.       Welcome to Granite Bay's Suite of Lean Manufacturing Services! Granite Bay provides four options for achieving Lean excellence at your facility. Each is backed by our satisfaction guarantee and designed for successful shop floor implementation.  Option 1 is an Executive Lean Overview. Faster, Better, Cheaper: Practical, Proven Solutions for Achieving Lean, Rapid-Response Manufacturing is a one-day session geared for plant managers and other operations executives to provide a primer on Lean Manufacturing, including a discussion of the tools, when to use them and strategies for successful plant-wide implementation. Offered occasionally in locations throughout the U.S., this event can be brought directly to your facility and presented to your management team. Option 2 is a two-day in-house seminar entitled Successfully Implementing Lean Manufacturing, and is designed to give managers, supervisors and shop floor personnel a working knowledge of lean principles as they relate to the organization's key business objectives. Participants leave with an understanding of a few key concepts that they can begin to apply immediately in their work areas. This workshop is an excellent way to kick-off a Lean initiative and get the entire organization on the same page. Conducted world-wide. Option 3 is a 3-day applied workshop called QuickLeanSM, designed for leaders in small- to medium-size manufacturing plants. This is a cost-effective solution that will help your plant get started on the Lean journey or revitalize your current approach. The mornings are spent learning about Lean in a classroom. Then, in the afternoon, we move to the plant floor to apply the concepts. Option 4 is a 6-month process called Accelerating PerformanceSM that provides both the skills and the guidance to successfully implement Lean throughout the entire organization, starting with a pilot cell. Your plant and staff teams first learn certain Lean tools, then how to apply them to create continuous, sustainable improvements. The structured approach gives your organization the skills and confidence to continue the journey to World-Class Manufacturing on its own. [For a brief article on Lean Manufacturing, please click here.] .