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LEAN ASSESSMENT / WORLD CLASS CERTIFICATION

How well is your Lean Implementation program working? Where do you stack up against the competition? What can you do to accelerate your journey to Lean? Our Extreme Lean™ Assessment/Certification program can help you answer these questions – providing a rigorous analysis of the success of your Lean implementation.

For over 23 years, Technical Change Associates (TCA) has worked with forward-thinking organizations to enhance performance and accelerate growth. Our Extreme Lean™ Assessment/Certification program is just one more way we’re helping to build and strengthen some of the world’s best companies.

Using the highly developed methodology of our Extreme Lean™ Assessment/ Certification program, we analyze the maturity of your Extreme Lean™ implementation process. It all begins with assessment, where we numerically score the results of a rigorous examination and document areas of weakness or nonconformance. We then identify activities to address areas for improvement.

When applied on a frequent and consistent basis, our assessment process can greatly accelerate your journey to Lean. And when your assessment scores reach an advanced level,
we will certify your company as a World Class Manufacturing Enterprise.

What is Extreme Lean™ Assessment/Certification?

The assessment and certification process determines the “maturity” level of your Lean implementation. Whether your company has been involved in a Lean Implementation for a short time or for many years, quantitatively assessing the current success of your programs can greatly accelerate future progress.

Finding the time to run your business and drive improvement can be difficult. We can help by numerically assessing the continuous improvement process, locating areas of nonconformity
or delays, and mapping out appropriate counter-measures.

Assessing and Certifying Your Success

We evaluate 11 specific capabilities of the Lean/World Class Manufacturing Enterprise using the TCA Competition Quad. Our Lean Assessment Specialists will systematically examine documents, interview people at all levels and observe operations in the shop and the office. We use carefully crafted checklists for each of the 11 performance areas, and a numerical scoring
process then generates a quantified scorecard. When measured at frequent intervals, the resulting scores drive critical modifications and additions to improvement plans.

Assessment Leads to Certification

An organization that attains a score of 2.7 on a scale of 3.0 is a mature Lean company that ranks with the best and is therefore deserving of certification. Displaying the Technical Change
Associates Extreme Lean™ certification plaque announces that your achievements are truly World Class. Companies that achieve this certification can rest assured that they are meeting the highest criteria for a number of other prestigious awards.

Take the first step to achieving the performance, status and recognition that you and your company deserve. Contact us today to get TCA’s Extreme Lean™ Certification program working for you.

TCA Extreme Lean™ Experts

TCA has provided management consulting, technical assistance and training programs to business and industry for more than two decades. We help companies set new directions by harnessing the power of World Class Manufacturing and Lean techniques.

Our clients are developing Extreme Lean™ capabilities to increase profits, grow market share and solidify long-term relationships with key customers.

Whatever the combination of Lean, Six Sigma, Value Engineering or Information Technology tools your company needs, our associates are skilled in facilitating interdisciplinary teams to achieve creative, cost-effective solutions to many of the difficult challenges managers face in today's hyper-competitive business climate.

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