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To remain competitive, companies must improve their processes: eliminating non-value-added waste and reducing variation. While at first glance Lean and Six Sigma may look very different, they can work hand-in-hand to improve processes, increase quality, drive out costs, and make manufacturers more profitable.
Six Sigma is a customer-focused methodology that incorporates a formal process and a variety of tools, including statistical analysis, to reduce the variation that causes defects. Lean Manufacturing focuses on eliminating non-value added activities from the company’s processes, including defects.
The Lean Sigma Overview explains how these seemingly dissimilar approaches complement one another and teaches several non-statistical problem solving tools that can be used immediately to discover the root cause of defects and other problems.
Workshop Content
Variation
• Defining Six Sigma
• Understanding variation
• How variation relates to Lean
Defects
• What is a defect?
• Where defects hide (the hidden factory)
• Key to reducing defects is to reduce variation
DMAIC Methodology
• Define: Project checklist, scope, process maps, problem statements.
• Measure: Data collection approaches, affect of measurement system on variation.
• Analyze: Look at data visually through the use of some six sigma tools, such as histogram, pareto, scatter diagram, control chart, cause and effect, 5 whys.
• Improve: Create possible solutions for root causes, select solutions, implement, measure and evaluate to validate improvement; error proofing.
• Control: Control plans, institutionalizing the changes
The training materials can be customized to use actual examples from your company, and participant teams will follow a specific real-life problem through the DMAIC journey in a series of exercises.
Benefits of the Lean Sigma Overview
Armed with an awareness of how Lean and Six Sigma work together, participants will leave this overview with a plan to attack real-life problems. They will have readily applicable tools to help them determine root cause and an understanding of the effect of variation on the process and product quality. |
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