LEAN Six Sigma Green Belt

Concepts:

• Eliminating Waste
• Reducing Defects
• Reducing Time
• Reducing Total Costs
• Continuous Improvement
• Employee Empowerment and Ownership
• Process Performance Visualization
• Practical Six Sigma Application
• Using a Methodology
• Understanding Process Variation
• Project planning
• Cross-functional Team Building
• Measurement System Analysis
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis

Length: Three Weeks (15 days)

Pricing: Contact us for group or individual rates

Topics:

• Lean Theory
  • Hoshin Kanri - Strategic Planning
  • Genchi Genbutsu & Gemba Walks - Focused Observations & Management by Walking Around (MBWA)
  • Creating Flow - Streamlining Business, Manufacturing, and Service Processes
• A3 Thinking and Planning Document - Foundational planning document for LEAN projects
• The 8 Wastes - Categories for defining and identifying non-value added activities and waste in a process
• 6S - A system for baselining organization and safety in the workplace
• Spaghetti Diagrams and Waste Walks - Methods to determine the actual scope of the inefficiency of a process
• Value Stream Mapping - Tactic to quantify the process parameters such as Takt Time, Inventory, and Process Interfaces
• SMED - Single Minute Exchange of Dies or Set-up Reduction
• Poka Yoke - Error Proofing
• Kanban Systems - Inventory & Production Pull Systems
• Visual Workspace and Daily Management Boards - Operation and Process Dashboards & Metric Development
• Six Sigma Theory
  • DMAIC Methodology - Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control
  • Focus on the Process
  • Common and Special Cause Variation
  • Variation as the Enemy to Efficient and Effective Processes
• Define
  • Project Charter - Foundational and Governing Document for Six Sigma Projects
  • SIPOC - Process Mapping
  • CTQ Tree - Critical to Quality analysis
  • Kano Model
  • Cost of Quality Analysis
• Measure
  • GAGE R&R and Measurement System Analysis (MSA)
  • Historical Data Collection
  • Data Collection Planning
• Analyze
  • Failure Mode and Effect Analysis - FMEA for Risk Assessment
  • Machine Capability Studies
  • Pareto Charts
  • Simple Linear Regression
• Improve
  • Design of Experiments (DOE) - Design of Experiments are used to create manageable experiments to test the critical few process inputs vs. outputs
  • Standard Work Development
  • Process Re-engineering
• Control
• Control Charts
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Layered Process Audits
• Key Performance Indicator Development
• Visual Workspace & Daily Management Boards
• Kaizen
• Incentivization
• Balanced Score Card & Strategy Mapping
• Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)