This virtual or on-site course gives students hands-on practice in learning and applying the CI tools to a real-world process. Facilitated by the instructor students will learn and apply the appropriate CI tools to plan and implement changes to a process to reduce waste and have a positive impact on quality, cost, lead time and product selection. Students will learn to describe basic lean tools, the process for planning and conducting improvement events, lead or plan and participate in a future kaizen event, document, and measure the outcomes, and understand how to apply lean tools to document, plan, implement, measure and monitor outcomes. The ideal student for this course will be people who have a direct impact on the real-world process.