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Centre for Competitive Operations department

For a lean & mean career

Kangan Institute has a long history of delivering manufacturing training.

A new approach to this training, under the umbrella of the industry-focused CMC, coordinates competitive manufacturing training for all manufacturing sectors including automotive, aviation, polymer, furniture, textiles, foods, and the transport & logistics industry.

Our Centre for Competitive Operations department also provides a skills recognition service which can help you attain a nationally-recognised qualification based on your prior work and life experience.

Kangan Institute's Centre for Competitive Operations (CCO) provides a fully integrated approach for Competitive Manufacturing (Lean)-related training programs and services to ensure you are perfectly places for a career in operations.

Possible career paths:

5 reasons to choose Kangan Institute:

1. Courses offered through the Centre range from certificate II to advanced diploma levels, as well as industry short courses and customised programs.
2. We also offer customised training to meet specific client needs. Your senior management's involved and consulted throughout the training program to ensure company business objectives are linked to the training outcomes.
3. We have a range of manufacturing organisation partners including Robert Bosch, Bostik, Australian Power Steering, Iveco Trucks, Volgren Bus, Amalgamated Casket Company, Heslop Contract Casters, APV Automotive Components, Futuris, Tuff Tonneaus, and Arvin Meritor.
4. We are able to consult on the changes that are required to make your organisation globally competitive, and the training programs that are linked to that goal.
5. We develop programs in conjunction with individual enterprises in a customer-centered manner. Accredited courses ensure the training is current, meets the industry requirements and offers pathways into further training, if required.

View all courses on the right, and click through for additional information on each.

Training principles

All training offered through Kangan Institute's Centre for Competitive Operations will reflect the principles of the CMI, which aims to increase the global competitiveness of Australian manufacturers by providing training with a stronger focus on:

• sound leadership in a competitive manufacturing environment
• strategic planning and looking at company targets
• the identification of waste in a manufacturing environment
• the rolling out of Lean tools including 5S, Quick Changeover, Mistake Proof
• innovative processes such as Just in Time and Kanban
• TPM / preventative maintenance systems

Lean manufacturing principles also underpin all training programs delivered by the Centre for Competitive Operations. Lean Manufacturing's emphasis is on eliminating waste while encouraging flexibility. A Lean Organisation is one where at every level there is an understanding of how to identify waste, a continuous process of eliminating it, improving output and reducing costs.

Our services

We develop programs in conjunction with individual enterprises in a customer-centered manner. Accredited courses ensure the training is current, meets the industry requirements and offers pathways into further training, if required.

Employers have flexibility to choose how, when and where the training is conducted. This has the distinct advantage of the learning taking place at the workplace and the advantage of minimising productivity losses and disruption to your business.

We also offer customised training to meet specific client needs, where one or two modules of training are linked to specific skill sets or specific outcomes required by an organisation. Your senior management are involved and consulted throughout the training program to ensure company business objectives are linked to the training outcomes. This includes management identifying company targets and improvement opportunities, which we then include in the training program.

We are able to consult on the changes that are required to make your organisation globally competitive, and the training programs that are linked to that goal.

We will tailor a training course for you.

We have designed a flexible Certificate IV and Diploma program that is tailored so that individuals within an organisation can attend the Institute to learn the craft of Competitive Manufacturing with participants from a variety of manufacturing organisations. This allows individuals to take their knowledge and practical projects back to their organisation and implement competitive Manufacturing within their workplace. This unique style allows companies and individuals to take advantage of Competitive Manufacturing at a lower cost.

Contact us

Email:	cco@kangan.edu.au
Phone:	13 TAFE (13 8233)
Fax:	9279 2435