This 30 minute DVD explains and demonstrates those steps.

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MOMENTS OF TRUTH Video:

In this 35 Min Video, Shingo Prize recipient Bruce Hamilton invites managers and supervisors to take a look in the mirror-to examine how their actions and reactions can alternately energize the continuous improvement program, or kill it. Drawing upon the wisdom of the creators of the Toyota Production System, Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo, and Deming Prize winner, Ryuji Fukuda, this training tool focuses on the essential changes in management behavior that fosters and supports a sustainable Lean transformation.

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This newest Lean Training DVD, Value Stream Mapping, explains how this invaluable Lean Tool can be used to improve all of your manufacturing processes. You'll follow a 2-day training class as Value Stream Mapping is applied throughout an actual manufacturing facility.

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Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Video:

Using graphic examples, "TPM: Tapping the Hidden Capacity of Your Equipment" demonstrates that our equipment typically runs at shockingly low productivity rates, resulting from breakdowns, setups, idling, minor stoppages, startup losses, and defect production and explains the drawbacks of running in "breakdown mode".

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Companies able to create an environment of trust that respects human nature report that Poka-Yoke is the most creative and empowering tool in the Lean arsenal. In this light-hearted look at mistake-proofing, Bruce Hamilton outlines, through a series of vignettes and exercises, the steps that any enterprise can take to create a mistake-proof culture to unlock the power of employee creativity to reduce defects to zero!     

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Video Plant Tour Series: Z Corporation Video:

Since 2003 Z Corporation of Wilmington Massachusetts has employed Lean Manufacturing to drive their improvement efforts. By implementing single-piece flow, customer-driven production, standardized work, kanban systems, a quality-at-the-source approach and other Lean tools, Z Corp has increased factory output by 300%, employee productivity by 45% and inventory turns by more than 50%, all while still maintaining an on-time delivery rate in excess of 95%. And now you and your team can take a 30-minute tour of this award-winning facility from the comfort of your own training room.

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Lean for the Office....Creating the Perfect Day Video:

Lean for the Office…Creating the Perfect Day is a 35-minute video which introduces and demonstrates Lean tools applied to all of these administrative operations and more. Using fun and easy to understand examples, the DVD will get your team excited about applying these powerful tools to their work to achieve dramatic results in their daily jobs.

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Raytheon IADC Plant Tour DVD

The video highlights many diverse examples of continuous improvement implemented through determined efforts of the Raytheon workforce. Use video as part of lean training curriculum to understand lean continuous improvement, 7 wastes, 5S, Toyota manufacturing techniques, poka-yoke, Shingo, visual controls and more.

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Toast Value Stream Mapping Video:

Split into two half-hour training segments, first part examines current condition as we follow toast-making process to understand material and information flows. Second part details target condition showing how orders of magnitude improvement can be systematically identified, achieved and measured. "Toast VSM", offers a realistic, day-in-the-life experience for lean implementers who wish to gain the full benefit of Value Stream Mapping.

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Thinking Outside The Suggestion Box DVD: How To Create An Idea System That Works

This 32-minute video will teach you how to encourage and celebrate your employees' ideas. you will learn what works best for your employees and your company through experience.

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Lean Policy Deployment Video

Video details technical and people side of creating strategic and tactical alignment in your organization. Using X-type Matrix as practice tool, Lean Policy Deployment (LPD) implements continual process for establishment of strategic and tactical plans, linking these to local improvement by teams and driving improvement to bottom and top line.

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AccuRounds: Plant Tour Series DVD

From this plant tour of AccuRounds, see how you can take your business to next level! In this video, you'll learn about power of leader standard work, visual controls, idea generation and more.

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Vibco - At War with Muda: Plant Tour Series DVD

Vibration Nation: Learning to See is a high-energy, interactive training Virtual Plant Tour and lesson designed to educate, motivate and inspire viewers to embrace a lean philosophy. You will see the transformative impact of lean on VIBCO and how adopting lean principles can transform any organization - whether public or private, government, manufacturing, high-tech, service-related, etc.

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Brookfield Engineering Laboratories: GBMP Plant Tour Series DVD

Video will help companies reduce waste and create and sustain a sound lean culture. Brookfield Engineering Laboratories in Massachusetts is used as a case study.

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Abiomed Plant Tour DVD

Abiomed is a global leader in heart support and recovery products. Part of GBMP Lean Training Video Plant Tour series, video highlights many key lean principles including the power of employee idea systems, how to engage all of your employees, the importance of 5S and Visual Control Systems, how to use Kanban to connect and synchronize your operations, and many more.

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Pulling Together: An Introduction to Pull Systems & Kanban DVD

This 30-minute Pull Systems and Kanban DVD introduces concept of pulling work through processes while using Kanban methods (signals) so customers and suppliers in value stream can be effectively linked and synchronized in a simple, visual manner.

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Pulling Together 2: Learning to Connect & Synchronize DVD

Video is a continuation of the Pulling Together: An Introduction to Pull Systems and Kanban Video. Video provides more detail on how to make material and information flow at the right time, at the right rate.

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Change(over) is Good! Cut Costs & Increase Flexibility through Set Up Reduction DVD

This 30-minute Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership ( GBMP ) produced video introduces method Shingo created to involve and inspire people to re-think changeovers.

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Single Point Lean Lesson Posters

Video details technical and people side of creating strategic and tactical alignment in your organization. Using X-type Matrix as practice tool, Lean Policy Deployment (LPD) implements continual process for establishment of strategic and tactical plans, linking these to local improvement by teams and driving improvement to bottom and top line.

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The Pegboard Game, Standardized Work

This fast-paced game/simulation will help students to understand the implications of NOT standardizing the way they work and how it impacts time, quality and cost. The game teaches power and value of standardized work. It also helps participants to understand the need for the right amount of resources. The game includes a CD showing the simulation which may be used to supplement the actual exercise or may be shown in lieu of performing the exercise.

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The Nuts & Bolts Exercise

This simple but effective training exercise/game helps students really understand the implications of good workplace organization. You can tell them, but it is so much more powerful when they can see for themselves how "Five S Workplace Organization" impacts their work - time, quality and cost!

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The Hat Game

The Hat Game is useful exercise on effects of preconceptions and biases. Game demonstrates power of these organizational dynamics to energize or squelch lean efforts by illustrating most important tenet of Toyota Production System ( TPS ), Respect For People. Use this exercise over and over again - make it a part of your new employee orientation and part of ongoing Continuous Improvement training.

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The Dice Game - Gambling With Your Company

The purpose of The Dice Game Gambling with your Company is to simply and easily illustrate for your employees the difference between "push" and "pull" processing using poker chips and dice.

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Virtual Plant Tour Series Package

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The Toast Video Package

The Toast Video Package contains the TOAST Kaizen DVD and the Toast Value Stream Mapping DVD. The two GBMP's best-selling, Shingo Prize-winning Introduction to Lean DVDs will show your employees an odyssey that will teach your team everything they need to know to identify waste, map current and future conditions, work as a team, and make things happen.

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GBMP Lean Training Tools Package

Package offers all non-video GBMP Lean Training products. The package contains One set of 12 Single Point Lean Lesson Posters, 50 7-Wastes pens, The Pegboard Game (illustrating Standardize Work, with DVD), The Nuts & Bolts Exercise (5S Workplace Organization, with DVD)

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The Complete GBMP Lean Training Package

The package contains everything you need to create an unsurpassable Lean Training arsenal, especially at this price. The package contains 14 GBMP Lean Training DVDs (including Toast Kaizen and 4 Virtual Plant Tours), a set of 12 Single Point Lean Lesson Posters, 50 "7-Wastes" Pens, The Nuts & Bolts Exercise and the Pegboard Simulation Standardized Work training game.

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Lean Initiative Starting Package

This 3-pack of GBMP's award-winning Lean Training DVDs contains Toast Kaizen: An Introduction to Continuous Improvement, Moments of Truth: Creating a Lean Chain of Support, and Lean Policy Deployment: The Roadmap to Improvement.

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Entire GBMP Lean Training DVD Library, 18 DVDs

The DVD Lean Training Library consists of 18 invaluable titles, including best-selling Toast Kaizen, Toast Value Stream Mapping, A Slice of Six Sigma, 6 Virtual Plant Tours ( AccuRounds, Abiomed, Vibco, Brookfield Engineering Laboratories, Z Corp & Raytheon ), Lean for the Office, 5S-5 Challenges, Value Stream Mapping, Total Productive Maintenance, Pokayoke, Downsizing Lot Sizes, Moments of Truth & Lean Policy Deployment.

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