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Lean Six Sigma Continuous Improvement Boot Camp

Responsible for launching or rejuvenating your organization’s Lean Six Sigma or Continuous Improvement initiative?

Worried that your current process improvement efforts are not well aligned with your organization’s business strategy… and therefore losing momentum?

Join us for an intensive five-day boot camp where you will learn from experienced industry experts the proper design and implementation of effective continuous improvement systems based on the fusion of Hoshin Kanrii Strategy Deployment, Lean Thinking, Six Sigma Structured Problem Solving and Kaizen Burst Methodology.

This boot camp will immerse you in a highly interactive, hands-on, business simulation where you will learn to properly apply the combined toolsets to drive transformational process improvements and breakthrough financial performance.

This intensive five-day boot camp, led by NWCPE experts, is perfect for:

  • The organizational leader that wants to understand the entire continuous improvement system to prepare themselves to effectively lead the implementation, or rejuvenation, of their organization’s improvement initiative
  • The organizational leader that wants to better understand Lean Six Sigma base fundamentals to prepare them to more effectively manage and engage their process improvement teams and personnel
Module 1

The Strategy Deployment Process

  • Continuous Improvement System Overview
  • Introduction to Strategy Deployment Principles
  • Simulation Setup - Gearhead Golf Carts,
    Inc.
  • The Strategy Deployment Process
  • Business Strategy Development & Discipline of Market Leaders
  • Miltenburg Operations Strategy Development for the Organization’s Functional Elements
  • Strategy Deployment Matrix Development and Implementation
  • Three Year “Stretch” Goals and Annual Objective Setting Philosophy
  • Annual Improvement Initiatives — Foundation of the Kaizen Roadmap
  • Strategy Deployment Measures and Metrics
  • DRI Accountability and the Bowling Chart Technique
Module 2

Lean Six Sigma Overview

  • Introduction to Kaizen Burst Methodology & Change Management
  • Gearhead Golf Carts Inc. – Simulation Pass #1
  • Lean and Six Sigma Overview and Comparison
  • Process Mapping Techniques and Methodology
  • Structured Brainstorming Techniques, Ishikawa Diagram and Five Why’s Thinking
Module 3

Lean Basics

  • Waste Identification
  • Standard Work
  • 5S Methodology
  • Jidoka Principles
  • Poka Yoke Design and Implementation
  • Visual Management Systems and the Visual Workplace
  • Gearhead Golf Carts Inc. – Simulation Pass #2
Module 4

Six Sigma Basics

  • DMAIC Structured Problem Solving Protocol
  • Defect Analysis and Pareto Diagrams
  • Yield Analysis
  • Attribute vs. Continuous Data
  • Histograms and Distributions
  • Power of the Normal Distribution
  • Test Repeatability and Test Process Improvement
  • Process Capability
  • Yield Improvement Methodology
  • Gearhead Golf Carts Inc. – Simulation Pass #3
Module 5

Lean Work Cells

  • Spaghetti Mapping
  • Theory of Constraints
  • Process Time Measurement and Process Cycle Efficiency
  • Lean Work Cell Concepts
  • Pull and JIT Systems
  • Water Spider Techniques and Material Delivery Systems
  • Load Balancing
Module 6

Putting It All Together

  • Lean Work Cell Design and Implementation
  • Gearhead Golf Carts Inc. – Simulation Pass #4
  • Process Performance Improvement and Lean Pathway Development
  • Kaizen Roadmap Development
  • Course Review and Test (Boot Camp Jeopardy)
  • Open Discussion – Implementation of Lean Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement Systems Within Your Organization

Course Objectives

This course provides the continuous improvement (CI) implementation leader or champion with an understanding of the CI strategies and methods essential to any successful CI initiative. Students will leave the course with a broad understanding of structured CI and how all of the tools and methodologies within the system are used together to drive operational performance within a manufacturing or business process setting.

What career paths benefit the most from Lean Six Sigma Continuous Improvement Boot Camp?

  • Current and future CI, Lean, Six Sigma Practitioners and implementation champions
  • Business leaders interested in learning Lean and Six Sigma basics
  • Practitioners interested in a high level Lean and Six Sigma review
  • Executives, Managers, or Supervisors responsible for employees engaged in Lean Six Sigma activities or implementation of a CI program
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