Lean Six Sigma Overview                                                                                           

Summary

Lean Six Sigma Overview is an interactive, two-day class that provides students with an overview of the effective integration of Lean and Six Sigma tools to drive out waste, reduce variation, improve customer satisfaction and continually improve their organization’s bottom line results. Six Sigma is a management philosophy, first developed at Motorola, which emphasizes setting extremely high objectives, collecting data, and analyzing results as a way to reduce defects in products and services. The Greek letter sigma is used here to denote variation from a standard. The philosophy behind Six Sigma is to systematically eliminate defects in a process in order to get as close to perfection as possible. In order for a company to achieve Six Sigma, it cannot produce more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. (Source: Definition of “six sigma” copyrighted and used with permission of whatis.com (http://www.whatis.com) and TechTarget Inc.). Lean Enterprise is a set of principles and tools that are used to improve quality, prevent waste, reduce lead-time and increase value to the customer. Together, Lean and Six Sigma Tools comprise a powerful continual improvement engine for any organization to achieve world-class bottom line results.

Who Should Attend

Attendees that will benefit from this course include: manufacturing engineers, quality engineers, quality managers, process owners, supervisors and plant managers. This course is ideal for employee or manager who is interested in the following:
     Up to 50% process cost reduction,
     Cycle-time improvement,
     Less material waste,
     A better understanding of customer requirements
     Increased customer satisfaction, and
     More reliable products and services.

Topics

Lean Tools Overview:
     Background and history of Lean Enterprise
     Understanding of key Lean Tools/Methods and their applications

Six Sigma Tools Overview:
     Understanding DMAIC Methodology (Design, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control)
     Understanding the application for Six Sigma Tools

Combining the Tools:
     Understanding the power of Lean Sigma
     Determining when to use each tool

Course Materials

Course material includes fully annotated presentation material, to allow the attendees to focus on what is being taught rather than on taking ‘good notes’.

Classroom Format

In addition to ‘classroom instruction’, the course relies heavily on examples from industry that the class is asked to discuss and make determinations on. Our instructors draw on their deep and varied experiences to provide many real-life examples for discussion.

Duration

2 days