For more than three decades Six Sigma has played a vital role in the central business strategies of leading global players across industries. This is your first step towards getting started on an exciting journey which is evergreen and always seeking the right talent.
Introduction
- What is Six Sigma?
- Origin of Six Sigma
- Other approaches vs. Six Sigma
- Scope of Six Sigma
- Importance of Balanced Score Card
- Six Sigma Roles
Define Phase
- High level process map SIPOC
- Identifying the business need for doing the project
- CTQ Prioritization – Kano, FMEA, QFD
- Project Charter and its elements with Good and Bad examples
- Forming a Project Team
- Network Diagram, Gantt Chart
Measure Phase
- Process Mapping
- Accuracy vs. Precision
- Measurement System Analysis
- Data collection and summarization
- Calculation of baseline performance -Sigma level and Process Capability
- The Normal Distribution
Analyze Phase
- Exploratory data analysis
- Multi-variate analysis
- Identification of all possible causes: Pareto, Fishbone, Boxplot, Correlation and Simple Linear Regression
- Validation of potential causes to zero down on root causes - Hypothesis Testing
- Measuring sufficiency of root causes to achieve Project objective
Improve Phase
- Generating solution ideas
- Design of Experiments - OFAT
- Piloting the ideas on small but representative sample
- Evaluating the results
Control Phase
- Control Plan
- Control Charts
- Standardization of Processes
- Documenting procedures and Training
- Communicating learnings to all stakeholders
- Transfer of project ownership back to the process owner
Analytics
- What is Analytics?
- Types of Analytics – Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive
- Statistical Methods for Decision Making
- CRISP DM – Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining
- Applications of Predictive Modeling and Data Mining