Six Sigma Yellow Belt Training Course

The IASSC Certified Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt (ICYB) is a part-time professional who is well-versed in the foundational elements of the Lean Six Sigma Methodology, leads limited improvement projects, and/or participates as a team member in more complex improvement projects led by a Certified Green Belt or Certified Black Belt. The IASSC Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Body of Knowledge defines a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt as having a full grasp of the fundamental features of the Lean Six Sigma Method, including proficiency in the subject topics covered within the Define, Measure, and Control (DMC) phases. A Yellow Belt in Lean Six Sigma knows how to implement, perform, interpret, and apply Lean Six Sigma.

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

  • Gain a basic working knowledge of the Six Sigma DMAIC process
  • Develop an understanding of the Lean concepts and their practical application
  • Identify and reduce 8 types of waste
  • Identify process improvement opportunities
  • Develop basic problem solving & continuous improvement skills
  • Key operational Staff who have intimate knowledge of and day-to-day expertise with the company's business processes. In Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt projects, Yellow Belts are key contributors or team members.
  • This course is also appropriate for anybody interested in gaining a broad grasp of Lean Six Sigma ideas and practices.
  • Six Sigma is a lean methodology. Yellow belt training is often employed as a basic competence for all employees in world-class Lean Six Sigma organizations.

  • What is Lean 6 Sigma?
  • Two Parts of Lean 6 Sigma
  • Focus of Lean and Lean Temple and Focus of Six Sigma and Making Customers Happy
  • How they Complement Each Other
  • Key Principles of Lean 6 Sigma and Lean 6 Sigma Belts
  • TKA Lean 6 Sigma Belt Structure and Training Roadmap
  • Role of the Yellow Belt and L6S Support Network
  • Processes and Different Ways of Looking at Process Improvement
  • What is a Process?
  • Process Concepts and Types of Process
  • Comparing Process Types, Customers, Value, and Waste
  • What are Customers? Who Wants the Outputs?
  • Tension Between the VOB and VOC
  • What Do We Mean by Value?
  • Path to Value and Dealing with Values
  • Muda (Waste) and Seven Wastes (Muda) of Lean
  • Types of Demand, Case Study Exercise and Key Metrics

  • What is DMAIC?
  • Define
  • Common Tools for Define Phase and Gemba Tools
  • Process Stapling and Measure
  • Common Tools for Measure Phase
  • Spaghetti (Movement/Transportation) Diagrams
  • Measure Tool: Measles Charts and Analyse
  • Common Tools for Analyse Phase
  • Improve and Common Tools for Improve Phase
  • Control and Common Tools for Control Phase

  • Lean Triad, 5s, Poka Yoke, SMED
  • Voice of the Customer (and CTQ’s)
  • Customer Chains and 4 Steps of VOC
  • Affinity Diagrams and Kano Diagrams
  • CTQs and Requirements
  • SIPOC
  • What is a SIPOC? An Example SIPOC
  • CSandF Web Fulfilment SIPOC
  • Creating a SIPOC and Top Tips – SIPOC
  • Value Stream Analysis and Value Stream Terminology
  • Process Maps and Aim of Value Stream Mapping
  • Swim Lanes and Typical Process Map Contents
  • Value Stream Maps and Headache Tablets: Value Stream Mapping
  • Heijunka and Heijunka in a Nutshell
  • Single Piece Flow, Pull, Kanban
  • Three-Bin System, Andon
  • Variation and SPC and Statistical Process Control (SPC)
  • Two Types of Process Variation
  • Red Bead Experiment and Standard Deviation (SD)
  • Understanding Control Charts, Defects and Process Capability, Conversion Table
  • Process Capability, Identifying Process Efficiency
  • Process Efficiency and Identifying Process Efficiency
  • Key DPMO Terms and Identifying the Root Cause(s)
  • 5 Whys and Fishbone Diagram
  • Solving Problems and Problem-Solving Framework
  • Prioritisation Tools and Tools and Techniques to Generate Needed Solutions
  • Introduction to Kaizen, Kaizen in a Nutshell, and Kaizen in a Business Setting
  • Lean Teams and Introduction to Lean Team
  • Managing Progress and Demonstrating Control

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