Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

UNF’s Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt course provides “front line” employees and Lean Six Sigma team members with an understanding of the philosophy and goals of Lean Six Sigma as well as an understanding of their role in a Lean Six Sigma program. This workshop intensive course walks participants through each step of the DMAIC process utilizing a series of hands-on exercises in each phase to build an understanding of how to work with data as part of a Lean Six Sigma team.

Who should attend:
Individuals who will be participating on Lean Six Sigma teams, will be undertaking activities related to Lean Six Sigma or will be impacted by Lean Six Sigma activities.

Prerequisite: None

CEU Credits: 1.6

Duration: 16 Hours – 2-day course

Course Content:

Introduction to Lean Six Sigma
This section introduces the Yellow Belt to the fundamentals of Lean Six Sigma. It creates a basic understanding of the variation reduction strategy and explains the team members’ role in Lean Six Sigma projects.

  • The purpose of Lean Six Sigma
  • How Six Sigma improves processes
  • How Lean improves processes
  • How Lean and Six Sigma integrate
  • Lean Six Sigma success stories
  • Process vs. product control
  • The role of Lean Six Sigma team members

The Lean Six Sigma Roadmap
This section provides a basic understanding of the DMAIC methodology and how the team proceeds through a Lean Six Sigma project.

  • Define
  • Measure
  • Analyze
  • Improve
  • Control

Define
This section describes the initial phase of the Lean Six Sigma methodology and some of the outputs of the Define phase.

  • Overview of the tools and methods used in Define
  • Value Stream Mapping workshop

Measure
This topic provides coverage of measurement assessment and data collection. Key concepts include understanding measurement systems as processes and the issue of measurement error.

  • Measure phase overview
  • Determining what to measure
  • Cause and Effect Diagram workshop
  • Concept of measurement system variation
  • "Graphical" gage R&R workshop

Analyze
This section provides an overview of select statistical tools used to drive toward root causes in the Analyze phase of Lean Six Sigma.

  • Analyze phase overview
  • Control charts
  • Control chart workshop
    • #1 - Control chart development
    • #2 - Identifying signals on the control chart
  • Process capability and ppms
  • Process capability (histogram) workshop
  • Proportion nonconforming workshop

Improve
This phase of training provides the Yellow Belt with an understanding of the Improve phase of the Lean Six Sigma process.

  • Improve phase overview
  • Lean tools review
  • Understanding Kaizen and the use of Lean tools
  • Design of experiments workshop

Control
This section provides a basic overview of the Control phase of Lean Six Sigma.

  • Document Control
  • Visual workplace overview
  • Control plans and reaction plans
  • Control Charts

 

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