Accelerated Six Sigma

Overview

A Simplified, Powerful Approach to Achieving Dramatic Results

Six Sigma tools and techniques are helping GE, Bank of America, Allied Signal, and Motorola achieve dramatic cost savings and quality improvement. With this seminar, you will jump-start your efforts to capture these benefits for your own organization in your manufacturing, service and back office operations.

Employ our simplified, powerful approach to Six Sigma and achieve dramatic increases in customer satisfaction and radical reductions in quality problems. We cover much of the standard curriculum of Green Belt training.

In this workshop, you will practice and use Six Sigma methods so you can go back and implement improvements in your own organization.

Discover where your company can solve problems right in the workshop. If you don’t know which process to work on, you’ll be given the tools to prioritize them in the session.

Seminar Benefits

At the end of the seminar you will know how to:

• Gain a full understanding of what Six Sigma is and how to implement it
• Learn Six Sigma tools to achieve breakthroughs in quality and cost reduction
• Apply the tools to your most challenging process right in the workshop
• Use the appropriate Six Sigma tool depending upon your specific needs
• Achieve both bottom line and “soft” cost savings
• Organize your organization’s Six Sigma improvement effort
• Gain buy-in from both upper management and staff
• Prioritize improvement opportunities 
• Facilitate improvement efforts

Seminar Outline

Overview of Six Sigma

What is Six Sigma?

History of Six Sigma

Comparing and contrasting Six Sigma to TQM and Reengineering

Six Sigma success stories

Six Sigma in manufacturing and service organizations

How Six Sigma is organized

              Champion

              Sponsor

              Black Belt

              Green Belt

              Teams

Overview of the Six Sigma DMAIC process (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control)

DMAIC process checklist

Breakthrough Project Selection

Levels of business processes

Prioritizing your company’s processes for improvement

Choosing a process to work on in this workshop

Define: Step One of DMAIC

Project Charter, Problem Statement, Stretch Goal, etc.

Voice of the Customer (VOC)

Converting VOC into Critical to Quality (CTQ) variable to measure

SIPOC Diagram

Customer and Supplier Evaluations

Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

Measure: Step Two of DMAIC

Measurement process and steps

Process Mapping

Fishbone, Cause & Effect, Ishikawa Diagrams

Checksheets

Pareto diagrams

Continuous and Discrete variables

Stratified sampling

Gauge R&R

DPMO

Rolled Throughput Yield

Project Storyboard

Analyze: Step Three of DMAIC

Logical cause analysis

Root cause analysis

Narrowing down root causes

5 Whys

Frequency plots

Histograms

Run charts

Scatter plots and correlation diagrams

Verifying root causes with data

Improve: Step Four of DMAIC

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Error-ProofingSelecting your optimal process

Developing an implementation plan

De-risk your process proposal

Implementation options

Control: Step Five of DMAIC

History of Statistical Process Control (SPC)

Cautions in SPC

Using Code Values to ease data collection

Control Charts—an overview

Choosing the right type of Control Chart

Process Capability Analysis

Control Plan

Making It Happen

Implementing Six Sigma in your organization

Piloting your Six Sigma effort

Change Leadership—Overcoming resistance

How to start

Barriers and success factors

Keys to Six Sigma Success

Your customized Six Sigma Plan

Testimonials

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