Module 2 is concerned with operational disciplines and techniques and participants are given the skills and knowledge that they will be expected to exploit in their own workplace and the host factory during Module 3.

Video recordings showing the progress of real factories demonstrate the tools, terminology and benefits of waste elimination and effective workflow; case studies and group tasks are used for systematic problem solving and practical models and simulations are fully exploited to demonstrate standardisation, motion economy, JIT and one-piece flow disciplines and set-up reduction techniques.

Participants are given a practical awareness of real operating costs, enabling them to relate the simplest operational improvements opportunities - shorter machine cycles, reduced set-up times, fewer breakdowns, less wasteful work assignments, reductions in scrap, waste or inventory, faster throughput, released capacity - in real cash terms: a translation that establishes improvement priorities and creates a hunger for further improvement.