• Lean at the Track #LeanattheTrack Lean Continuous Process Improvement Training at National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park Total Systems Development, Inc.

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Lean at the Track: Now anyone can have the opportunity to participate in a fast-paced and team-based motorsports challenge event. Set at the NCM Motorsports Park an hour north of Nashville, TN in Bowling Green, KY. Learn practical continuous improvement and innovation skills in a race against the clock, “sense of urgency” environment while building team cohesion and having fun in this rewarding experience.

  • Split into teams of six to compete in 2 days of motorsports challenges in a points based system
  • Confront challenging situations as a team to build new capabilities and confidence around continuous improvement and innovation
    • Gain or sharpen your skills around problem-solving, team work, leadership, critical thinking, critical eye, effective visual communication & systematic sustainment.
    • Compete in challenges that require speed, creativity, team cohesion and strong leadership.
  • Get behind the wheel of a Turbo Camaro on the autocross course and brand new Z51 track-prepared C8 mid-engined Corvettes on the NCM Grand Course.
  • Winners of the team-based points system get a ride as a passenger to a professional race car driver, at speeds of over 150 mph around the 3.2-mile roller-coaster of a road course

Learning Objectives

  1. Learn to utilize critical thinking & the critical eye to challenge assumptions
  2. Practical team problem solving with a sense of urgency
  3. Learn to rapidly deploy fundamental CPI techniques, resulting in micro-innovation
  4. Learn to use visual facilitation to more thoroughly communicate problems and solutions
  5. Learn to coordinate teams through complex and unfamiliar tasks
  6. Learn to apply feedback to challenge your teammates to higher performance

Gain Practical Application Experience:

Waste Identification

Practical Problem Solving

Visual Management of PDCA via Obeya

Value Stream Analysis

Standard Work

Job Instruction Training

Group Leadership & Facilitation

Develop Behaviors Focused On:

Sense of Urgency

Working from Facts

Critical Thinking

Operational Performance

Visualization

Mutual Trust & Respect

Creating Stability & Flow

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Unique ChallengesExhilarating RewardsTeamsImportant Information

Unique Challenges

National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park C8 Corvette

Challenge Corners

Walk 3 corner sequences on the track utilizing critical eye techniques taught in the classroom. Utilize what you see to determine the best racing line, braking zones, acceleration zones, car attitude, weight balance, wheel spin, rotation, and many other factors. Teams develop job instructions for each corner sequence. Those will be compared against professional’s racing methods for each corner sequence. Teams will be awarded points based on how close their instructions are to the professional’s method.

Ready Set

Teams will work in coordination to execute a set of tasks on a vehicle including pit crew tasks and getting a driver inside and ready. Standard work, work combination, and quick changeover techniques will be utilized. Anticipate the unexpected. Observations will be used for the Innovative Solutioning challenge.

Corvette Corner Challenge

Each team will have three 20 minute runs on the Grand Course in C8 corvettes in a lead/follow arrangement with an NCM professional. Each of the 3 corners from the critical eye challenge will have observers off-track to grade each driver’s performance. The team with the best overall line, smoothness and appropriate speed (group gapping with the lead car) will be awarded the most points.

Innovative Solutioning

Teams will be provided with a problem to solve. They will have time on day two during their downtime to come up with the best solution as a team, utilizing the 8-step model and visual facilitation. Each solution will be pitched, the best pitch will be awarded bonus points.

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Exhilarating Rewards

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AutoCross Challenge

All members of each team will take a Turbo Camaro for a spin around the autocross course, trying to achieve the best time. Penalties are assessed for hitting cones or veering off-course. All team member’s best lap time will be summed up with the Ready Set time added. Fastest overall team time will be awarded the most points.

Hot Laps for the Winning Team

Ride as a passenger in a track prepped Corvette with a professional driver at the helm. Reach speeds of over 150 mph on the hilly & curvy race course.

Others may purchase for $199

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Team-Based Program

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Team Competitions

Lean at the Track consists of several team competitions to drive your learning (see what I did there).  You will be divided up into teams of up to six people on day one and compete and improve with your team for all 3 days.  Registrants from the same business or organization can request to be on the same team, or different teams (if bragging rights are your thing); just let us know your preference.

Send Your Teams

The best way to experience Lean at the Track is with your team from work, whether competing head-to-head or working shoulder-to-shoulder. Come to the course with other team members from your organization to enhance the experience. Discounts apply.

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Important Information

Lean at the Track #LeanattheTrack National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park Total Systems Development, Inc.

Dates:  March 17th – 19th

Where: NCM Motorsports Park. Bowling Green, KY. 1-hour North of Nashville.

Capacity:  25  (Register early to reserve your spot)

Length: 2.5 days

Price: $2,250

Discounts: Send a full team of 5, get $100 off each person. Referrals – $50 off each, limit 4.  Military discount (active duty and retirees; DoD Civilians on orders) – contact us.

Physical Requirements: Lean at the Track will be a fairly strenuous 3 days with lots of physical activity. Those with heart conditions shall acquire a doctor’s release.

Safety: This will be in a controlled environment to limit exposure to potential safety hazards. It is of utmost importance that everyone listens and follows all instructions. Drugs and alcohol are strictly prohibited during course hours and usage will result in immediate removal from the program. Closed toe shoes are a requirement. No heels.

Meals: Lunch will be provided each day.

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Your Instructors

John Allen

Master Lean Trainer & Lead Coach

John Allen Founder and Chairman of TSD Lean Continuous Process Improvement Sensei

John Allen is an internationally known expert in Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) systems and change management (including Lean and Six Sigma). As a master lean Sensei, he has spent over twenty years as Chairman, CEO and founder of Total Systems Development, designing and conducting CPI training programs and implementing CPI systems throughout the world for the US Air Force and major multinational corporations. John’s knowledge and experience in lean extends particularly to the apparel and footwear business as reflected in his work with Nike, MAS Holdings and Brandix Lanka Limited.

Prior to starting TSD, John spent eight years at Toyota Motor Corporation, rising to the position responsible for all lean training at its first North American plant in Georgetown, Kentucky. Here he acquired his singular insight into the culture as well as mechanics of lean, and this played an essential role in his later contribution, as TSD principal, to the early development of the Ford Production System (based upon the Toyota Production System) and Ford’s Cleveland engine plant winning the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing.

Tom Adair

Group Facilitation & Problem Solving Lead Coach

Tom Adair author Solved! An Approach to Situational Practical Problem Solving

Tom Adair is retired from Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky. Tom has written several books and manuals for Toyota that are used throughout North America. His Latest book; Solved! An Approach to Situational Practical Problem Solving is available on Amazon.com. He is one of three original Toyota Master Trainers to develop the practical problem-solving methodology. Tom holds Master Trainer certificates from Toyota and is a Master Lean Black Belt.

After retirement Tom became a Total Systems Development (TSD) Senior Lean Consultant with the United States Air Force working at the Pentagon and eight air bases. After several years, he worked for Woodbridge Foam Fabrication as a Corporate Process Engineer/Lean Consultant over eight plants in the USA and Canada. Tom came to Huntsville, Alabama to work at Qualitest Pharmaceutical Manufacturing as Senior Manager for Process Improvement covering three plants.

In 2016 Tom rejoined TSD. Tom’s main focus is on the core Toyota Business Practice concepts of management culture change, employee engagement, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, Toyota credits these concepts as the fundamental beginning of implementing Lean and the sustaining practices needed for continuous improvement, profitable growth and to systematically maintain Lean production methods.

Ryan Allen

Group Coordinator & Lean Instructor

Ryan Allen, trained and mentored by Japanese-trained lean Senseis, has 11 years of lean consulting experience, with multiple certifications and a proven record of engaging the client workforce, solving problems, defining the clients’ “critical to quality” factors, and defining and implementing improvements. Mentored by such lean thought leaders as John Allen and Norman Bodek, Ryan has acquired a mature understanding of change management, policy deployment and the Harada method of people development, all of which are brought to bear in each of his engagements.

Ryan’s experience ranges from the launch phase of lean transformation efforts to developing governance models optimizing those efforts, to coaching and mentoring all supervisory and management levels of the organization in maintaining a forward momentum.  Also, he is an expert in the development and delivery of lean training programs, and co-authored Purdue University’s NeXT program of on-line lean & supply chain training modules.

In addition to leading transformation efforts, Ryan is also a practitioner in lean who is well versed in problem solving, standardized work, in-station quality control, quick changeover, visual management & kaizen facilitation.

Andy Pilgrim

Professional Sports Car Racer

Andy Pilgrim Lean at the Track #LeanattheTrack National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park Total Systems Development, Inc.

Andy Pilgrim joined the Corvette Racing team in 1999 after a successful career in IMSA racing where he earned four championships in four consecutive years. Teamed with Ron Fellows, Pilgrim scored the team’s historic first victory at Texas Motor Speedway in September 2000. In 2001, Pilgrim finished second in GTS in the Sebring 12-Hour and Le Mans 24-Hour endurance races, and was on the winning team for the Petit Le Mans season finale at Road Atlanta.

In 2001 Pilgrim teamed with Dale Earnhardt and Dale Jr. in the 24 Hours of Daytona, finishing second in the GTS class. Pilgrim and Dale Sr. developed a strong bond as Dale Sr. asked Andy to mentor him on road course racing. Pilgrim left the Corvette program in 2004 but stayed with General Motors, driving for the winning team at the Daytona 24 in the Doran-Pontiac, and spent the rest of the season driving for the new Cadillac CTS-V factory team in the SPEED World Challenge GT Series. He won the driver’s championship in the CTS-V, and finished 3rd and 2nd in the series in 2006 and 2007.

Pilgrim made his NASCAR Busch Series debut in 2007, driving two road course races for Dale Earnhardt, Jr.’s JR Motorsports team. In 2011 he joined former Corvette Racing teammate Johnny O’Connell in driving the factory Cadillac CTS-V Coupe in the World Challenge and made his Sprint Cup debut driving the 46 car for Whitney Motorsports, finishing 26th. Pilgrim has a long history of attending and serving as an instructor at NCM Motorsports Park high performance drivers education events.

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