Design For Six Sigma – Yellow Belt
Six Sigma Yellow Belt training
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Yellow Belt is a 3-day introduction to the Six Sigma methodology. A customer-, fact- and data-driven approach to improving quality within an organisation.
You will gain an overview of the different Six Sigma methods in the toolkit necessary to develop services, products, and processes that can meet Six Sigma quality levels.
You will gain a basic insight into how Six Sigma can improve companies’ ability to ensure robustness in the design of new products, processes and services.
Who is it aimed at?
More and more companies have realised that the Six Sigma method can help to increase customer satisfaction by improving the quality of products, processes, and services, thereby also enhancing the bottom line. This means that companies that employ Six Sigma thinking can achieve significant quality improvements, save resources, and enhance competitiveness.
Content of the DFSS Yellow Belt training
Duration: 3 days
The course will focus on DFSS and the tools naturally associated with the method.
The most relevant methods will be explained in combination with case studies and associated exercises, so you have the opportunity to test the theory in practice.
You will learn how to set up and support projects with data, as well as which tools and techniques you can advantageously use. You will also learn how to ensure that the project’s improvements can be anchored in the organisation, so they become lasting. The course takes you through all the phases of the IDOV model and provides an introduction to statistics (This is elaborated from the Green Belt level and upwards).
Day 1
Six Sigma method, DMAIC- and IDOV-models
We review the Six Sigma method and its basic structure, the DMAIC model (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control), which is one of the most frequently used approaches in optimisation projects for existing processes, products and services, as well as delving into the first two points of the IDOV model, which is used in Design For Six Sigma projects for the design of new, robust products, processes and services.
Six Sigma and DMAIC
- Introduction to Six Sigma
- The DMAIC model
- Process description
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
- Project basis
IDOV - Identify
This phase is about identifying your customers' needs and converting them into technical requirements. Here are some of the aspects we cover:
- Project basis
- Process overview
- Customer focus
- "Customer's voice" (Voice of customer / VOC)
- Identifying customer requirements
- Kano Model
- Affinity Diagram – KJ analysis
- QFD (Quality Function Deployment)
- Implementation of Quality Function - Translate customer requirements into design requirements
- Learn from the defects / errors
- Basic statistics: e.g., Pareto, histogram, box plot, time-series plot
- Measure the positive process
IDOV - Design
The design phase emphasises your Critical to Quality criteria (CTQs), where you identify functional requirements, develop potential design concepts, evaluate various alternatives and select the most suitable based on preliminary analyses, tests, and risk assessments.
We review, among other things:
- QFD (Quality Function Deployment)
- P-Diagram
- Develop Conceptual Solutions
- Design FMEA & Process FMEA
- (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)
- Select the Best Concepts
- Measurement System Analysis
- Confidence Intervals (statistics)
- Hypothesis Testing
Day 2
IDOV - Optimise
Optimise and refine your design. In this phase, you assess tolerances, predict performance, and test alternative designs and design elements.
We review:
- Simple Linear Regression
- Multiple Regression
- Multi-Vari Analysis (diagrams)
- Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Full Factorial DOE
- Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA)
- Determine optimal targets and tolerances for X's - Monte Carlo Simulation
- Error-proofing
- Fishbone Analysis / Ishikawa
- 5 x Whys
IDOV - Verify
Verify that the design achieves its intended function and meets customer needs. The verification phase consists of testing and final approval of the design. Prototypes are tested for performance, error modes, reliability and potential risks before final approval.
- Complete "Design Verification Plan" (DVP)
- Complete “Design/Process FMEA”
- Design Validation
- Process Stability and Capability
- Robust Tolerance Analysis
- Assessment Test
Day 3
We recap what we have learned during the last two days. Introduction to working with an A3 report. We end the day with a written exam. A multiple choice test, where you must score 80% correct to pass, and receive your Yellow Belt Certification.
- Recap of methods and tools we have worked with over the past two days
- Introduction to A3 report
- (one-page report on the background and progress of a project)
- Design optimisation
- Presentation of A3
- Written exam – multiple choice test
- Certification
The Practical
Duration: 3 days in total. Divided into 3 modules.
Teaching time: typically from 8.00 to 16.00
Teaching form: The training will primarily take place as physical group instruction
Class: We have small classes with a maximum of 12 participants. You follow the same class throughout the entire course.
Preparation: no preparation is required prior to the training.
Exam and Certification: The training concludes with a multiple choice test, where you must score at least 80% correct to pass. You will then be certified as a Lean Yellow Belt. Congratulations!
Outcome – What competences does it provide?
After completing the training, you will have learned what it takes to ensure robustness in the design of new products, services and processes. Your learning will occur through both theory and practical exercises, where you practice using key Six Sigma tools. After three days, you will have a thorough understanding of how you can work with improvements using Six Sigma thinking and in particular the IDOV model and the associated tools.
You have been introduced to how Six Sigma can improve companies’ ability to understand and improve their results through a data-driven approach.
- Use the IDOV method, basic quality tools and basic data analyses to address simple quality challenges in a robust way.
- See organisations as a collection of processes, where input and process elements affect output.
- Understand the relationship between quality challenges and "Root Cause Analysis".
- Understand how Six Sigma can support a company's strategy and objectives.
- Set the organisational framework for a successful quality project.
- Take an active role in quality management, quality control and quality improvement.
- Actively, critically and constructively contribute to the company's work with quality, optimisation and process improvement.
Our Other Design for Six Sigma Trainings
White
Belt
Design for Six Sigma White Belt
Get a short but thorough introduction to Design for Six Sigma and the associated tools, so you are aware of and understand how a DFSS project works.
Duration: 1 day of teaching
Green
Belt
Design for Six Sigma Green Belt
Gain great practical insight and become capable of leading and implementing DFSS projects within your own field or department. Green Belts often spend about 25% of their working time on this.
Duration: 13 days of teaching + work on your own practical project
Black
Belt
Design for Six Sigma Black Belt
Achieve expert level and become capable of conducting complex cross-organisational DFSS projects to ensure greater robustness in products, services, and processes. Typically a 100% resource.
Duration: 19 days of teaching + work on two specific projects
Master Black
Belt
Design for Six Sigma Master Black Belt
You will become the expert who, with great professionalism, can solve critical and complicated quality challenges, take on a strategic leadership role in the organisation, and train and coach other Green Belts and Black Belts in the method.
Duration: typically 9-11 days of teaching (final number agreed individually) + practical project and coaching of Green Belts and Black Belts
Why choose eye4improve
- Skillful and experienced instructors
- You gain skills you can use in the real world
- We alternate between theory and practical exercises, so you are involved in the teaching
- The complex material is served in an easy-to-understand way with plenty of examples and exercises
- You gain skills you can use in the real world
- You get a high academic level
- We educate practitioners
Let’s have a chat
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