Accelerated Six Sigma
Take this course first, as it is the foundation for the Six Sigma series
The Six Sigma tools and techniques showcased in this fast-paced, interactive foundation course were first implemented by GE, AlliedSignal, Sony and Motorola. Learn how these companies succeeded in achieving dramatic cost savings and quality improvement through implementation of the DMAIC model. Then use the tools and techniques to capture these benefits for your own organization in your manufacturing, service and back-office operations. After completing this course and its exam, you will be Yellow Belt certified.
Work on your own Six Sigma project during class
In this course, you will practice and use Six Sigma methods to help radically improve your own business processes so you will be able to go back and immediately implement breakthrough improvements in your own organization. Bring your quality, cost and response time challenges to this course and leave with the ability to successfully deal with those issues. We will break down the problem and work on it throughout the course.
Who should attend?
This course is helpful for both individuals and teams. Teams benefit from practicing together with the tools and techniques.
- Department heads
- Operations managers and supervisors
- Business process improvement teams
- Project managers
You’ll learn to:
- Use Six Sigma tools to achieve breakthroughs in quality and cost reduction
- Achieve both bottom-line and “soft” cost savings
- Gain a full understanding of what Six Sigma is and how to implement it through the DMAIC model
- Learn methods to break down your most difficult processes and rebuild them with less variance and waste
- Learn how to integrate Six Sigma with waste elimination, the basis of Lean models
- Communicate the value of your Six Sigma process improvements to gain buy-in from both upper management and staff
- Overcome the barriers to process optimization
YOU are the course content!
As soon as you register, start thinking about the processes you’d like to improve in your own organization. Bring these to the class…and leave with specific solutions in hand for immediate ROI.
“I thoroughly enjoyed the three days of ‘Accelerated Six Sigma’ course instruction last week with Jim Bandrowski. Jim brings a wealth of practical experience to his excellent instruction, and is absolutely an asset to your program! The course was fun, practical and applicable to my work environment. Governmental entities tend to lag behind the private sector in terms of embracing and applying a measurement-based strategy that focuses on process improvement and variation reduction. Mr. Bandrowski illustrated how this methodology can be applied not only to the manufacturing environment from which it first evolved, but also to the service industry and to governmental processes. I’m looking forward to applying the knowledge I gained during this course to the projects and assignments I’ll be working on here in the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.”
Margie Kriel, Auditor, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison, WI
“It was great to get enough knowledge in one course where you can go back and apply it to your organization.”
Vicki Buss, Wick Building Supply, Mazomanie, WI
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a member of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), authorizes this course for 2.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 21 hours, as well as 21 PDUs.
jcorkery@exed.wisc.edu