Lean Sigma (Lean σ)

Welcome to the Six Sigma Training tab at JCM Work Designs/The Lean Sigma Team!

Featured here are 5 inter-related topics for Lean σ Training:

1.Lean Sigma Champions

2.Lean Sigma Black Belt

3.Lean Sigma Green Belt

4.Lean Sigma White Belt

5.Lean Sigma Project Team

Any business enterprise ultimately needs all of these capabilities in order to “survive and prosper” today and in the future. The Lean Sigma Team is ready, willing, and able to help you and your company on this important journey!

Where does one start?

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Lean Sigma Black Belt

A Lean σ Black Belt is someone who’s skilled at Lean and Six Sigma Methodologies and has experience applying these skills in business processes to achieve dramatic results. He/she is a full-time lean σ sigma practitioner in the organization, working on 4-6 major lean σ projects every year and delivering results at 10X his/her salary.

The Lean Sigma Team at JCM Work Designs offers 2 weeks of training for potential Lean σ Black Belts who’ve progressed beyond the Lean σ Green Belt and wish to be certified at the next level.

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Lean Sigma Champions

Lean Sigma Champions are process owners. These are people who own the responsibility for a business process and it’s results in an organization.

Examples of these process include (but are not limited to):

1. Customer Service
2. Customer Order Entry
3. Capital Project Engineering Design
4. Technology Research
5. Product Design
6. Process Design Engineering
7. Supplier Management
8. Manufacturing
9. Product Distribution

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Lean Sigma Green Belt:

The Lean σ Green Belt involves two weeks of additional training beyond the Lean σ White Belt, plus completing a major Lean σ Kaizen and a Lean σ Training Event. Green Belts are expected to be devoting up to ½ of their time to Lean σ Projects, plus maintaining their current organizational position. He/she is typically working on 4-6 lean σ projects every year and delivering results at 4X his/her salary.

Lean σ Green Belt topics include:
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Lean Sigma Project Teams

Lean Sigma Project Teams

The Lean σ Project Team is a cross-section of people in various jobs in the organization put together as a team for the purpose of improving a business process. This is typically performed as a kaizen event led by a Lean σ Green Belt or Black Belt.

We can help you get a LS (Lean Sigma) Project Team organized, get it started on it’s project, and see it through to completion through training and coaching.  Please contact us for a formal proposal.

Lean Sigma White Belt:

The Lean σ White Belt is achieved through one week of intensive Lean σ Training. Successful participants will be certified as Lean σ White Belts upon completion of this training which includes:

The DMAIC Process

Team Charter

Target Matrix

The 7 Basic Quality Tools

Use of MiniTab (or other statistical software)

Classroom simulation

Lean σ White Belts are at the “learning level” of lean and six sigma and generally receive coaching from Lean σ Green Belts and Black Belts. They work as members of project teams and retain their regular full-time jobs in the organization.

The LSWB program is 5 days of workshop training:

Day 1:  Define

Day 2: Measure

Day 3: Analyze

Day 4: Improve

Day 5: Control

This LSWB Workshop features the 7 basic quality tools in electronic format, Team Charters, SIPOC Diagramming, and a special airplane simultation to apply these tools using thre DMAIC process with actual data and analysis.  Attendees work in small teams to learn.  Presentations of the DMAIC concepts are made each day and the participants, through the simulation, apply the tools to the case and “learn by doing”.  It’s very active.

Certified participants receive a formal martial arts Lean Sigma White Belt plus a framed Certificate upon completion.

JCM Work Designs/The Lean Sigma Team can design and conduct a this workshop to meet your specific needs.  Please contact us for a formal proposal.