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We don't just talk about Lean, we implement it. That's the difference!!!

Vative assist Motorola to develop internationally certified Lean packages.......more

Onsteel use Vative services to train senior management in Lean Six Sigma techniques......more

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Vative assist Motorola University to develop the first internationally certified Lean program. Similar to Motorola's Six Sigma Green, Black and Master Black Belt training and certification, the Lean package offers levels of internationally certified training for Lean Practioner, Lean Expert and Lean Master. The program is targeted towards senior managers of an organisation and involves the following over a 3-4 day duration:

	Education about the history of Lean and all the tools required to implement a successful lean system
	Four rounds of simulation workshops to help educate particapants about how lean tools are applied and the benefits to an organisation
	Optional business operations forensic (Lean Business Health Check)
	Optional Value Stream Mapping of business processes
	Implementation of real projects (Required only for certification)
his program is the ideal way to educate senior staff about lean principles and align the business to an overall strategy. This program is perfectly suited as a leadership and management training prior to any Australian Certificate training in Cert III or Cert IV.

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Onsteel use Vative Services to train senior management in Lean Six Sigma techniques. This three day lean training workshop targeted senior managers from multiple sites around Australia. Educating the leaders of the organisation about the power of Lean and Six Sigma and how to apply the tools in reality to business operations. Participants had the following feedback:

	The Vative team have thoroughly knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma
	The simulation workshops gave pratical insight on how lean tools are applied and the expected benefits
	The Vative team are very down to earth and provided realistic guidance
	The materials are detailed and easy to understand
	The exercises teach us how to effectively apply each tool to the detail of calculating supermarket sizes
We would recommend Vative and this course to any organisation which is serious about implementing Lean!

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Melba Industries & Kangan Batman TAFE use Vative Services to Launch Lean in Australia's largest textile industry. This project aims to assist Kangan Batman TAFE and Melba in implementing specialised Lean Aspects to create a foundation and culture of change:

	Main product Value Stream Mapped
	Strategic Analysis made by Vative to identify opportunites for change and align with training program and key projects for improvement
	Final Inspection and packaging area undertake 5S program and dramatically reduce waste
	Company wide metrics system is developed to visualise performance and standardise in measures to reach company KPIs
	Quick Change Over program implemented to reduce lead time in major productivity areas
The project is currently in progress and tracking well.

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Vative launch new patented innovative marketing system in an effort to bring Lean to the Marketing Industry by Start 07'. This new innovative marketing system named InfoM8 has a primary focus of providing faster, more direct and accurate communications between businesses and potential customers and helping the society become a better place through links to existing charity organisations.

InfoM8 offers promotional information to members via mobile phone SMS (Short Message Services). InfoM8 members benefit from the service by receiving information from preselected categories of interest. This information will alert the member to unique events of interest or savings for a desired product or service.

As InfoM8 recognises that members are an integral part of the system, InfoM8 credits members for information received, which may be taken as cash to reduce mobile phone costs or donated to any in of the 8 major charity organisations affiliated with InfoM8.

InfoM8Direct customers are businesses wishing to promote products or services via SMS and other electronic communication systems to a specific demographic group within the community. InfoM8Direct allows businesses to accurately segregate the market to find consumers that have pre-acknowledged interest in the specific product or service category. This system allows business to more efficiently spend their marketing budget and track the effectiveness of their promotions. This new innovation helps bring back the true intensions of promotions and eliminate tonnes of waste paper generate by existing systems.

Want to know more visit www.InfoM8.com.au

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Robert Bosch use Vative services to improve Kanban Systems for most complex production process & help eliminate missed deliveries.

The product group LWS (a smartly engineered steering wheel angle sensor) supplies to a worldwide market. This huge demand has created a large number of product variants each uniquely design to suit customer specific needs.

This expanse of variety in product design and high volumes of manufacture has caused a complex and hard to maintain Kanban system to evolve.

The complexity of the system made it very hard to monitor what efficient levels of stocks should be stored for each variant manufactured.
Vative have assisted Robert Bosch to design a system that makes all the following improvements:

	Single point control of entire Kanban system for area
	Better utilisation of stock by holding stock of only completed goods which are useful to the customer and eliminating work in progress stock piles
	27% overall stock reduction while increasing useful safety stock by 200%
	Improving visual controls of work in progress levels between prior assembly processes by use of FIFO lanes
	Development of a Kanban roadmap to indicate when product should be added or removed from Kanban
	Development of capacity planning tool according to product specific process flows
	Improved design over Kanban card to list sub assembly part number and process route
	Simplification of card generating system
	Amplification of breakdowns and line stoppages issues for quicker resolution
Ongoing improvements continue...

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Mackay Multilinkuse Vative Services to Launch Lean and increase Process Efficiency by 57%. This project was implemented over a 6 month period executing major improvements and changes as follows:

	Standard times developed for entire assembly process
	Capacity planning tool developed to allow production planning teams to clearly set assembly team targets and improve planning and forecasting systems
	Development of work scheduling board (Heijunka) to assist production in demand clarity and materials preparations
	Improved workplace design and elimination of high risk injury operations by implementation of lifting aids for axle fitting area. These aids also increased productivity
	Development of Kanban system for logistical largest and highest inclusive cost item (Frame) eliminating demand shortages, improving process flow and stock transparency
	Plant layout plans developed and redesigned to eliminate shared pedestrian and forklift access areas, improved process flow, line marking and better utilisation of stores area
	Establishment of technician tool trolleys and tool card system to increase productivity via material shopping system, providing the correct tools for the job and reducing tooling loss costs
	Development of automated greasing system which eliminates major quality issue of insufficient greasing of wheel bearing and totally eradicates chances of contamination
	many more minor improvements
We wish Mackay Mulitlink the best on their journey to Lean and continue to support their needs. Stage 2 of project now in progress.

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