The Lean Six Sigma methodology is a systematic application that is focused on achieving significant financial results and increasing customer satisfaction. When properly deployed on carefully selected business projects, this methodology can lead to a significant reduction—and in many cases, elimination—of defects, process waste, and out-of-control processes, which translate into dramatic business gains.
The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Body of Knowledge is a compilation of comprehensive set of topics and subject matters that are intended to be representations of the universally and commonly accepted, minimum competencies and core proficiencies requisite of Lean Six Sigma Black Belts. This Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Body of Knowledge is diversely recognized as a relevant and practical version of the knowledge expectations of Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. It consists of covering the proven phases of Define Phase, Measure Phase, Analyze Phase, Improve Phase and Control Phase. These phases cover the primary sections of Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control phases, which are each broken down into sub-categories consisting of individual subject matter topics.
âś…Â Increase yield
âś… Reduce cost
âś… Reduce waste
âś… Reduce customer complains
âś… Reduce rework cost or eliminate rework
âś… Reduce inspection cost
âś… Enhance product quality
âś… On-time delivery
âś… Enhance safety
✅ Improve employees’ problem solving and decision making skills
âś… Improve efficiency
âś… Improve accuracy and control
âś… Improve customer service
âś… Improve cash flow
âś… Improve regulatory compliance
Fundamental Session – Lean Six Sigma Concepts Why Lean Six Sigma ?
Why Lean Six Sigma ?
âś… Be customer focused: Be on-time, responsive, flexible, and fast.
âś…Â Simplify and standardize work flows: Mimic continuous flow, minimize WIP, use visible measures.
✅ Manage capacity: Increase process uptime, reduce set-up times, find “lost” capacity.
âś… Eliminate waste: Identify non-value adding activities, then modify, combine, or eliminate those tasks.
âś… JIT: Not too early and never late; not just-in-case inventory but just-in time production and delivery; products must always be made right the first time; equipment must always work when needed.
Lean Terminology – Terms, Tools and Techniques.
Eliminate Waste with Lean
âś… Identify the waste
âś… Identify the types of waste
âś… Use pull scheduling instead of push scheduling.
âś… Schedule to the rate-determining step (the bottleneck., then de-bottleneck process lines.
âś… Facilitate fast feedback:
Components of Lean
âś… Overview of the Components of Lean: Value Stream Mapping, Workplace Organization, Predictability & Consistency, Set-up Reduction, TPM, Visual Factory, Support Processes, & Continuous Improvement.
Lean Thinking
âś… Eliminating waste is not limited to manufacturing; the same techniques apply to the office, sales, finance, maintenance, and even R&D processes and procedures.
Lean & Six Sigma are complementary.
âś… Identify process goals.
âś… Key Process Input Variables
âś… Key Process Output Variables
âś… Collect & analyse process data.
âś… Work flow analysis to determine how to minimize high volume travel
distances.
âś… Identify and remove bottlenecks, & move to pull manufacturing with kanbans.
âś… Communicate the why, what, how, & who.
âś… Provide education in the concepts.
âś… Train employees in tools & techniques as needed to achieve a flexible workforce.
Data Drives Lean
âś… Focus efforts on projects that lead to tangible saving.
âś… Calculation techniques to generate data include: Time studies, equipment loading, TAKT time, staffing requirements, process yields, & CTQ.
Road map for Lean
âś… Start with the people issues.
âś… Focus on workplace organization then, use value stream analysis and process work flow analysis to establish effective layouts.
âś… Where to focus next depends on specific needs.
âś… Use targeted Kaizen events to speed changes.
âś… Do not overlook the need to modify support processes
This module will give an introduction to some of the history of lean, how this has developed into a business system and provides a detailed explanation of the principles behind how lean can be made to work in any business. In this module you will learn that successful implementation of lean demand the involvement of people across the organization.
âś… Introduction of Lean Management
âś… Principle of Lean Thinking
✅ The principle that the customer defines value – beginning of lean improvement activity
âś… The importance of delivering customer value without waste using Value Stream Thinking, Flow in the work place and delivering the value.
âś… Standard work in order
âś… Personal commitment and change our action, habits, values and belief
âś… Power of A3 Thinking for process improvement
âś… A3 Thinking for root cause analysis and practical solution
âś… A3 Thinking for visual process which can reduce the very common of waste and rework
âś… Moving forward in our organization
Base Line Analysis is the engine of change that builds the future state vision piece by piece. We do this by involving people who work in the process to help make it happen and the key differentiator between Rapid Process Improvement and most other improvement activities is the real change is delivered within short time period.
âś… Process focus
âś… Identification and elimination of barriers to flow
âś… Flow and the economies of flow
âś… Understanding of Variation
âś… Wastes (Muda), Fluctuation (Mura) and Overburden (Muri)
âś… Connect and align value added work fragments
✅ Match rate of production to level of customer demand – just in time
✅ Scientific thinking – stability, standardization, recognize abnormality, go and see
âś… Jidoka
âś… Quality at the source
âś… No defects passed forward
âś… Separate man from machine
âś… Multi process handling
âś… Self detection of error
âś… Stop and fix
âś… Seek Perfection
âś…Â Incremental continuous improvement (Kaizen)
âś… Breakthrough continuous improvement (Kaikaku)
âś… Total System Value Stream Mapping to analyse the problems and wastes
âś… Visual workplace – to analyse waste in the process
âś… 5S standards and discipline
âś… Production, Process and Preparation (3P) to identify the wastes
âś… Total Productive Maintenance – 16 Manufacturing Losses, OEE, MTTR, MTBF
âś… Standard Work – Time Study in the process
âś… Strategic Business Assessment – Productivity indicators analysis
âś… Rapid Breakthrough Improvement Process Methodology
âś… Lean Six Sigma Approach
âś… Project Management Application
The seeing waste module review the differing approach to improvement and then looks at the different types of process waste and discuss why process mapping is a good way of identifying this waste. As with all aspects of lean, the collection of supporting data is a pre- requisite to delivering a good result and process mapping is no different in needing supporting data.
This module will provide you with an overview of the process and then provides downloads that you will require in order to complete you own process mapping. One of the fundamental skills to help drive a lean transformation is problem solving. For problem solving to be successful organisation wide we need a structured process that everyone can use. This module will go through the fundamental around such a problem solving and corrective action process that you will then be able to use in your own organisation.
The Basics of Six Sigma
The Fundamentals of Six Sigma
Selecting Lean Six Sigma Projects
Strategies of Implementing Lean and Six Sigma in an organization
Lean and Six Sigma Implementation Case Study
Project Charter Case Study
Process Definition
Introduction to Minitab
Six Sigma Statistics
Measurement System Analysis
Process Capability
Measurement System Analysis Case Study
Patterns of Variation
Inferential Statistics
Hypothesis Testing
Hypothesis Testing with Normal Data
Hypothesis Testing with Non-Normal Data
Lean Controls
SPC
Control Plans
In this module, you will have the opportunity to reflect on the application of your learning in the workplace. Further more it is most important that you allocate sufficient time to complete any outstanding actions from your activities. As defined in the earlier modules RBI cycle, going to Gemba and helping the team to problem solve and get the result is crucial at this stage.
Principles of Business Results
âś… Create value based on organization performance
âś… Measure customer needs and wants
âś… Guidelines for measurement
Measurement System
âś… Align with customer needs
âś… Measure the whole system
âś… Measure flow and waste
âś… Lean accounting
âś… Voice of the customer
âś… Goal and Objectives setting
âś… Reporting
Key Lean Indicators Related Measures
âś… Yield
âś… Quality matters
âś… Delivery
âś… Cost
âś… Financial Impact
âś… Competitive Impact