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Our expert presenter, Jana Hocken, with her extensive experience in applying LEAN principles, will guide you through essential concepts that can improve your dairy farm operations. With a solid foundation as an engineer with Toyota, Jana Hocken brings more than 20 years of experience practicing, leading, teaching and implementing lean and continuous improvement culture and methodologies into companies globally. She has successfully helped hundreds of companies across Europe, America, Asia and Australia, apply lean thinking to improve their operations. Jana has worked across most industry sectors including automotive, rail, aerospace, defence, healthcare, government, finance, IT and agriculture. Since 2017 Jana has helped to bring lean concepts to farming, first implementing lean on her family’s 1,000 cow dairy farm in New Zealand. With proven results, she founded The LeanFarm Project to help create awareness of the significant benefits lean has in farming. Jana has now delivered LeanFarm workshops and speaking events to thousands of farmers across the world, helping them to start their lean journeys. In 2019 she published her book ‘The Lean Dairy Farm’ – a highly practical and relevant step by step guide that every farmer can use to apply lean principles on farm.

Webinars

Part 1 - Introduction to LEAN Thinking

An interactive webinar to learn about Lean in dairy farming and how this proven management methodology can help your farm to improve its productivity, reduce waste and costs, build a high performing team and culture and achieve better results and profitability. The webinar will include a short Q&A session at the end so that farmers will have the opportunity to ask questions directly.

Part 2 - The 8 wastes on farm

An interactive webinar to learn about the 8 Wastes that exist in your farm business and how to identify and eliminate this waste to reduce your costs and improve productivity and profitability. The webinar will conclude with a Q&A session to give farmers an opportunity to ask questions directly.

Part 3 - Visual Management

An interactive webinar to learn about the power of visual management and visualization on your farm. You will discover how to visualize your farm's and team's critical information and data to improve communication, decision making, and drive actions. This lean tool can transform your farm team and performance. The webinar will include a short Q&A session at the end so that farmers will have the opportunity to ask questions directly.

Part 4 - Standard Work on Farm

An interactive webinar to learn about the importance of systems, processes and standards on farm to produce a high quality product at the lowest cost, efficiently and effectively, reduce waste, improve team ownership and accountability and create consistent, reliable outcomes. The webinar will include a short Q&A session at the end so that farmers will have the opportunity to ask questions directly.

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