Welcome to OU's Lean Institute

Lean eliminates waste throughout the business. Lean is a systematic, continuous improvement approach that focuses activities on reducing waste while aligning them to allow goods or services to flow smoothly and efficiently through an organization. Waste is anything that costs you resources but adds no value to the customers you serve.

Leaders of a Lean organization are dedicated to developing a culture of continuous improvement, in which employees work to make their own jobs as efficient as possible. More about Lean ...

Six Sigma is a highly disciplined approach to decision-making that revolves around collecting data to analyze the true costs and benefits of operations. In its most simple sense, Six Sigma helps people focus on improving processes to make them as nearly perfect as possible through efforts to standardize and control processes. 

The term “Six Sigma” relates to the number of mathematical defects in a process (a defect being any undesirable result). More about Six Sigma ...

The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model is a standard used throughout many industries for supply chain management. It was created in order to improve communication between supply-chain partners. The SCOR model accomplishes this by detailing the relationship between each of the five management processes within the model plan, source, make, deliver and return. More about SCOR ...

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OU's Lean Institute offers training at Tinker Business and Industrial Park. We also work with clients to offer training programs at their facilities when this is preferred.