Course Overview
Lean Six Sigma is a business improvement management system designed to help businesses improve their processes, their products, their quality, their service and their profitability. To do this Lean Six Sigma utilises a number of common-sense tools that have been developed and refined over the last 70 years into a structure that is used by extensively across the globe in every type of organisation.
Qualifications for Lean Six Sigma practitioners are provided in different coloured belts; yellow belt is intended for anyone that is directly involved in business improvement initiatives and provides a solid foundation of the knowledge required to effect positive change. Run over 3 days participants finish by completing an internationally accredited online multiple-choice exam with The Council for Six Sigma Certification.
What You Will Learn
- Lean Fundamentals – how to identify the 8 wastes of Lean thinking
- Six Sigma Fundamentals – what is Six Sigma and why it drive performance improvement
- Waste and Non-Value-Added Activity – erode profit you will learn how to identify, measure and plan to eliminate both
- 5S – The most used Lean tool, reduces waste, reduces variation and improves productivity
- Voice of the Customer – Understand what customers care about and making that your priority
- Kaizen – the strive for continuous improvement, there is always room for improvement
- Process Mapping and Value Stream Mapping – Map your processes to identify and action improvement
- Flow and Pull – how to balance your work to be in step with customer demand and why it matters
- DMAIC Methodology – the six-sigma route to improvement projects management – Define – Measure – Analyse - Improve - Control
- Defining Problems and Projects – how to build and run projects that focus on specific issues and opportunities
- Business Case – Improving can take time and money, ensure your projects clearly identify the business and cost benefits
- SIPOC – quickly identify the end-to-end components of any process
- Pareto Analysis – use what is sometimes known as the 80:20 rule, identify and focus on the vital few not the less important many
- Root Cause Analysis Tools – sometimes an issue is just a symptom of the real problem but the root cause needs to be identified before it can remedied.
- Statistics – In this session you will learn the common statistic and graphical analysis models – how and when to use them
- Hypothesis Testing – Selecting the right tests for your project here we examine common testing models
- Sample Size – Selecting the correct sample size, running and analysing sample size tests
- Control Charts – How to select, create and interpret Control Charts
- Applying Statistic in business with Six Sigma – How to use statistics to be relevant and meaningful in the everyday business environment.
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