Transforming your office or business into a lean environment can eliminate waste, improve quality, reduce costs, lower inventory and improve customer service. A series of seven four-hour sessions will show you how the lean process works, how to implement it, and how to sustain it.

The sessions will be offered in Schoolcraft College’s VisTaTech Center from October 6 through November 11. The sessions include Developing a Lean Culture, Lean Leadership, Lean Office, Lean Simulation, Value Stream Mapping, Introduction to 5 S and Sustaining Lean.

The entire series of seven courses costs $675. You can select individual sessions at $110 each.

A consortium of community colleges is sponsoring the training, and participants can attend the sessions at Henry Ford, Macomb, Monroe County, Oakland, Washtenaw or Wayne County community colleges, in addition to the Schoolcraft location. You can take the courses at any college, at any time, on any date that is most convenient for you.

Instructors include Brian Saylor, senior consultant for KAIZEN Institute of America; Paul Neblock and Richard Townsend of Kobalt Partners, LLC; The Projected Technologies Group faculty; and UHY Advisors, Inc. faculty.

For more information, call Schoolcraft’s Corporate Training at 734-462-4441. To download a schedule of dates, locations and times of sessions, or to get a registration form, go to www.macomb.edu/WDI/pdf.LeanProcessTrng.pdf.

The Southeast Michigan Community College Consortium is a volunteer membership association of business and industry service divisions from area community colleges, dedicated to creating and implementing workforce and economic development in Southeast Michigan.

Schoolcraft College is a public two-year college, offering classes at the Livonia campus on Haggerty Road between Six and Seven Mile roads, at the Radcliff Center in Garden City and online.