A joint offering by the College of Engineering and the School of Business
Accelerated Six Sigma
Introduction to Six Sigma
- What is Six Sigma and how is it organized?
- Champion, Sponsor, Teams
- Black, Green, Yellow Belts - Comparing and contrasting Six Sigma to TQM and reengineering
- Six Sigma in manufacturing and service organizations
- Nine steps to organizational implementation of Six Sigma
- How to apply what you learn to your process challenges
Getting Started with Six Sigma Approaches
- Measuring and calculating sigma levels
- Customer report card
- Supplier evaluation and partnering
- Six Sigma problem-solving process: define, measure, analyze, improve, control (DMAIC) methodology
Breakthrough Project Selection
- Strategy-driven Six Sigma
- Costing out a process calculating both hard and soft savings
- Calculating quality costs
- Prioritizing quality improvements
- Setting stretch goals that are SMART
- Writing project missions and setting project boundaries
Six Sigma Steps and Techniques
- Advantages to process mapping
- Process maps: functional and activity, task and procedural
- Assessing and evaluating process capability
- Information-gathering techniques for time and labor, quality and process costs
- Identifying and verifying root causes
Breakthrough Approaches to Employ
- Fast cycle time methods
- Lean Manufacturing and Enterprise approaches
- Conceiving breakthrough ideas — techniques beyond brainstorming
- Selecting the best ideas
- Writing a Six Sigma project plan
- Implementation options
Schedule
Evening before course — Optional dinner for those arriving early
Day 1 — 8:00 a.m – 4:30 p.m. Registration/Session
Day 2 — 8:00 – 4:30 p.m. Session
Day 3 — 8:00 – 3:30 p.m. Session
Day 3 — 3:30 p.m. Yellow Belt Exam