Six Sigma Program Features and Course Content

Features
  • Instructors with high technical competency and industrial experience
  • Top quality training materials
  • Customized training programs available
  • Private on-site group training and public courses offered

Benefits

  • Assistance in building the Six Sigma infrastructure for effective returns
  • Guidance for initial project selection
  • Support consulting services provided
  • No subcontracting

Results

  • Nearly $400 million in cost savings to various Fortune 500 companies through 15+ years as Business Performance consultants
  • High degree of customer satisfaction demonstrated through long-term relationships with clients

Course Content

Executive Overview

Content Summary

  Prerequisite: None
  • Six Sigma Explained and Potential Results
  • Historical Development of Six Sigma
  • What's Old and What's New
  • Common Mistakes and Pitfalls
  • Implementation Strategy
  • Training Requirements
  • Case Studies
Personnel: Upper management who will be overseeing Six Sigma and managing the Master Black Belts
Description: Includes information on policy deployment, key performance indicators, project selection and financial commitment
Time: 1 to 2 days
Champion Training

Content Summary

  Prerequisite: None
  • Six Sigma Explained, Potential results, Case Studies
  • Champion Roles and Responsibilities
  • Technical aspects of Six Sigma and Statistical Analyses Overview
  • Business Analysis
  • How to Implement Six Sigma
  • Six Sigma Infrastructure
  • Black Belt and Master Black Belt Selection
  • Project Selection, Deployment, Monitoring and Management
  • Managing Organizational Issues
  • Implementation Workshop
Personnel: Senior executives and managers, such as a vice president or director of manufacturing or marketing
Description: The course covers basic and introductory and advanced statistical tools.
Time: 1 week
Black Belt Training

Content Summary

 

Prerequisite:


Personnel:




Description:


Time:

Technical degree or equivalent 

Black Belt might be an engineer or billing administrator with five years or more of experience

The course covers basic and advanced statistical tools 

4 weeks

WEEK 1
  • What is Six Sigma?
  • Drivers of Business Performance
  • Effective Teaming
  • DMAIC
  • Using Data Effectively
  • Introduction to Statistical Methods
  • Simple Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Estimation
  • Process Variation
  • Measurement Systems Analysis
  • Process Characterization

WEEK 2

  • Analyze (DMAIC)
  • The Scientific Method
  • Problems and Causes
  • Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
  • Sample Size Calculations
  • One-sample Hypothesis Tests
  • Correlation and Regression
  • Two Independent Sample Hypothesis Tests
  • Two Dependent Sample Hypothesis Tests
  • Foundations of Experimental Design

WEEK 3

  • Improve (DMAIC)
  • Two-way ANOVA Models
  • Three-way and Higher ANOVA Models
  • Fractional Experimental Designs
  • Confirmation Experiments

WEEK 4

  • Control (DMAIC)
  • Prevention Planning and Analysis
  • Statistical Process Control Chart Methods
  • Process Performance Analysis
  • Principles of Robust Product and Process Design
  • Mistake-proofing
  • Introduction to Automatic Control Systems
  • Principles of Standardization
  • Reliability Methods
  • Black Belt Project
   
   
   
Master Black Belt Training Content Summary
  Prerequisite: Technical degree or equivalent and Black Belt training
  • Complete content for Black Belt Training
  • Black Belt Project
  • Champion Curriculum Training
  • Advanced Statistics and Online Experimental Design Training
 
Personnel: Master Black Belt might be a chief engineer or head of customer service
Description: The course covers basic and advanced statistical tools in much greater detail.
Time: 3-4 weeks
Green Belt Training

Content Summary

  Prerequisite: Technical and support background Luftig & Warren will assist you in customizing your own Green Belt training. Typical content may include:
  • Fundamentals of Six Sigma
  • Effective Teaming
  • DMAIC Concepts
  • Using Data Effectively
  • Basics of Statistical Methods
  • Basics of Probability and Estimation
  • Understanding Process Variation
  • Measurement Systems Analysis
Personnel: Current positions are associated with the problem that needs to be solved
Description: The course covers basic statistical tools
Time: 2-3 weeks
Design for Six Sigma Black Belt Training

Content Summary

  Prerequisite: Technical degree or equivalent 
  • Introduction to Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
  • Business/Marketing Plan Development
  • Establishing and Integrating the voice of the customer
  • Market research
  • Effective Teaming
  • Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  • Design Fulfillment
    • Development Concepts
    • Identification of critical design parameters
    • Process performance assessment
    • Manufacturing risk management thru Design FMEA
    • Automatic Control concepts
    • Statistical Tolerancing
    • Project control through with design reviews
  • Design Verification and Full Production
    • Design Assessment
    • Short and Long term production assessment
Personnel: Design or process engineers who will be redesigning products or production processes
Description:  
Time:

5 weeks.

Note: The extension course
for converting existing Master Black Belts to Design for Six Sigma Master Black Belts is 2 weeks.