Short Course: Lean Six Sigma

The ideas of Lean have existed for nearly three centuries but have gained alot more popularity in the last ten years. Small, mid-sized and large companies have applied Six Sigma to successfully increase profit and savings. Six Sigma is a data-driven approach that identifies and removes defects and waste in business processes to ensure that the business runs as effective as possible. Sigma refers to a way of measuring quality and performance by identifying defects and systemically removing them to continually improve business processes. This online tutorial will equip participants with the necessary skills to activate Six Sigma in their own organisations to ensure efficiency, increase flexibility and remove waste and lack of management.

Complete this Lean Six Sigma Skills online course, and discover how to:

• Understand Six Sigma and implement it within any organisation
• Understand and identify lean enterprise, lean manufacturing and lean principles
• Understand quality and how to rid products and processes from deficiencies
• Use the Kano model to evaluate value
• Promote customer satisfaction by maintaining a standard of quality
• Describe the regulation process
• Identify when poor quality is affecting areas of appraisal, inspection costs, internal failure costs and external failure costs
• Use a criteria to evaluate project and processes
• Identify root causes to various problems
• Installing controls to prevent the problem from returning