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SUMMARY:QRM Silver day training series (B)
DESCRIPTION:Grow with QRM: shorter lead times\, lower costs and higher delivery reliability\nWould you like to shorten lead times\, reduce costs and improve your delivery reliability? During a 4 day QRM Silver training programme\, you will learn how to apply Quick Response Manufacturing within your own organisation. You will gain the principles\, methods\, tools and implementation skills needed to independently launch and guide a QRM project. \nThe training is organised by Sirris in collaboration with the QRM Institute and consists of nine knowledge modules\, spread across 4 day sessions (in Diepenbeek). The first half focuses on the fundamental principles\, methods and tools of QRM. The second half emphasises practical application\, implementation skills and change management. \nThe training is delivered by Belgian QRM experts: Joost Van Driessche\, Pascal Pollet and Ben Proesmans. \nFor whom?\nThis training programme is intended for professionals working in a production or industrial environment who want to achieve shorter lead times\, higher delivery reliability and reduced operational complexity.\nIt is especially relevant for: \n\nProduction\, operations and plant managers looking to reduce lead times\nTeam leaders and supervisors responsible for improvement initiatives\nSupply chain\, planning and logistics professionals seeking better control over lead times\, inventory and planning\nProcess\, lean and continuous improvement managers who want to apply QRM principles\nEngineering\, industrialisation and project managers\n\nNo prior knowledge of QRM is required\, but experience with production\, planning\, engineering or improvement projects will help participants apply the concepts more quickly within their own practice. \nWould you like to find out more about QRM? Read about it here \nOverview of knowledge modules\n\nModule 1: The power of time:\nHow time-based thinking offers new perspectives\, Manufacturing Critical-path Time (MCT)\nModule 2: Organisational structure: \nFocus Target Market Segment (FTMS)\, division into office and production cells\nModule 3: System dynamics:\nImpact of variability and utilisation rates\, the planning paradox\, optimal batch size\nModule 4: Company-wide deployment of QRM:\nLead time reduction with suppliers\, R&D and the impact on cost calculation\nModule 5: Social dynamics: teams and team development:\nTeam composition and development\, a new role for leadership\nModule 6: QRM simulation game:\nAnalysis of a simulated production environment and application of QRM principles\nModule 7: QRM implementation:\nAnalysis methods and change management\nModule 8: Case studies and testimonials:\nApplication of QRM in case studies\nModule 9: Applying QRM within your own company\n\nProgramme\nThe training is hold in Dutch. It starts at 09:00 and ends at 17:00. Participants are welcome from 8:30 onwards. Lunch is provided during all sessions. \n\n\n\n\nSession\n\n\nDate\n\n\n\nSession 1\n30 october 2026\n\n\nSession 2\n13 november 2026\n\n\nSession 3\n27 november 2026\n\n\nSession 4\n11 december 2026
URL:https://qrminstitute.org/event/qrm-silver-day-training-series-b/
LOCATION:B-Diepenbeek\, Wetenschapspark 35\, Diepenbeek\, 3590\, Belgium
ORGANIZER;CN="Sirris%2C Gent":MAILTO:pascal.pollet@sirris.be
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SUMMARY:Lean Leadership Online Summit (D)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, 10 November 2026\, 2.00-3.00 p.m.\n\nLeadership in QRM: Fast\, flexible and productive in dynamic markets \nUlrike Reiche\nQRM Institut GmbH – Associate Partner \nIn a VUCA and BANI world\, flexibility is not a luxury\, but essential for survival. How can you enable your company not only to respond to market changes\, but to proactively shape them? This presentation explores how the Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) transformation strategy can be your key to increased dynamism\, speed and productivity. Discover the crucial role that leadership plays in QRM: \n\nStrategy development in the face of high product variability (WHY)\nImplementation of a time-oriented work organisation (HOW)\nOperational excellence across the entire organisation (WHAT)\n\nAs a leader\, what specific levers do you have at your disposal to drive your company’s transformation forward with vigour and make your organisation fit for the future? This presentation provides you with answers and practical insights. \n  \n\n\nWednesday\, 11 November\, 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm\n“Successful leadership requires an understanding of the system” – Using interconnected thinking to move from local problems to systemic solutions \nDieter Hahn\nManaging Partner\, QRM Institut GmbH \nMany change initiatives fail not because of a lack of technical knowledge\, but because of a narrow focus on individual problems. Those who reduce leadership to the elimination of isolated or local disruptions often create new side effects elsewhere. Sustainable transformation therefore requires more than measures\, tools and targets: it requires networked thinking. \nThis talk explores why successful leadership must focus on the entire system – on interactions\, interdependencies and\, above all\, on the self-regulating mechanisms of organisations. The key concept here is cybernetics. These mechanisms are complex and do not function linearly. They react\, learn\, block\, compensate and reinforce. Anyone who wishes to lead systems must understand how they regulate themselves. \nLeadership thus becomes the ability to reveal interconnections within complex systems\, to provide direction and to shape the framework in such a way that change is effectively enabled. \n\n  \n\nThursday\, 12 November\, 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm\nVisibility as a leadership infrastructure: The path to greater trust and personal responsibility \nSandra Meister\nTrainer\, coach and consultant specialising in transformation\, leadership and collaboration \nTrust and personal responsibility arise from structures that make them possible in the first place.\nWe therefore explore a spectrum ranging from the cognitive limits of human attention\, through the question of how leadership can establish a shared sense of direction amidst complexity\, to a broader understanding of visual management as the infrastructure for collective orientation. \nThis gives rise to an understanding of leadership that focuses on empowerment. When teams can recognise connections for themselves\, prioritise tasks independently and make decisions closer to the source of value creation\, leaders gain the space to focus on their core task: shaping the framework within which orientation and decision-making capacity can flourish. \nThis talk offers initial insights into how the path to greater orientation can be shaped\, and how visual systems can be developed so that they begin to have an impact in day-to-day working life.
URL:https://qrminstitute.org/event/lean-leadership-online-summit-d/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:QRM Silver training series (B)
DESCRIPTION:Grow with QRM: shorter lead times\, lower costs and higher delivery reliability\nWould you like to shorten lead times\, reduce costs and improve your delivery reliability? During this ten-part QRM Silver training programme\, you will learn how to apply Quick Response Manufacturing within your own organisation. You will gain the principles\, methods\, tools and implementation skills needed to independently launch and guide a QRM project. \nThe training is organised by Sirris in collaboration with the QRM Institute and consists of nine knowledge modules\, spread across ten evening sessions. The first half focuses on the fundamental principles\, methods and tools of QRM. The second half emphasises practical application\, implementation skills and change management. \nThe training is delivered by Belgian QRM experts: Joost Van Driessche\, Pascal Pollet and Ben Proesmans. \nFor whom?\nThis training programme is intended for professionals working in a production or industrial environment who want to achieve shorter lead times\, higher delivery reliability and reduced operational complexity.\nIt is especially relevant for: \n\nProduction\, operations and plant managers looking to reduce lead times\nTeam leaders and supervisors responsible for improvement initiatives\nSupply chain\, planning and logistics professionals seeking better control over lead times\, inventory and planning\nProcess\, lean and continuous improvement managers who want to apply QRM principles\nEngineering\, industrialisation and project managers\nInternal project leaders\, change agents and consultants supporting operational improvement projects\n\nNo prior knowledge of QRM is required\, but experience with production\, planning\, engineering or improvement projects will help participants apply the concepts more quickly within their own practice. \nKey takeaways\nAfter this training\, you will be able to: \n\napply the principles of Quick Response Manufacturing\nanalyse lead times and identify improvement opportunities\nindependently launch a QRM project\ncarry out the analysis phase of a QRM implementation\nsupport the implementation of QRM\nguide teams through change and implementation\n\nOverview of knowledge modules\n\nModule 1: The power of time:\nHow time-based thinking offers new perspectives\, Manufacturing Critical-path Time (MCT)\nModule 2: Organisational structure: \nFocus Target Market Segment (FTMS)\, division into office and production cells\nModule 3: System dynamics:\nImpact of variability and utilisation rates\, the planning paradox\, optimal batch size\nModule 4: Company-wide deployment of QRM:\nLead time reduction with suppliers\, R&D and the impact on cost calculation\nModule 5: Social dynamics: teams and team development:\nTeam composition and development\, a new role for leadership\nModule 6: QRM simulation game:\nAnalysis of a simulated production environment and application of QRM principles\nModule 7: QRM implementation:\nAnalysis methods and change management\nModule 8: Case studies and testimonials:\nApplication of QRM in case studies\nModule 9: Applying QRM within your own company\n\nProgramme\nThe training is hold in Dutch. It starts at 17:30 and ends at 21:00. Participants are welcome from 17:00 onwards. A light meal is provided at the start of each session. \n\n\n\n\n\nSession\n\n\nDate\n\n\n\nSession 1\n18 November 2026\n\n\nSession 2\n25 November 2026\n\n\nSession 3\n2 December 2026\n\n\nSession 4\n9 December 2026\n\n\nSession  5\n16 December 2026\n\n\nSession 6\n6 January 2027\n\n\nSession 7\n13 January 2027\n\n\nSession 8\n20 January 2027\n\n\nSession 9\n27 January 2027\n\n\nSession 10\n3 February 2027
URL:https://qrminstitute.org/event/qrm-silver-training-series-b/
LOCATION:B-Zwijnaarde\, Technologiepark 48\, Zwijnaarde\, 9052\, Belgium
ORGANIZER;CN="Sirris%2C Gent":MAILTO:pascal.pollet@sirris.be
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SUMMARY:International QRM Community Days - 2027 January 14th/15th (Belgium)
DESCRIPTION:The QRM Community brings together QRM practitioners\, who are active in a QRM transformation\, from around the world to exchange experiences\, share best practices and gain inspiration from leading company transformations by using the QRM principles. \nThe QRM Community Days is a two-day event. We will start on Thursday\, November 5 at 13:30\, allowing participants sufficient time to travel to the venue. The program includes an afternoon session on the first day\, followed by a full morning and lunch on the second day. The meeting will conclude early in the afternoon\, enabling everyone to travel home the same day. \nThis year\, the International QRM Community will visit two Belgian manufacturers that have successfully transformed their operations through the application of QRM principles. \n\nProvan is an award-winning metalworking company specializing in tube\, profile and sheet metal processing\, welding and assembly. Serving a high-variety\, low-volume market\, Provan has been applying QRM for many years to achieve exceptionally short lead times and high flexibility\, making it one of Europe’s best-known QRM success stories.\nGerken Belgium\, part of the Wabtec Group\, designs and manufactures high-performance carbon and graphite components for industrial and railway applications. The company recently introduced POLCA to improve the flow of customized products through its high-mix manufacturing environment\, providing an excellent opportunity to see a recent POLCA implementation in practice.\n\nProgramme \nThursday\, January 14th \n\n13:30 – 13:45: Welcome at Provan (Troisdorflaan 22\, 3600 Genk)\n13:45 – 14:45: Presentation on QRM Journey of Provan\n14:45 – 15:45: Tour of production area\n15:45 – 17:00: Questions and experience sharing\n17:00: Transport from Provan to hotel (Genk)\n19:30: QRM Community Dinner in Genk (Restaurant Gusto\, Europalaan 38\, 3600 Genk)\n\nFriday\, Jnauary 15th \n\n08:00: Transport from hotel to Gerken\n09:00 – 09:15: Welcome at Gerken (Av. du Parc 41\, 4800 Verviers)\n09:15 – 10:15: Presentation on QRM journey of Gerken\n10:15 – 11:15: Tour of production area\n11:15 – 12:30: Questions and experience sharing\n12:30 – 13:00: Lunch\n13:00 – 15:00: Workshop: Sharing best practices and identifying practical next steps\n\nRegistration \nPrice: 150 Euro\, including dinner and lunch \nPersonal travel and accomodation costs are not included. \nThe registration for the international QRM community should be made via an email to your local QRM Institute member. \nThe visits are limited to 20 participants. \n 
URL:https://qrminstitute.org/event/international-qrm-community-days-november-56th-belgium/
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SUMMARY:QRM® Institute Silver course (D)
DESCRIPTION:The QRM® Institute Silver course combines theoretical knowledge of QRM® principles with practical applications through exercises and simulations. It illustrates the change from a cost-oriented traditional mindset (store floor or support services) to an agile QRM® cell organization that focuses on reducing cycle time. \nQRM® is not about working faster\, but about working better together. It is about simplifying workflows and streamlining company processes – both internal and external (suppliers and customers) – to create collaborative dynamics. \nThe main goal of QRM® is to grow the business by focusing on reducing lead times in all processes. QRM® reduces delays by eliminating unnecessary time from the customer’s perspective: the so-called “white space”. \nIf you are faced with increasingly individualized customer requests with short deadlines\, then QRM® is for you. \n\nObjectives of the Silver training\nUnderstanding the origin and the 4 basic principles of QRM®\nLearning techniques and tools for analyzing the lead time (MCT)\nLearning and implementing the laws of system dynamics\nLearn and implement the keys to a cellular organization\nBetter understand the dynamics of interpersonal interactions\, the keys to team development and the quick response leadership style\n\nDates \n8 March 2027 – 6:00–8:00 p.m. – Online onboarding \n9 March 2027 – 6:00–9:00 p.m. – 1st online training session \n10 March 2027 – 6:00–9:00 p.m. – 2nd online training session \n15 March 2027 – 17 October 2026 in person \n18 March 2027 Visit to a QRM company \nApril/May 2027 – Follow-up and exam preparation
URL:https://qrminstitute.org/event/qrm-institute-silver-course-d/
LOCATION:D-Offenburg
ORGANIZER;CN="QRM Institut GmbH":MAILTO:info@qrm-institute.com
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