ICBE Advanced Productivity Skillnet
This comprehensive Skillnet is committed to promoting innovation and productivity through industry-led training for the manufacturing and service sectors in Ireland. Advanced methodologies and technology are key focus areas.
Focusing initially on Lean, Six Sigma and Shingo, this Skillnet has expanded to include key technologies and methodologies from automation to data analytics and additive manufacturing.
Types of training included in this Skillnet are:
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Innovation Yellow Belt
- Innovation Green Belt
- Lean Manufacturing Tools
- Lean Applied to the Office Environment
- Training Within Industry (TWI)
- Job Instruction Training (JIT)
- Job Methods Training (JMT)
- Standard Work
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM)/ Material & Information Flow (M&I Study)
- Systematic Problem Solving
- Systematic Problem Solving
- Hoshin Kanri/Strategy Deployment
- People/Human Side of Lean
- Lean Certification Programme
- Tiered Meetings & Leadership Coaching
- High Performance Mentoring for Advanced Productivity
- Shingo Prize Workshops
- Supply Chain Management
- Lean LAB Training
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Lean Lite Workshop
- Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)
- Automation/Robotics Programme
- Lean Mentoring & Coaching
- Production Planning & Control
- 8 Step Problem Solving
- Developing High performing Mentors for CI Projects
- Strategic Leadership Training
- Design of Experiments (DoE)
- Team Collaboration Process and Tools
- Employee Engagement
- Information / Data Capture, Analysis and Use in Manufacturing/Supply Chain
- Using / Application of Data to make Business Decisions
- Data Visualisation
- Enterprise Excellence & Strategy Deployment
- Continuous Improvement Workshops
- Agile Work
The ICBE provided tremendous mentorship and guidance for Boston Scientific Cork as we successfully challenged for the Shingo Prize in 2016. ICBE membership provides that forum of learning and collaboration that truly allows for Continuous Improvement to never end. Improving the job is the job!
Sean Gayer, VP Operations, Boston Scientific Cork
Contact: Aidan Kelly - Network Manager aidan@icbe.ie
Kate de Courcy - Network Executive kate@icbe.ie
ESF+ Shingo Discover Excellence Workshop
1st & 2nd October 2025
@ Boston Scientific, Cork
This two day SHINGO DISCOVER EXCELLENCE workshop will be delivered onsite at Boston Scientific (Cork, Ireland) between 1 & 2 October in 8 hr sessions between 08:00 & 17:00 each day.
The registration link is specific to ICBE - https://eur.cvent.me/Xk8rAr?RefId=ICBE
About the course
The workshop will be led by experienced Shingo facilitator Colin Scott and you will hear first hand, how Shingo principles drive behaviour throughout the entire organisation to deliver world class results.
DISCOVER EXCELLENCE is the foundational workshop that introduces the SHINGO MODEL, the Shingo Guiding Principles and the Three Insights to Organisational Excellence. With active discussions this workshop will provide a highly interactive experience. It is designed to make your learning meaningful and immediately applicable as you discover how to release the latent potential in your organisation to enable you to achieve organizational excellence. It provides the basic understanding needed in all Shingo Workshops, therefore is a pre-requisite to them.
What makes the Shingo Workshops powerful is that each workshop includes a reflection on an organization (the Host Site). This allows participants to reflect on the theory and apply their learning by interviewing various people in the organisation. In workshops held onsite this usually takes the form of a Gemba walk where team members are interviewed at their workplace.
As a participant, you will:
LEARN and understand the Shingo Model.
DISCOVER the Three Insights of Organizational Excellence.
EXPLORE how the Shingo Guiding Principles inform ideal behaviours that ultimately lead to sustainable results.
UNDERSTAND the behavioural assessment process through an interactive case study and on-site learning.
How this is delivered:
The interactive training consists of: 2x 8 hour sessions (08:00 – 17:00).
Over 2 days
