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; white belt is intended for anyone in an organisation that is actively employing the tools and techniques of Lean Six Sigma to effect positive change. This ½ day workshop will give you an understanding of Lean Six Sigma fundamentals, plus a working knowledge of tools and methods commonly used to drive improvements. At the end of the workshop participants complete an internationally accredited online multiple-choice exam with The Council for Six Sigma Certification and will become accredited White Belts.
What You Will Learn
- Six Sigma Fundamentals – what is Six Sigma and why it drives performance improvement
- The history and ongoing development of Six Sigma
- Defining and calculating Six Sigma
- The Common Six Sigma principles
- 5S – The most used Lean tool, reduces waste, reduces variation and improves productivity
- Voice of Customer
- Lean Fundamentals – how to identify the 8 wastes of Lean thinking
- Waste and Non-Value-Added Activity – erode profit you will learn how to identify, measure and plan to eliminate both
- Value Stream Mapping with SIPOC – quickly identify the end-to-end components of any process
- 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.
- Other process improvement methods. The challenges and when to use Six Sigma
- How to continue your Six Sigma growth
Who Should Attend
Lean Six Sigma is the globally recognised standard or organisations engaging in continuous improvement and the White Belt workshop provides and introductory understanding of tools, techniques and reasons for engaging in the process allowing every member of an organisation to make positive contributions.
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