Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Overview

Many organisations, managers and executives are aware of Lean Six Sigma as a phrase; but what is it and can it help improve my business? Lean and Six Sigma, both proven business improvement approaches, provide businesses with the ability to maximise customer, employee and shareholder value by minimising process variation and waste. The aim of this two day Yellow Belt programme is to improve the understanding and awareness of the team members. Yellow Belts will become effective team members faster which will result in improved performance and reduced timescales for your Lean Six Sigma projects.

The course is aimed at all staff wishing to understand how Lean Six Sigma can be used to deliver process improvement projects in the work place.

Find out more details on the Lean Six Sigma Certification information page.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course except a willingness to participate and an open mind.

Delegates will learn how to

• The principles of quality improvement
• The DMAIC improvement model and the key activities required at each stage.
• The importance of determining and understanding customer requirements.
• Basics of measuring and analysing performance
• Identification and evaluation of potential solutions
• Establishing ongoing process control and improvement

Course Outline

The course, which includes a number of group exercises, covers:

• Lean Six Sigma Introduction
• Understanding variability
• Lean Principles and waste
• Process basics
• Defining Customer Value
• Cost of Poor Quality
• DMAIC overview
• Critical to Quality requirements
• SIPOC diagrams
• Measurement basics Collecting data
• Basic data analysis-Pareto, histograms and run charts
• Process mapping
• Cause and effect - Ishikawa diagrams
• Brain storming techniques
• Evaluating and developing solutions
• FMEA risk analysis
• Statistical Process Control overview