Lean and Six Sigma are widely recognized as the most effective business improvement tools for manufacturers. But trying to use them together often creates confusion:
For those of you already using traditional Six Sigma, you know how time-consuming it can be, with typical projects normally taking six months or more. LVSI has removed both the confusion and excessive time. Lean Six Sigma is the seamless integration of Lean and Six Sigma - and today's most powerful method for dramatically reducing lead time and process variation.
Lean Six Sigma incorporates the speed and impact of Lean with the quality and variation control of Six Sigma - all at the speed of Lean. To do that, we used Lean tools to remove the unnecessary time and activity from traditional Six Sigma, reducing average project time from six months or more to six to eight weeks by combining Lean and Six Sigma into a single, seamless process that you can use to achieve rapid improvement.
Our consultants are helping discrete and process manufacturers implement Lean Six Sigma in their plants and back offices - and generate continuous growth, profit and market share gains, with minimal capital input. They work side-by-side, hands-on, with client teams to drive Lean culture change and fast, dramatic improvement - incorporating Six Sigma tools within our Kaizen process to quickly resolve variation and quality issues. We can also show you how you can use Lean Six Sigma to develop and introduce consistently innovative new products - in a fraction of your current time and cost. In process environments, Lean Six Sigma combines the rapid waste elimination and lead-time reduction of Lean with Six Sigma's focus on quality and yield improvement, for an unprecedented, one-two improvement punch.
Before we begin a Lean Six Sigma assignment for you, we will provide a detailed projection of the market impact and bottom-line results you can expect. As we work with you, we'll teach you everything we know, so you can create your own engine for continuous improvement.
Tailored Six Sigma Training
For customers who need to ensure that their investment in Six Sigma Training will deliver tangible benefits to the business, we offer Yellow Belt, Green Belt and Black Belt Six Sigma Training courses tailored to our Customers business requirements. As an integral part the couses, participants complete a practical project addressing specific, relevant business problems.
Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Yellow Belt certification provides an overall insight to the techniques of Six Sigma, its metrics, and basic improvement methodologies. A Yellow Belt is an individual who has received introductory training in the fundamentals of Six Sigma.
The Yellow Belt gathers data, participates in problem-solving exercises and adds their personal experiences to the exploration process. Not only do Yellow Belts gain the skills necessary to identify, monitor and control profit-eating practices in their own processes, but they are also prepared to feed that information to Black Belts and Green Belts working on larger system projects.
Six Sigma Green Belt
The Six Sigma Green Belt is a specially trained team member within his or her function-specific area of the organisation. This focus allows the Green Belt to work on small, carefully defined Six Sigma projects, which require less than a Black Belt’s full-time commitment.
Our Green Belt Training provides participants with strong problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control) model.The Green Belt has two primary tasks: first, to help successfully deploy Six Sigma techniques, and second, to lead small-scale improvement projects within their respective areas. In a support role, Green Belts can do much of the data-gathering analysis in support of a Black Belt project. On the Green Belt course you will learn how to use many of the Six Sigma problem-solving methods and statistical tools to contribute to the success of your organisation.
Six Sigma Black Belt
Six Sigma Black Belt Training provides you with a thorough knowledge of Six Sigma philosophies and principles (including supporting systems and tools). A certified Black Belt exhibits team leadership, understands team dynamics, and assigns their team members with roles and responsibilities. They have a complete understanding of the DMAIC model in accordance with the Six Sigma principles, as well as a good working knowledge of lean enterprise concepts, and they can quickly identify “non-value-added” activities.
A Six Sigma Black Belt will leave you with the skills to: