1. The Maryland World Class
Consortia (MWCC)
Organizational Overview

2. The Maryland World Class Consortia
• Enhance the competitive capacity of Maryland
organizations
• Expand and grow businesses, preserve and grow jobs,
strengthen the economy, improve society
• Provided through:
– Diagnostics
– Education
– Networking and Shared Learning
– Implementation Support
• Products/Services center on Lean Thinking
(aka, The Toyota Production System)

3. What
Is
“Lean”?

4. A Brief History of Lean
Early TPS
Toyota Production System
Lean
Supply Chain
Lean
Development
Lean
Lean
Accounting
Service
Lean Thinking

5. Lean Thinking
is a philosophy.
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6. What lean is:
Total Everybody
Culture Change
The Every Day
Way You Work
Cycles of PDCA
Systematically
Solving Problems
Customer Value, Less Waste

7. Toyota Meals per Hour

8. Diagnostic Tools
• The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence
• Named for Shigeo Shingo, who created/described many
aspects of the Toyota Production System
• Established in 1988 to educate, assess, and recognize
world class operational excellence
• Philosophy: That sustainable results come from:
– Universal, self-evident principles
– Organization-wide alignment of management
systems, improvement techniques
• Shingo Prize and Research Prize

9. The Shingo Prize
• Version 7.1, May 2012
• Refined by Shingo Board
of Governors
• Guiding Principles:
– Away from deployment of
tools, techniques
– Bedrock of org. mindset
– Drives systems design
– Drives use of tools

10. Education
• Nearly 2 Dozen Workshops:
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One-Day Lean Overview
Setup Reduction
5S and Visual Management
Value Stream Mapping
Lean Office
Lean Product Development
Lean Accounting
Identifying Customer Value
Creative Problem-Solving
Policy Deployment
Team-Based Management
• Leadership Skills and Styles
Development Program
• Lean Facilitator Certification
Program
• Lean Certification Exam and
Prep Workshops
…And More

11. Lean Facilitator Certification
Program 2014
• Our Eighth Class Year
• January 2014 Kickoff, Five Month Program
• Aligned with SME/AME/Shingo/ASQ Lean
Certification

12. Lean Certification Partnership
• A universally recognized professional credential that:
• Differentiates levels of Lean knowledge and competency
• Provides a standard approach for measuring Lean knowledge
and accomplishment
• Develops the next generation of Lean professionals
• Facilitates the development of programs to align lean practices

13. Networking and Shared Learning
• Member Company Tours
• Guest Speakers
• Quarterly Meetings
– 11 Feb, 20 May, 7 Aug
• Lean Peer Groups
– Regional peer cooperatives
supporting shared learning
and development
• Lean Leadership Tours
– 12-13 May to Detroit/Ann
Arbor Michigan
– Fall TBD

14. 2014 Mid-Atlantic Lean Conference
• 22-23 October
• 3rd Annual Event
• Space Available:
Volunteers, Presenters, Sp
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4 Keynotes
32 Presenters
Exhibitors
Optional Workshops
Awards

15. Lean Govt. Presentations 2011-13
• FL Dept. of Environmental
Protection
• City of Grand Rapids, MI
• Livonia (MI) Public Schools
• MN Office of Continuous
Improvement
• IA Dept. of Economic Development
• NH Dept. of Environmental Services
• Howard County (MD) Public Schools

16. Implementation Support
• Applying lean tools and techniques
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Performance Improvement
Front-line learns by doing under an experienced coach
Leaders learn coaching, mentoring, leadership skills
Build self-sustaining cultures of continuous improvement
• Local and Nationally-Recognized Consultants
• All scales:
– Turnkey lean transformation projects
– Multi-day improvement events
– Daily continuous improvement skills

17. Just do it.
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18. Jeff Fuchs, Director
jfuchs@choosemaryland.org, jbfuchs100@g
mail.com
Cell: 443.865.2198
Twitter: @JBFuchs