Category: Lean

What is the Best Lean Six Sigma Training and Certification?
Published:Getting recommendations from others for your Lean Six Sigma training and certification is a good strategy. But given all the variation in available programs, it is a good idea to have a list of criteria to compare your recommendations. Here is a list to get you started. What is the best Lean Six Sigma training […]
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What is the Impact on my Compensation if I am Lean Six Sigma Trained and Certified?
Published:Taking Lean Six Sigma training and getting certified will cost you time and money. Is it worth it? Will you earn more money with the additional credential of a Lean Six Sigma belt? Letโs check it out.
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What is the Cost of Lean Six Sigma Training and Certification?
Published:If you are being Lean Six Sigma trained and certified by your employer, the cost should not be a concern for you. But what if you must pay for it by yourself? Cost may then be important. Letโs explore the variation in cost for being LSS trained and certified.
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Lean Six Sigma Training and Certification: Online or in Person?
Published:Do you like to take classes in a physical classroom or virtually on a computer? This is a significant decision since Lean Six Sigma training and certification can be achieved either way. Letโs examine the plus and minus of each format.
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Why is Lean Six Sigma Accredited Training and Certification Important?
Published:Would you be happy if your doctor received her MD from an unknown and unaccredited medical school? Probably not. What about your CPA or attorney? Again, probably not. For the same reason, your employer wouldnโt be happy with your Lean Six Sigma certification if it was awarded by an unknown organization with a poor reputation […]
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What is Lean Six Sigma Training and Certification?
Published:There are two steps to earn a martial arts belt. First, you must be trained in the various techniques and then you must demonstrate your skills and knowledge. The same holds true for Lean Six Sigma training and certification. Letโs learn a little more. What is Lean Six Sigma training and certification? In martial arts, […]
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How Can I Get Lean Six Sigma Trained and Certified?
Published:When there are too many items on a menu you can get confused by the variety of choices. Getting Lean Six Sigma trained and certified can also be confusing. Letโs discuss some of your options.
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Failure Fuels Better Results from Lean
Published:Most Lean initiatives fail. What can you do about that? Ensure your organization’s leaders are champions for the deployment who encourage failure as part of your Lean journey.
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Apply Lean to Save the Planet and Your Marriage
Published:You’ve used Lean principles at work, but can it also work at home? One family implemented Lean in their daily lives over the course of a year with sustainable and measurable results. You can do it, too.
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How to Apply Lean in Construction
Published:If you work in construction, Lean will work for you. Answer 10 questions to find out if you need Lean, learn five ways to begin Lean, and be sure you know the ONE thing that MUST happen before beginning a Lean deployment.
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Lean Tools for the Novice
Published:Not an expert in Lean? No problem! Learn a few simple tools you can use in any setting, and help your organization save time and money.
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How the Toyota Production System (TPS) Can Improve Your Business Processes
Updated:The Toyota Production System (TPS) serves as the foundation for Lean Manufacturing. Letโs explore this powerful method for improving your processes.ย The Toyota Production System (TPS) is a manufacturing philosophy and a set of management practices developed by the Toyota Motor Corporation. It emphasizes continuous improvement, just-in-time production, and efficient use of resources, with the […]
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Introducing Agile Sigma
Published:When it comes to selecting the โrightโ business process improvement methodology, many CEOs, CIOs and COOs have a wide array of options available including Six Sigma, Lean, Lean Six Sigma and ISO9000. The selection process then typically focuses on evaluating business drivers and deciding on an improvement methodology that closely matches their needs to improve […]
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Use a Classification and Regression Tree (CART) for Quick Dataย Insights
Published:In the Analyze phase of a DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) Six Sigma project, potential root causes of variations and defects are identified and validated. Various data analysis tools are used for exploratory and confirmatory studies. Descriptive and graphical techniques help with understanding the nature of data and visualizing potential relationships. Statistical analysis techniques, […]
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Use Multiple Process Improvement Methodologies to Strengthen Results
Published:There are many process improvement methodologies โ Six Sigma/DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), Lean, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and innovation to name merely a few. But with so many choices, it makes applying an improvement methodology difficult. There are questions such as: โWhat makes this toolset unique?โ and โWhich one should I be […]
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Resource Page: Takt Time
Published:During the month of August โ while many are taking time off to enjoy summer โ we will be offering a resource page on a different topic each week. The resource page features an overview of the weekโs topic and links to the best related contentย across iSixSigma. This weekโs topic is takt time. What […]
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Tri-State Industries Grows with Lean Manufacturing
Published:Tri-State Industries was founded by Don Keller in 1980 as a manufacturer of industrial pipe guides and slides. In the 1990s, the company adopted the principles and practices of Lean manufacturing. Since its founding, Tri-State has grown to three product lines with a fourth in process. Along with pipe guides, Tri-State is a manufacturer of […]
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Heijunka: The Art of Leveling Production
Published:Heijunka (pronounced hi-JUNE-kuh) is a Japanese word that means โleveling.โ When implemented correctly, heijunka elegantly โย and without haste โ helps organizations meet demand while reducing while reducing wastes in production and interpersonal processes. According to many Lean experts, heijunka is better achieved as a later-stage implementation in a Lean organization, long after value streams have […]
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Lean Start-up: A Cycle of Continuous Evolution
Published:In the movement known as Lean start-up, a new enterprise starts with an idea about what customers want, not an idea for a product. Quick iterations that incorporate learnings from customer conversations with each iteration, rather than elaborate up-front product planning, lead a business to success.
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Lean Implementation for IT Company
Published:An information technology (IT) services company was engaged by a European telecom service provider to provide end-to-end testing for its five lines of business. End-to-end testing is a methodology used to test whether the flow of a software application is functioning as expected from start to finish โ for example, from receipt of customer order […]
Read more ยปSolving Decreasing Sales With Lean Six Sigma
Published:Online retailer ABC sells books, DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, apparel, furniture, food, toys and jewelry. ABC has a strong market research unit and a seamless feedback loop for enhancing the customer experience. In the last few years, however, sales had dropped significantly contributing to a slip in the overall market share of […]
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The Harada Method: Templates to Measure Long-term Goal Achievement โ Part 2 of 2
Published:The Harada method helps individuals achieve self-reliance that in turn facilitates a companyโs process improvement journey. Part One provides an overview of the method and its genesis. Part Two presents five templates to use to plan a goal, measure the goal’s progress and assess success. An example helps illustrate their practical use. As described in […]
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The Harada Method: Reduce the Eighth Waste โ Part 1 of 2
Published:The Harada method helps individuals achieve self-reliance that in turn facilitates a company’s process improvement journey. This week’s article provides an overview of the method and its genesis. Partย Two of this article presents five templates to use to plan a goal, measure the goal’s progress and assess success. No matter its size, anย organizationย is driven by […]
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Lean Manufacturing Is a Form of Ethics
Published:According to Merriam-Webster, ethics is the discipline of dealing with good and bad. If you look beyond the tools and the jargon of the Toyota Production System (TPS), this is exactly what you will find; TPS is a system for defining good and bad, and right and wrong in a production environment. When we understand […]
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