Lean Process and Six Sigma 

COURSE OVERVIEW

During the last couple of decades small, mid-sized and Fortune 500 companies have embraced Six Sigma to generate more profit and greater savings. So what is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a data-driven approach for eliminating defects and waste in any business process. You can compare Six Sigma with turning your water faucet and experiencing the flow of clean, clear water. Reliable systems are in place to purify, treat, and pressure the water through the faucet. That is what Six Sigma does to business: it treats the processes in business so that they deliver their intended result.

What is “Sigma”? The word is a statistical term that measures how far a given process deviates from perfection. Sigma is a way to measure quality and performance. The central idea behind Six Sigma is that if you can measure how many “defects” you have in a process, you can systematically figure out how to eliminate them and get as close to “zero defects” as possible. This course will give students an overview of the Six Sigma methodology, and some of the tools required to deploy Six Sigma in their own organizations.

$429 CAD

Lean Process and Six Sigma Course
  • About Six Sigma
  • About Lean
  • History Behind Lean
  • Toyota Production Systems
  • The Toyota Precepts
  • Knowledge Check
  • Philosophy
  • Process
  • People and Partners
  • Problem Solving
  • Knowledge Check
  • The Goals of TPS
  • The First Pillar: Just In Time (JIT)
  • The Second Pillar: Jidoka (Error-Free Production)
  • Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)
  • The Foundation of the House
  • Knowledge Check
  • Value
  • Value Stream
  • Flow
  • Pull
  • Seek Perfection
  • Knowledge Check
  • Basic Characteristics
  • Satisfiers
  • Delighters
  • Applying the Kano Model
  • Knowledge Check
  • Muda
  • Mura
  • Muri
  • The New Wastes
  • Knowledge Check
  • Common Cause
  • Special Cause
  • Tampering
  • Structural
  • Knowledge Check
  • What is Complexity?
  • What Causes Complexity?
  • How to Simplify?
  • Knowledge Check
  • The PDSA Cycle (Plan, Do, Study, Act)
  • The DMAIC Method
  • Knowledge Check
  • Gemba
  • Genchi Genbutsu
  • Womack’s Principle
  • Kaizen
  • A Roadmap for Implementation
  • Knowledge Check
**These programs are not required to be approved under the Ontario Career Colleges Act, 2005