Yellow Belt Lean Six Sigma

Doug Von Feldt

Engagement Executive, AlignOrg Solutions; Principal Owner, Crimson Corporation. Doug is an expert at helping organizations become more profitable by aligning work processes, people and culture to achieve operational effectiveness and efficiencies.

Upon completion of this course you will:

• Understand the history and background of Lean Six Sigma

• Know how to participate in Lean Six Sigma projects that deliver meaningful results

• Be able to use several key Lean Six Sigma Tools

• Understand the DMAIC problems solving methodology

• Understand the Crimson Corporation Process Improvement Roadmap®

• Be able to make process improvements in your work area

• Understand the importance of “soft skills” in a LSS project

• Gain confidence understanding these terms in Lean Six Sigma concepts:
  • DMAIC process improvement methodology
  • Project charter
  • Voice of the customer
  • Swim lane process map
  • Fishbone root cause analysis tool
  • 5 Why root cause analysis tool
  • Pareto charts
  • Graphical analysis tools
  • Measurement systems analysis (MSA)
  • Measurement plan development
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Control charts
  • Lean principles
  • 7 Wastes
  • 5S
  • Kanban
  • Kaizen events
  • Continuous flow processes
  • Value stream maps

• All industries and types of organizations

• Individuals and organizations just getting started with Lean Six Sigma or want to know more about it

• Project leaders or team members who will be working on improvement projects

This in-person course is taught over two consecutive days from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the K-State Olathe campus. Lunch is included in your registration. The course is designed to be extremely interactive and has a mix of learning methods including lecture, simulations, individual and team exercises, and videos.

K-State Olathe is located at 22201 W. Innovation Drive, Olathe, KS 66061. 

Parking is free. Park in the first parking lot right when you turn into campus.

A Yellow Belt workbook created by Crimson Corporation will be provided and will be the main instructional document used during the course. There are additional books and reference material used in the class and will be provided. All instructional material is the intellectual property of Crimson Corporation.

Section 1: Lean Six Sigma Overview

• History of quality
• History of Lean and Six Sigma
• Goals of Lean Six Sigma
• Process improvement overview
• Process variation overview
• Operational enemies of Lean
• Design for Six Sigma
• DMAIC
• Soft skills for Lean Six Sigma
• Implementing Lean Six Sigma
• Organizational change management
• Lean Six Sigma belt levels (White, Yellow, Green, Black)

Section 2: Define the Problem/Opportunity

• Understand how to identify improvement opportunities
• Collect Voice of the Customer data
• Develop a Project Charter
• Create high level “As Is” process maps
• Plan the project

Section 3: Measure the Problem/Opportunity

• Understand the current process
• Create a measurement plan
• Perform a Lean Assessment
• Execute the measurement plan
• Validate measurement systems

Section 4: Analyze the Problem/Opportunity

• Analyze the data
• Analyze the process
• Identify variances between current state and goal
• Perform root cause analysis
• Perform hypothesis testing

Section 5: Improve

• Determine potential solutions
• Test/pilot solutions
• Update process maps and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Create a rollout plan
• Implement the final solution

Section 6: Control

• Develop and implement a control plan
• Validate achievement of goals
• On-going tracking and reporting
• Institutionalize the improvements
• Rewards and recognition

Section 7: Lean

• Lean background
• Introduction to Lean tools
• 7 Wastes
• Value stream mapping
• 5S
• Kaizen
• Pull systems