P-Course is the workshop-style lean manufacturing production training run in Australia and New Zealand by Shinka Management and globally together with JMA Consultants.

1. The Lean Manufacturing Production Training
course created by the Japan Management
Association Consultants and run by Shinka
Management in Australia and New Zealand.
http://shinkamanagement.com/lean-training/lean-manufacturing-production-training/

2. P-Course Introduction
The P-Course is a workshop-
style program developed by JMA
Consultants (JMAC).
The course is designed to
improve workplaces and
enhance human resources.
The P-Course offers an opportunity to
learn and apply the most powerful lean
manufacturing production tools used by
Japan’s leading manufacturers:
• Improvement methodology
• Process analysis
• Work sampling
• Time study
• Production line organisation
• Analysis and improvement tools

3. Course Outline
The course is typically run over 5
or 10 days with a total of 16-20
people working in small teams.
Lectures take place in a central
location and those learnings are
applied to the shop floor of
project host plants.
Consultants move around to each
project host plant to ensure
correct understanding and
application of those learnings.
Team presentations of findings
take place on the 5th day.

4. Course Structure
The course progresses through
a cycle of lectures and practical
training. The participants can
immediately apply what they
learn in lectures to real-world
problems in their very own
workplaces.
It is the participants who play the
leading role—our consultants
are there to guide and support
them. The guidance of the
consultants helps participants to
recognize issues and develop
solutions independently.

5. Lean Manufacturing Production
The curriculum of the course is
based on the methods of
Industrial Engineering. The
course incorporates the vast
expertise accumulated by JMAC
over its long history as a leader
in Japanese industrial
enterprise.
The purpose is to improve the
application of Industrial
Engineering through the
implementation of various lean
manufacturing production
methodologies, tools and
techniques.

6. Key Topics
Improvement Methodology
The overall planning, thinking and improvement framework.
Process Analysis
Use combined process flow charts to model, measure and analyse
material movement and operator work patterns, optimize layouts.
Work Sampling
Find, analyse and eliminate non-value added waste.
Time Study
Measure and analyse the fundamental interactions between
people, equipment and materials.
Production Line Organization
Capacity planning, loading and balancing to optimize output.
Analysis and Improvement (Kaizen) Tools
Simple and effective tools for the improver’s personal toolkit.

7. Sample Course Schedule
MON TUE WED THU FRI
08:00 8:00 Opening 8:00 Team Update 8:00 Team Update 8:00: Data Collection 8:00 Presentation
Preparation
8:30 Lecture Process Analysis Work Sampling Man-Machine Chart
Introduction to IE 9:00 Lecture 9:00 Lecture
9:30 Break Lean Production I Lean Production II
9:45 Team Introductions 9:45 Break 9:45 Break
10:00 Lecture 10:00 Lecture
Target Area Outline
CLASSROOM
CLASSROOM
Kaizen Techniques Lean Production Activity
CLASSROOM
10:45 Break 10:45 Break 10:45 Break
MORNING
11:00 Lecture 11:00 Lecture 11:00 Lecture
PLANT
PLANT
Process Analysis Work Sampling Operation Analysis
LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
13:00: Data Collection 13:00: Data Collection 13:00: Data Collection 13:00 Team Update 13:00 Presentation
Preparation
General Information Work Sampling Time Study Operation Analysis
Process Analysis 14:00 Lecture
Production Line Organisation 14:30 Final Presentations
15:00 Break Team Presentations
15:15 Lecture
AFTERNOON
Closing Comments
CLASSROOM
CLASSROOM
Equipment Efficiency
16:15 Presentation
Preparation
PLANT
PLANT
PLANT
Improvement Scenario 17:00 Drinks
17：
30

8. Course Benefits
The P-Course is not merely a training seminar for your staff. It is a program to help
you cultivate and establish a “system for continuous workplace improvement” to
serve your company for many years.
Participants learn the skill of identifying and fixing problems and will continue to
take improvement initiatives after the course. In addition, they can serve as a core
group for spreading kaizen skills throughout other company workplaces.
Participants take away with them
an understanding of IE
methodologies, tools and
techniques, and more importantly
experience in their practical
application.
Implementation of this know-how
on return to their plant will reap
considerable rewards.

9. History
Since it was first offered in 1937, the P-Course has
been run at over 700 companies around the world.
Many outstanding graduates of the P-Course have
gone on to make enormous contributions in IE.
One example is Shigeo Shingo, who
pioneered the development and
widespread adoption of the legendary
Just-In-Time production system, and
the Single-Minute Exchange of Die
system.

10. Trainers
Yoshiaki Makino – Senior Consultant
Yoshi has 39 years experience as a lean manufacturing consultant. He has conducted projects and lean
manufacturing production training with numerous Australian companies since the late 1980s. He has also
worked with some of the most famous companies in Japan and throughout Asia. You will not find
experience like his elsewhere in Australia.
Some of the key themes Yoshi has worked on during his time in Australia include cost reduction, labor
efficiency improvement, product quality improvement, shortening production lead time, and human
resource management.
Ben Sparrow – Consultant
Ben spent eight years with Japan Management Association Consultants working with some of the most
experienced lean consultants in the world. Ben is skilled in the transfer and implementation of Japanese
lean management concepts and know-how into local Australian companies.
Some of the key themes Ben has worked on include production line process design, labour productivity
improvement, equipment efficiency improvement, 5S and SMED. Ben has led P-Courses in
Australia, India, China and Thailand.
Paul Smith – Consultant
Paul’s professional background is in Engineering optimisation and efficiency, and lean management and
continuous improvement practices.
Paul has worked with water and electricity utilities across Australia, New Zealand and Asia to help them
efficiently plan, operate and manage their infrastructure, and promote an efficiency and continuous
improvement mindset within their personnel. In addition to his role as a lean manufacturing consultant,
Paul consults in civil engineering within the water and mining industries.

11. Apply to Join a P-Course
Shinka Management runs lean
manufacturing production training across
Australia and New Zealand, and partners
with JMAC to run courses in other regions.
Contact Shinka Management today to
discuss the opportunity for your staff to
experience the P-Course.
Shinka Management
Website: http://shinkamanagement.com/
Phone: +61 8 8394 0005

12. Shinka Management Pty Ltd
ABN: 80 596 935 808
Level 1, 45 Greenhill Road
Wayville, South Australia 5034
Telephone: +61-8-8394-0005
http://shinkamanagement.com