Earning the Lean Silver Certification recognizes your experience as a lean project leader on value stream transformations.
It represents your career progression in knowledge and responsibility as you have become a senior employee and team leader.
Steps to Lean Silver Certification
You must complete requirements that include education, knowledge, experience and mentoring. You must have also completed the requirements for the Lean Bronze Certification.
After you apply for the Lean Silver Certification, you will receive a comprehensive kit to help you prepare.
Body of Knowledge
To earn this certification, you should demonstrate your understanding of the Lean Certification Body of Knowledge (PDF), including:
Setting goals, gap analysis, project management
Teamwork, team facilitation, team selection
Tactical results measurement (initial goal, results to goals, gaps)
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Autonomation (jidoka)
Cells, one-piece flow
Continuous improvement (kaizen)
Cost, productivity results
Customer demand pace (takt time)
Customer requirements, satisfaction
Distribution, logistics, delivery
Flow
Identifying value added/non-value added work
Identifying waste
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Load leveling (heijunka)
Mistake proofing (poka-yoke)
Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle (PDCA)
Problem solving (5 whys)
Pull systems (kanban)
Quality methods
Quick changeover, setup reduction
Root cause, corrective action
Standard work
Total productive maintenance (TPM)
Value stream mapping
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Reference Material
Exam questions are based on specific Recommended Readings (PDF) selected by knowledgeable and experienced individuals:
- Practical Lean Accounting, Brian Maskell and Bruce Baggaley
- The Lean Design Guidebook, Ronald Mascitelli
- Office Kaizen, William Lareau
- Real Numbers, Orest J. Fiume and Jean E. Cunningham
- The Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker
- Toyota Production System, Taiichi Ohno
Experience Portfolio
You must provide documentation that you have led a lean transformation of a complete value stream. You must also show that you have led or participated in 5 lean events, projects or activities that applied and integrated lean principles, along with their results.
Mentoring
You must show that you are mentoring/coaching another lean practitioner.
Exam
You must submit your portfolio and take an exam. The open-book 150-question exam takes three hours.
Plan your next step
Your Lean Silver Certification is valid for 3 years. You may then choose to pursue recertification or the Lean Gold
Forside Lean Certification
Bronze Level
Gold Level