Categories: Process Improvement & Six Sigma ,  Process Improvement and Lean

Lean Sigma™ Overview

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma have rapidly become major news within UK Manufacturing. Yet, a major issue concerns whether these approaches are complementary or in conflict, and which should be first on the agenda. This overview session will review the two approaches in terms of the '8 Deadly Wastes' to highlight the creation of a Lean Sigma™ strategy.

Course Content
Introduction to Lean Sigma™
- Objectives & outcomes
- Introduction to Lean Sigma

Overview of Lean Manufacturing
- The Kaizen approach
- Value Adding vs Waste
- Manufacturing Wastes
- Introduction to 5S
- Introduction to Visual Management
- Value Stream Mapping
- Case Study Example
- The Lean Manufacturing Toolbox – additional tools

Overview of Six Sigma
- Six Sigma performance
- Variation and its consequences
- The development and application of Six Sigma
- The Six Sigma toolbox
- Using Six Sigma to achieve corporate goals
- Identifying Six Sigma projects
- Measuring process performance
- The technical meaning of Six Sigma
- Rolled throughput yield and the hidden factory
- Complexity versus Capability
- Process and design – based approaches
- The Six Sigma improvement pat
- Critical success factors
- The DMAIC process: Define - Measure - Analyse - Improve - Control

How to integrate Lean & Six Sigma
- The Lean Contribution to Six Sigma:
The benefits of inventory reduction
The concepts of one-piece flow
Encouraging action-based team approach

- The Six Sigma Contribution to Lean:
Using statistical tools to solve problems caused by variability
Focus on defects caused by integration of several variables

- Lean Sigma Structure:
Lean Sigma Black Belts/Green Belts/Yellow Belts
Integrating the tools of Lean Sigma™
The Project-based approach