Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Online Course (Accredited)

In this video you will learn about what is Six Sigma and the simplest possible way!

• Six Sigma is a highly disciplined management approach to attain NEAR PERFECTION.
• Six Sigma means 3.4 defects per million opportunities
• Six Sigma is a customer centric model
• It is a method for making data driven decisions
• Critical focus on reducing variation
• Customers and Shareholders are two key stakeholders who will get benefited from Six Sigma deployment
• 4 Goals of Six Sigma are:
  1. Reduce Defects
  2. Improve Process Yield
  3. Consistent Performance
  4. Revenue Increment and Cost Reduction

In this LSS Yellow belt lecture, you will learn the evolution of six sigma

3 Interpretations of Six Sigma include:

• Six Sigma as a performance measure
• Six Sigma as a problem solving tool
• Six Sigma as a management philosophy

You will get to read about the need and relevance of Six Sigma for organizations.

In this Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt lecture, you will learn

• Six Sigma is the new benchmark for performance.

• It equals to 99.9996% of accuracy

• Sigma Scale is a non-linear scale

• Companies operating at Six Sigma have very low costs incurred due to poor quality

Download Abridged Sigma Table and use it for finding out Sigma level of your process (and also for the quiz)

Important Six Sigma Terms are:

• CTQ - Critical to Quality
• Customer Specification Limits - There can be two limits on either side known as Lower Specification Limits (LSL) or Upper Specification Limits (USL)
• Defects - They are any undesirable outcome as defined by the customer
• Defective - A product (whole unit) that contains one or more defects is deemed as defective
• Defect Opportunities - Are unique opportunities in a unit for committing defects

Various roles associated with Six Sigma include:

Yellow Belt

• 1 day immersion program
• Appreciate goals of Lean and Six Sigma
• Knowledge of basic tools
• Undertake simple improvement projects

Green Belt

• Around a week’s training
• Emphasis on DMAIC method and tools
• Undertake Green Belt improvement projects
• Not a full time role

Black Belt

• Around 3~4 week’s extensive training
• Emphasis on DMAIC method and tools
• Runs large scale hi-impact improvement projects
• Full time role
• Mentors & coaches Green Belts

Master Black Belt

• Leadership role
• Excellent Change management & Technical skills
• Mentors & coaches Black Belts
• Builds training courses & trains

Champion

• Process owners
• Sponsors Lean Six Sigma projects
• Clears roadblocks for projects

Deployment Champion

• Functional head of Lean Six Sigma Deployment
• Owns deployment strategy
• Project selection and management
• Overall direction

  Organizations focus on two broad activities:

• Run the business

• Change the business

  Six Sigma education helps you to equip yourself to change the business; And that is the need of the hour. 

  Take self-assessment on six sigma.

This document will give you an idea of various topics, tools and techniques covered in Six Sigma Green Belt Education.

In this LSS Yellow Belt lecture, learn variation and its significance.

In this lecture you will read about what is Six and Sigma in Six Sigma. These terms are usually very intimidating and this lecture is included to help you understand what they really mean.

In this video you will get to learn about what is Lean and how is it different from Six Sigma. You will be able to appreciate how combining Lean and Six Sigma can deliver more value to customers and businesses.

Lean Six Sigma Project – A beginner’s guide is a series that explains how to run Lean Six Sigma projects in detail. The biggest benefit of combining Lean and Six Sigma is to deliver more value to customers and business. In order for a Six Sigma Professionals to be successful with a project, they must know what’s to be done, and how to accomplish them! This guide is a step-by-step procedure to execute the 5 phases of a Lean Six Sigma project.

Understand about DMAIC, the 5 step methodology of Six Sigma to solve problems. You will also be able to apply the relevant phases to any given problem as you solve it.

Difficulty Level: Medium

This is a DMAIC Project Case Study. It is spreads over two consecutive lectures of this Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt course.

This is continuation of TX International Case Study from previous lecture.

In this lecture, you will learn about the various elements of Six Sigma project charter.

Difficulty Level: Low

In this LSS Yellow Belt lecture you will learn the importance of Voice of Customers and how it can be used to drive business results and customer satisfaction.

Difficulty Level: Low

In this LSS Yellow Belt lecture, you will learn about Deployment Flow Chart. At the end of the lecture you will be able to construct a deployment chart for any process. 

Difficulty Level : Medium

In this lecture, you will learn how to analyze the various steps of any process and systematically make the process lean and effective. 

Difficulty Level: Low

1. A detailed process map is given for a process in the resource process value analysis activity input.pdf. Use this to perform process value analysis.
2. Compare the your results with the solution in resource process value analysis solution.pdf

In this LSS Yellow Belt lecture, you will understand about Cause & Effect Diagram and appreciate how it can be useful to you.

1) Cause and Effect Template is included in resources Fish Bone Diagram.xls

Difficulty: Low

In this Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt lecture, you will learn about pareto principle and its relevance to prioritization. At the end of lecture, you will be able to create a pareto diagram for any relevant scenario and draw inferences.

Difficulty Level: Medium

1. ParetoTemplate.zip contains downloadable excel based pareto diagram for your future use

In this lecture, you will learn about control-impact matrix and how it is useful to prioritize root causes. At the end of the lecture, you will be able to apply Control-Impact Matrix in any scenario.

Difficulty Level : Low

In this lecture, you will learn about FMEA and various concepts associated with it. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to associate the concepts to a given scenario.

Difficulty Level: Medium