Lean Manufacturing Black Belt Certification from The Freni Group - USA
If you are into business and you like to learn how to create value for customers with fewer resources, here’s the way. Asitha is joining hands with The Freni Group to bring their knowledge to SriLanka on how to minimize waste in business and maximizing customer value. David Freni is the founder of Freni Group Inc. in the USA. On a lighter note, Freni Group Inc is one of the largest consulting services in the world, all designed to help companies reach its potential. Whether you’re looking for process improvement or a green field design,Freni ‘s services are designed to meet the client’s needs. These services range from strategy consulting to Lean Manufacturing, High Performance and Supply Chains. Furthermore Freni group has collaborated with apparel giants such as Brandix& Mass Holdings previously. These partnerships laid the foundations of customer focused demand driven approach & provided lean leadership trainings in a variety of formats for all organization levels.
David Freni and Freni Group is all about making obvious what adds value by reducing everything else. David Freni is a Certified Lean Sensei and Six Sigma Black Belt holder . Having had an extensive experience (over 100 implementations) of Lean Manufacturing environments for footwear, apparel and sporting goods (hardware), over 30 countries
Asitha Madurawela ,was a Lean Consultant for Brandix and was Global Lean Champion for Avery Dennison Cooperation USA. Asitha along with David Freni is going to put his feet in to a new venture. And that is going to be Lean Manufacturing and Black Belt Certification. The certification will be provided under three levels namely: Yellow belt, Green belt and Black belt.
Yellow belt certification will include developing data collection and engineering skills to identify root causes for errors , organizing work place , identifying waste , balance workplace and understand where the constraints on the system resides. Green belt trains you for planning and implementing lean, leadership in lean management, to organize workflow in product families, how to use the 7 quality tools, cell design, cell supervision, importance of ergonomics, conducting quick changeover and how to engage operators in basic equipment care.
The third and the highest certification for lean , which is the black belt expects you to teach what is learned in the previous levels , roll out lean implementation plans , design workflow based on pull production systems and Kanban , develop a corporate strategy for improvement using Hoshin Kanri , learn the importance of lean supply chains and lean logistics. At this level candidates will be able com- plete a comprehensive lean implementation.
The certification is a globally recognized, industry specific training program in which certification will be granted by the Freni’s Group Inc. in the USA. Trainings will be team based, stimulations and exercises. The teaching panel will include David Freni, Asitha Madurawela and his colleague Udaya Sugathapala, who was once a Lean Champion at MAS Holdings, then the Manager for Process Engineering at Lion Brewery and now heading lean implementation for SriLanka at Midas Safety Careers.
All three levels of training with increasing skills will be broken into 3 to 10 day sessions. And all these sessions will be conducted on successive Saturdays.
So there’s an opportunity coming on the way for all those who are interested in learning and knowing what lean is and what it does to a business organization. According to David and Asitha, they think the training will best fit Lean team members, Lean Champions , Production Managers and assistant managers , LE Managers and Engineers , warehouse Managers , Maintenance team members and Executives.
To know more about this program visit www.thefenigroup.com or you can reach Asitha Madurawela at Asitha@thefenigroup.com. Don’t forget to grab the chance. Because some opportunities only come once and they are never found.