First steps towards Lean Six Sigma expertise: get your Yellow Belt certification!

The Yellow Belt Lean 6 Sigma training course provides a basic understanding of Lean, and practical tools and techniques for making improvements as a stakeholder or employee in an improvement project, or as part of a department’s continuous improvement program. This way of working creates more value for the customer, the department or the organization as a whole.

Training type: Open classroom and In Company

This training will enable you to

  • Recognize what Lean 6 Sigma is

  • Recognize improvement techniques

  • Explain what the Lean philosophy implies

  • Describe the fundamental concepts and improvement methods of Lean Six Sigma

  • Recognize potential improvements
  • Identify potential solutions to problems identified in a process

Pedagogical approach

Over two days, the course combines conceptual presentations, discussion and experience-sharing, practical exercises and application to a case study, game-based learning and the provision of a toolbox. Regular assessment of learning outcomes is provided by means of quizzes.

Content

  • Concept and basic principles of Six Sigma and Lean

    • History
    • Meaning of “six sigma” and the statistical approach
    • Roles and responsibilities in a Six Sigma organization
    • Basic principles of Lean (value and waste, flow and pull principles, continuous improvement, management dimensions)
  • DMAIC methodology
  • Business Game: Processing customer orders
  • Exercise: Defining an improvement project (“Define” from DMAIC)
  • Process mapping
  • Analyzing waste: Value Stream Mapping technique
  • Value Stream Mapping” exercise on the case of the business game
  • Cause analysis (fishbone technique – Ishikawa)
  • Ishikawa exercise
  • Business Game (part 2): reorganizing the process on the basis of waste and cause analysis

  • Solution development (brainstorming, “Poka Yoké”, implementation)

  • The 5S approach
  • Business Game (part 3): making the process as efficient as possible
  • Business Game conclusions: approach applied and results achieved
  • Anchoring the solution (ongoing monitoring)
  • Training summary and evaluation

This training is aimed for

  • Business Process Manager
  • Business Process Owner
  • Business Process Analyst
  • Business Process Operators
  • Sponsors
  • Business Process Improvement Contributors

No prerequisites are required.

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