Lean Six Sigma DMAIC Essentials

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The online Lean Six Sigma DMAIC Essentials course, written and facilitated by the author of the latest Six Sigma Handbooks, provides 11 Lessons, plus 5 videos, detailing the application of the Six Sigma DMAIC methodology (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) to lean and process improvement projects. 

Each lesson in this online Six Sigma training course includes:

  • Detailed slides with Notes.
  • Interactive Exercises.
  • Study Guide Questions to test your knowledge.
  • Online Glossary and References for further information

Registration in the online Lean Six Sigma DMAIC Essentials training course includes:

  • Twelve months access to the online training materials including training slides, study guide, and additional Knowledge Center references.
  • Upon successful course completion: Electronic certificate indicating course completion.

The following eleven topics, with 5 videos, are included in the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC Essentials training course:

  1. Six Sigma Projects
    1. Project Focus
      1. Is it a Six Sigma Project?
      2. Customer Focused Projects
      3. Video: Customer Focus Overview
    2. Selecting Projects
      1. Video: Project Selection Using PM
      2. Video: Consensus Criteria Method
    3. Estimating Project Benefits
    4. Overview of DMAIC methodology
    5. Project Reporting
    6. Quiz
  2. DEFINE Stage Tools & Objectives
    1. Define Stage Objectives
    2. Project Charter: Use and Development
      1. Work Breakdown Structure.
      2. Pareto Diagrams.
      3. Process Maps.
      4. SIPOC
      5. Matrix Diagrams
    3. Quiz
  3. DEFINE: Metrics & Deliverables
    1. Critical to Quality (CTQ) Metrics
      1. Throughput Yield (and comparison to traditional yield)
      2. Rolled Throughput Yield
      3. Video: Rolled Throughput Yield Calculations
      4. Normalized Yield
      5. DPMO: Use and Misuse
      6. Sigma Level
      7. Video: DPMO & Sigma Level Calculations
    2. Critical to Schedule (CTS) Metrics
      1. Cycle Time
      2. Process Cycle Efficiency
      3. Process Velocity
      4. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
    3. Relation of CTQ and CTS Metrics to Critical to Cost (CTC) Metrics
    4. Quiz
  4. DEFINE: Project Financials
    1. Cost of Poor Quality
    2. Quantifying Project Benefits
    3. CTC Calculations
    4. Quiz
  5. DEFINE: Project Scheduling
    1. Scheduling Project Activities & Events
    2. Gantt Chart
    3. Critical Path Analysis / Activity Network Diagram.
    4. PERT Analysis
    5. Quiz
  6. DEFINE: Change Management and Six Sigma Teams
    1. Problems with Change
    2. Achieving Buy-In
    3. Team Formation, Rules & Responsibilities
      1. Stages of Team Development
      2. Overcoming Problems
    4. Consensus Building
      1. Affinity Diagram
      2. Nominal Group Technique
      3. Prioritization Matrix
    5. Quiz
  7. Measure Stage Tools and Objectives
    1. Measure Stage Objectives
    2. Process Definition (Flowcharts, Process Maps, SIPOC)
    3. Metric Definition
    4. Establishing Process Baseline
      1. Enumerative vs. Analytic Statistics.
      2. Process Variation (Deming's Red Bead)
      3. Benefits of Control Charts.
      4. Requirements vs. Control (Tampering)
      5. Control Chart as Process Baseline Tool
    5. Quiz
  8. Analyze Stage Tools & Objectives
    1. Analyze Stage Objectives
    2. Definition of Waste
    3. Analyzing Process for NVA
      1. Cycle Efficiencies
      2. Lead Time and Velocity
      3. Takt Time
    4. Methods to Increase Velocity
      1. Standardization
      2. Optimization
      3. Spaghetti Diagrams
      4. Level Loading
      5. When are Batches More Efficient?
      6. Setup Reductions
    5. Quiz
  9. Improve Stage Tools and Objectives
    1. Improve Stage Objectives
    2. Tools to Prioritize Improvement Opportunities
    3. Defining New Process Flow
      1. Lean Tools to reduce NVA and Achieve Flow
      2. 5S
      3. Level Loading
    4. Tools to Define & Mitigate Failure Modes
      1. PDPC
      2. FMECA
      3. Preventing Failures
    5. Reference to Tools for Defining New Process Levels
    6. Quiz
  10. Control Stage Tools & Objectives
    1. Control Stage Objectives
    2. Methods of Control
    3. Control Plans
    4. Training
    5. Measuring Improvement
    6. Quiz
  11. Design for Six Sigma Overview
    1. Methodology
    2. Tools for DFSS
    3. System, Parameter and Tolerance Designs
    4. Quiz