Lean Six Sigma Training - Quality Tool

Lean Six Sigma Training - Quality Tool

Six Sigma is an excellent quality control tool. It is a successor to the earlier quality control methods such as Kaizen and Total Quality Management which were very popular Japanese quality control tools till the 1980s. They were able to give a quality yield of 3 Sigma.   However, Motorola which used the Six Sigma techniques to reduce the variation in electronic manufacturing managed to stretch the process of quality control to Six Sigma which gave a near perfect yield of 99.999886 %. Such is thus the limit of Six Sigma and since then management professionals are doing Six Sigma training to be able to be part of Six Sigma teams of the organisations.  

The process of Six Sigma involves almost all the employees of the organisation. The Six Sigma project is undertaken with lot of scrutiny. It starts only when the top management is sure that a defect really exists in the manufacturing process or in a service. Once the Six Sigma project begins it tends to envelop all the employees for whom the success of the Six Sigma project becomes their personal liability. The line workers are sent for a week’s Lean Six Sigma course to be termed as Green Belts. The junior managers do two weeks to four weeks Six Sigma training to become Black Belts. Similarly, middle level mangers do the Master Black Belt course of six weeks duration. They then assist the green and Black Belts in doing the projects. Finally, there are Project Champions who are the management’s choice under whose supervision the whole project takes place. This is the chain of command for Six Sigma projects which you shall learn about in Six Sigma certification course.

As a technique, Six Sigma is a metric as well as a methodology. The metric of having only 3.4 defects in a million opportunities is the wish figure of every enterpreauner. As a methodology Six Sigma addresses the core of business strategy of the modern era, that is, the voice of the customer. It is the customer who specifies the design and features and to some extent the price too of a product. The Six Sigma teams endeavour to meet all the specification desires of the customers. The Six Sigma is the best quality control tool and is the ultimate brand of marketing strategy too. When both the metric and the methodology of Six Sigma combine, it becomes a complete management system which improves all the business processes. Thus doing Lean Six Sigma certification makes you a complete management professional.

The process of Six Sigma from start to finish is controlled by another management tool called DMAIC. It is a very logical approach to problem solving. The defect is first defined. This requires study of feedback data received directly or indirectly from customers. Once the defect has been defined then they measure it viz how much is the defect percentage. Then analysis takes place to find out various options of solutions available and choosing the best of them. The best solution is then implemented and the new process is then controlled till the process improves and the new process is fully accepted by employees as well as customers. Thus Six Sigma training empowers you to b the implementer of the progressive process