Lean Six Sigma Green Belt DMAIC

Target audience

The Green Belt is the ideal entry level for team leaders and staff driving process improvement. 

This includes:

• production and operations managers
• quality managers and process improvement specialists
• project leaders managing improvement projects

Our approach

• The Green Belt course consists of 3 work sessions each of 3 consecutive days.
• Each work session offers a mix of theoretical foundation and practical exercises.
• Each participant should preferably have a project regarding process improvement.
• During the training, there are feedback moments of the progress and possible problems in these projects.
• Each session provides the opportunity for exchanging experiences with other participants.
• At the end of the training an exam is administered and participants who get a score of 70% or higher will receive a Green Belt Training Certificate.

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What can you expect?

• Analysis techniques to recognise waste in your own business processes.
• Project prioritisation tools based on the differences between chronic and acute problems.
• Selection criteria for choosing the right approach/tools regarding the defined problem.
• A thorough knowledge of the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC methodology:
  • As a project management structure
  • As a statistic toolbox
  • As a lean toolbox
  • As a problem-solving toolbox
• Teamwork approach in process improvement projects.
• Change Management approach by managing a process improvement project.

Programme: step by step according to DMAIC

Diagnose

• Basic philosophy of Lean-Six Sigma DMAIC
• Lean principles: value, value stream (mapping), create flow, establish pull, pursue perfection
• Identifying wastes in the process: 7 technical + 3 human wastes
• Chronic vs. Acute variation: the Kepner-Tregoe approach to acute variation

Define

• Defining your process improvement project (business case, project charter, social contract, stakeholder analysis, communication plan)
• Visualisation of the process (SIPOC, flow chart, value stream mapping, ...)
• Voice-of-the-customer (KANO, CTQs, ...)
• Building and managing your project team

Measure

• Funnelling (priority matrix, FMEA)
• Data collection plan (TAKT-time, lead time cycle time, operational definition, sampling, …)
• Visualisation of data (histogram, pareto chart, time-plot, box-plot, …)

Analyse

• Root cause analysis (5 WHYs, Ishikawa, 6 Ms)
• Value added - non value added analysis
• Data-analysis (stratification, hypothesis testing, regression)

Improve

• Generate, evaluate and select the solutions (brainstorming, creativity, selection-  and decision-making techniques)
• Creating an efficient process: linking value added activities accourding to the pace and the demand of the customer
• Lean Toolbox: 5S, line balancing, visual management, standard work, Kaizen, Poka Yoke, …

Control

• Control charts (Statistical Process Control) and process capabilities
• Securing the results: standardisation, documentation, training, …

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Certification

• Training certificate: you complete the course and achieve a score of at least 70% in the exam.
• Green Belt certificate: you then also carry out an improvement project following the DMAIC roadmap. Stanwick can guide you through this. Following your final presentation, you will receive the Green Belt certificate.