Lean Six Sigma – Green Belt Training

DMAIC Cycle:
1.Define
2.Measure
3.Analyze
4.Improve
5.Control

f you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.”
Competitive Thinking:
“If the other guy gets BETTER, you’re going to get LESS.”

xamples are:
•Kanban;
•Color-Coding;
•Lines on the floor to delineate storage areas, walkways, work areas, etc.;
•Pictures

the customer requests 2 units per day, takt will be equal to half a working day

7 WASTES

The work can be divided into three categories:
Waste: anything that is not necessary;
Value Adding: everything that increases the value of the product from the point of view of the customer;
Non-Value Adding: all that is necessary, but it is not seen as value added by the customer.
It is obvious that to improve any process you will need to eliminate all wastes and minimize non-value added activities.
We can identify seven major categories of waste:
Overproduction: it is the main waste because it generates all the others;
Inventory: it should be reduced as much as possible to aim to one piece flow;
Transportation: can be caused by excessive inventory ;
Motion: all motions are a waste and must be reduced by putting material where they are needed and implementing ergonomic analysis of every work station;
Overprocessing: occurs any time more work is done on a piece than is required by the customer;
Waiting;
Defects.

CTQs accurately represent what is important to the customer.