
Benjamin Myers
Susan Whitehead
January 29, 2025
Benjamin Myers
Get answers to all your questions about Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, Green Belts, Black Belts, and Kaizen. This course equips you to be a valuable member of a process improvement team with an overview of lean concepts and basic statistics, as well as explanations of the DMAIC steps and purpose.
Course Agenda:
• Introduction and Lean Sigma Yellow Belt Course Overview
• Lean & Six Sigma History
• DMAIC Philosophy for both Lean & Lean Sigma
• Lean Overview & Simulation
• The Project Charter – Driving Activities
• Voice of the Customer – Why Is It Important?
• Introduction to Basic Statistics & Variation
• Purpose of the Analyze Phase & the basic tools employed
• Purpose of the Improve Phase & Kaizen Events
• Why controls are important and the types of controls
• 5S & Visual Controls
• Work Control Systems
• Replenishment/Pull Systems
• Identifying, Selecting & Prioritizing Root Causes
• Introduction to Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) & Exercise
• TPM overview
• Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Mistake Proofing
• Standard Work
Skills / Knowledge
- Yellow Belt
- Mistake Proofing
- FMEA
- Six Sigma
- Lean
- Process Improvement
Issued on
January 29, 2025
Expires on
Does not expire