Topic(s)
- Operations improvement
Overview
Learning to see: Lean in 10 pictures" is a unique and crafty way in which the audience can develop their thoughts and demonstrate their understanding of lean principles and tenets through pictures. This technique has been delivered to hundreds at Tapajna's organization – from trades, to foreman, to managers and executives. The learner is then armed to do at least one thing to improve their work environment, their job and their well-being.
This method is a captivating and a fun way to interact and....act. The audience does nearly all the talking. By the end, participants will experience both the physical and cultural tenets of lean, management of CI and how to create an army of problem-solvers. It weaves all we lean pundits have learned into one connected thread. Your understanding of lean will be laid right before your eyes, demonstrated through everyday pictures.
The root of this approach and some of the pictures used come from an older, wiser Japanese consultant, Tapajna's sensei, that had trouble speaking English without an interpreter. Instead, the sensei drew pictures to express concepts, and thus, learning to see was born.
Key learning objectives
- Participants will experience both the physical and cultural tenets of lean and how to be one of many in the army of problem-solvers.
- The technique can be replicated and repeated at the participants organization.
- Once you see, you can't unsee.
Company
Since 1886, the ships built at Newport News Shipbuilding, like the American Shipbuilders who built them, have served our nation in peace and war, in times of adversity and times of abundance. HII’s legacy of “Always Good Ships” includes the design, construction, overhaul and repair of hundreds of ships for the U.S. Navy and commercial customers.
Today, NNS, a division of HII, is the nation’s sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of only two shipyards capable of designing and building nuclear-powered submarines, leveraging its unique expertise in nuclear propulsion, naval design and manufacturing. NNS provides fleet services for its ships worldwide. https://hii.com/what-we-do/divisions/newport-news-shipbuilding/
Presenter
Brian Tapajna is a 35-year manufacturing continuous improvement change agent, leader and coach from the food processing, plastic injection molding machine OEM and shipbuilding industries. His extensive background includes plant and trades management, manufacturing engineering, brownfield startups, facility redesign, lean and continuous flow process changes, Six Sigma and applied problem-solving. His specialties include design for assembly, strategic planning, facilitation, supply chain management and helping others to “see.” His recent 20 years of experience at HII-Newport News Shipbuilding includes a deliberate career path to learn and drive change in all facets of operations. He has a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Toledo and an MBA from Baldwin Wallace College. Tapajna is a graduate of a four-year rotational managerial development program, certified in Production and Inventory Control and APICS (expired), a Baldrige criteria examiner, a Six Sigma Green Belt, and Lean Silver certified from the Shingo/AME/SME Alliance. 
