Course description
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification Program - Build a Knowledge Base of the Facets of Lean Six Sigma: On-Demand
This course is designed to teach you the fundamental concepts of Lean Six Sigma and enable you to achieve IIL's Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification.
The Lean Six Sigma methodology is focused on improving business performance, reducing costs, and increasing efficiency and productivity. In this course, you'll get an introduction to what Lean Six Sigma is about, including its vision, key metrics, and the DMAIC process (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) which is the foundation of Lean Six Sigma and the de facto tool for process improvement.
Improved processes result in higher quality, lower costs, and increased customer satisfaction!
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who Should Attend
Anyone interested in learning the fundamental principles, concepts, and terminology of Lean Six Sigma will benefit tremendously from this course. As any trained Lean Six Sigma Black Belt will attest, having an in-depth understanding of Lean Six Sigma has changed the way they think about challenges and the answers they seek when issues arise. Utilizing real-world examples and hands-on exercises this course will demonstrate the power behind process management, data-based thinking, and management by fact. Executives, managers, support employees, account managers, sales representatives, and operational managers who support Lean Six Sigma internally or externally through customers engaged in this initiative should not miss this opportunity. This class is also perfect for employees who will participate on a Lean Six Sigma team or those wanting to add this valued skill set to the professional resume.
Prerequisites
None
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification Requirements
Candidates for IIL’s Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification must attend the Yellow Belt Certification Program and achieve a passing score (70% or higher) on a 30-question multiple-choice exam.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Benefits of Lean Six Sigma
- Gives leadership a standard, data-driven approach to improving results
- Gives project managers a set of understandable steps and tools to improve project effectiveness
- Generates higher net income by lowering operating costs
- Improves product and service quality through defect prevention and reduction
- Improves customer satisfaction and retention by identifying and meeting customer requirements
- Improves employee satisfaction by reducing rework
What You Will Learn
You will learn how to:
- Establish the structure that supports and sustains Lean Six Sigma Quality
- Identify and calculate key Lean Six Sigma Measurements (Sigma, DPMO and Yield)
- Select successful, high-impact projects that match to strategic objectives
- Document, measure and improve key processes using the DMAIC (Define,
- Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) Methodology
- Utilize data-based thinking to make key business decisions
Training Course Content
Day One or eLearning Session One and Two: Introduction to the Fundamentals and Vision of Lean Six Sigma. Topics include:
- Lean Six Sigma’s focus on the customer, on quality, and on results
- The costs of poor quality
- Critical factors to consider when deploying Lean Six Sigma
- Lean Six Sigma as a process improvement methodology
- Lean Six Sigma metrics
- Why do it – ROI and payback for Lean Six Sigma
- Business Process Management
- Critical Lean Six Sigma roles and responsibilities
- Main aspects of managing the organizational change
- Project selection
Day Two or eLearning Session Two, Three, and Four: Metrics of Lean Six Sigma and the DMAIC Model.
This part of the course will focus on the systematic and proven use of the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) Methodology to dramatically reduce current process defects. Participants will practice using the common tools and techniques behind each phase through interactive exercises. Topics include:
- How to strategically align business metrics and projects within an organization
- How to identify and measure quality characteristics which are critical to customers
- What does the customer (internal or external) really want from our products and services?
- Establishing appropriate teams and setting those teams up to be successful
- What defines a good measurement system?
- How are we doing (learning the secret to measuring the right things, right)?
- How to improve output measures by understanding and measuring the process
- Where are there defects (how to properly select and scope high-impact projects)?
- Where is the process broken (the Lean Six Sigma version of root cause analysis)?
- How to determine the process efficiency, or value add, of a process
- The appropriate use of quality tools
- Understanding the concept of variation and how to reduce knee-jerk reactions
- How to achieve breakthrough results for any key measure
- How can we ensure the identified improvements will be sustainable (the basics of process control)?
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