Who Should Attend?

This certified course is intended for anyone in the organisation intending to participate on Lean Six Sigma projects.

People who attend fall into the following categories: Those who wish to become part of company-wide Six Sigma practices and/or Improvement Projects; Working Executives who want to become Six Sigma Experts. (e.g. Quality Assurance Engineers, Project Managers, Team leaders, Software Professionals, Practitioners, Software Quality Assurance team members and Senior Management); Future managers; Any other professional members who are doing research, innovations or consulting in process improvement practices; Management and Engineering Students are desirous to be more resourceful and employable

How is the course structured?

This certified course is a blended form of both classroom and one to one mentoring with candidates on their work sites. We believe that this is the most valuable way to provide this training because the mentoring assists with the culture change which in turn ensures that the methodologies become embedded into the candidate and their workplace.

Our certified yellow belt course is 2 days of intensive classroom learning (10 hours per day) followed by mentoring to implement a 5S program in the workplace to aid in the culture change followed by a classroom exam.

On completion of this course you will be have:

• An understanding of the history and reasons for Lean Six Sigma
• An overall understanding to the concepts, tools and principles of Lean
  
• An overall understanding to the Six Sigma philosophy, the DMAIC methodology and the tools and techniques used in Six Sigma
  
• An understanding of the similarities, differences and practical applications of both Six Sigma and Lean approaches
  
• Take part in small projects using basic understanding of tools
  
• An understanding of how Lean Six Sigma can be integrated into the company’s management systems
  
• Some initial criteria and guidelines for selecting, reviewing and evaluating Lean Six Sigma projects
  
• A practical understanding of how these programs can be applied to deliver an effective continuous improvement program to reduce waste and variation in the business
  

What is covered in this Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Course?

• History of Lean Six Sigma
• Understanding DMAIC (Define Measure Analysis Improve & Control)
  
• Developing and understanding a story board
  
• Understanding the tools and techniques
  
• Introduction to Moving Range Charts
  
• Understanding TQM and Lean Six Sigma
  
• Understanding FMEA (Failure Mode & Effect Analysis)
  
• Identifying project opportunities
  
• Understanding and producing a Process Map
  
• Understanding Metrics and Fish Bone diagrams
  
• The Nature of Change and Overcoming Resistance
  
• Tools and techniques for Effective Change and Business Transformation