ABC of Material Flow Bootcamp
A focused bootcamp on material flow and Kanban — how work and inventory should move, how to see pull in practice, and how to design a system your teams can run every day.
Lean training & coaching
Eliminate waste. Build lean capability that lasts.
TIMWOODS is practical lean training and coaching from Jon Arnold — grounded in the eight wastes, delivered on the Gemba, and built for teams who want fundamentals that stick.
About Jon
I’m Jon — a global operational excellence leader based in Swindon, UK, who has lived operations from the shop floor up.
I’ve worked in many of the roles myself: shop floor, shift manager, supply chain support, operations lead, plant management, regional operational excellence, global operational excellence and leadership coaching. I don’t just bring the knowledge and the toolkit — I’ve walked the path, so I know which approaches actually work and how to deploy successful transformations.
Continuous improvement culture is now part of who I am. It has even rubbed off on my beautiful wife, who is now a continuous improvement leader in the insurance industry herself — we live and breathe the waste-elimination mindset.
Alongside manufacturing, I’ve helped the non-manufacturing side of the business — the back-office processes that every organisation runs on. That same experience flows naturally into finance, insurance and service industries, where lean and waste elimination deliver just as much.
That experience underpins a track record of saving organisations millions of dollars through practical, people-centred lean.
Services
Lean fundamentals training and coaching — on-site or remote — tailored to your operation, your people and your priorities.
Lean fundamentals
- Kaizen
- Process mapping
- Value stream mapping
- Cell design
- 5S & visual factory
Standards & accountability
- Process quality charts & Pareto
- Standard work
- Leader standard work
- Tiered accountability
On-site
Remote
Public courses
Manufacturing, service and finance
What TIMWOODS stands for
TIMWOODS is the acronym for the eight wastes of lean. Spot them, name them, and you can start removing them.
T
Transport
Unnecessary movement of materials or product
I
Inventory
Stock beyond what is needed to flow
M
Motion
Wasted movement by people
W
Waiting
Idle time for people, parts or information
O
Overproduction
Making more or earlier than demand
O
Over-processing
Doing more than the customer needs
D
Defects
Rework, scrap and quality escapes
S
Skills
Unused talent and capability
Ready to cut waste?
Tell Jon about your site, your team and the outcome you need. He will respond with a clear next step — no jargon, no fluff.
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