I completed this Lynda on Lean SIx Sigma.

1. Lean Six Sigma
Foundations
By: Colin Osborne

2. Why Six Sigma?
• Provide reliable, consistent, and dependable products

3. Why Lean?
• Lean- the elimination of all non-value added activities (waste)
• Facilitators include: empowered employees, flexible equipment,
and efficient layouts

4. Why Lena Six Sigma?
• Lean Six Sigma is the application of Lean principles and Six Sigma
methodology
• Combine lean tools for reducing cycle time to require more
emphasis on Six Sigma methods

5. Define
• MAIC Methodology
• Measure
• Analyze
• Improve
• Control

6. Measure
• All about the data
• Where is it?
• Who can help you find it?
• How do you make sure the data is accurate?
• Consideration
• Data collection methods
• Operational definitons

7. Analyze
• How the existing process works
• How the process should work
• Process Mapping Considerations:
• Time
• Cost
• Yield
• Capacity

8. Improve
• Improvement tools:
• Brainstorming
• Communicating
• Evaluate ideas one by one
• Communicate with everyone involved
• Recognize those affected by the change

9. Control
• Checklists
• Monthly review meetings
• Document updates
• Training

10. Design for Six Sigma
• Design
• Measure
• Analyze
• Design
• Verify

11. Lean Metrics
• Eliminate anything that does not provide value
• Determine the value
• Identify the value stream
• Make value flow without interruptions
• Allow the customer to pull value
• Pursue perfection

12. Five S’s
• Sort
• Set in order
• Shine
• Sustain
• Standardize

13. Just in Time
• Raw materials, components, and subassemblies are delivered to
the factory as they are needed for production

14. Total Productive Maintenance
• Ensures:
• Machines will not breakdown unexpectedly
• Scheduled maintenance completed in a timely manner

15. Quality at the Source
• Quality is doing it right when no one is looking
• Should be foolproof

16. Continuous Improvement
• Continually improve to outlast competitors
• Lean tools help with the reduction of waste
• Kaizen- gradual and orderly continuous improvment

17. Lead the Project
• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other
• Leadership must communicate the strategy and demonstrate their
support in their daily activities

18. Control the Project
• Initiating
• Planning
• Executing
• Closing

19. Apply Lean Six Sigma
• Half of the work done in a typical service process adds no value in
the eye of the customer
• 80% of the delay is caused by 20% of the activities

20. Lean Six Sigma for Supply Chain
• Causes for inventory issues
• Poor forecast of demand
• Supplier problems
• Capacity issues
• Transportation company