Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Workshop Overview


Six Sigma for Explosive Profit Growth

This workshop introduces the fundamentals of Six Sigma to participants. It provides an overview of the Six Sigma methodologies and an introduction to process management using the basic tools of Six Sigma. The workshop gives the attendees a stronger understanding of Six Sigma, providing each participant the opportunity to practice some of the tools and see their effects on the bottom line. Participants gain the skills necessary to identify, monitor and control profit eating practices in their business processes.
The six sigma methodology expands the Lean practitioners measurement and problem solving skills. It adds a disciplined methodology to data analysis and focuses the company on the reduction of waste and variation. The six sigma philosophy focuses particular attention to one specific waste identified by Ohno and that is the waste of poor quality products and services. Learn how poor quality impacts your bottom line and why you should strive for 6 sigma quality.




Learning Objectives

• Introduce six sigma terminology


• Understand the impact of poor quality


• What are the roles and responsibilities


• The six sigma process


• Next Steps



Program Agenda

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Introduction


• What is Six Sigma


• Why implement Six Sigma


• Six Sigma Roles, Responsibilities and Organization


• The Enemy Named Variation


• Special Causes Vs Common Causes


• Hands-on Exercises Set #1


• First Pass Yield and the Hidden Factory


• Seeing the Enemy in Action


• Process Improvement Tools


• Process Flow, Input Process Output and Cause and Effect Diagrams


• Pareto Chart. Run Chart and Control Charts


• Development of SoPs


• Histogram


• Introduction to FMEA


• Hands-on Exercises Set #2


• Removing the Effect of the Enemy


• Measuring Cost of Poor Quality


• Converting Variance Reduction to $ Savings


• Maintaining the gain with SPC


• Summary






Who Should Attend?


Executives (President, SVPs, VPs), Senior Management (Directors, General Managers), Engineering Managers, Operations Managers, Service Managers, Quality Professionals, and anyone else interested in improving their and their firm’s productivity.

There is an upper limit of 30 attendees. In order to hold this workshop, a big enough classroom is required where catapult firing exercises could be performed concurrently by 5-teams of 6 people each. 




Prerequisites


Novices to KAIZEN Lean implementation should attend 'Introduction To KAIZEN Lean' first to familiarize themselves with the basic concepts and principles of KAIZEN Lean.