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Six Sigma creates focused and highly effective quality management principles to achieve significant gains in productivity and sales in today's business climate. Our Six Sigma Yellow Belt course will show you what Six Sigma can do for your company and how to deploy it. This course explores quality management methods, including statistical methods, key organizational tips, and methods for plotting growth and performing at peak efficiency for maximum profits. Topics covered include phases, tools and techniques of the Six Sigma methodology, as well as DMAIC and DMADV deployment models.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Define the principles of Six Sigma
- Recognize the steps involved in each phase of the Six Sigma development process
- Identify aspects of data-driven management
- Describe the steps for recognizing opportunity in order to build a solid Six Sigma infrastructure
- List the tools used in Six Sigma
Six Sigma Yellow Belt Module 1
History and Development
- Defining Six Sigma
- History of Six Sigma
- Why Does Six Sigma Succeed
- Assumptions of Six Sigma
- Careers that Employ Six Sigma Strategies
- Job Opportunities
- The Appeal to Managers
- Success Stories
Six Sigma Yellow Belt Module 2
What Six Sigma Can Do for Your Company
- Improving Customer Loyalty
- Standards and Expectations
- Quality
- Measuring Customer Service
- Time Management
- Organization
- Reduced Cycle Time
- Everyday Efficiency
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- Employee Motivation
Six Sigma Yellow Belt Module 3
Deployment of Six Sigma
- Using Six Sigma with a Project
- Identifying Input and Output
- Reducing Operator Variation
- How to Eliminate the Defect
- Creating a Six Sigma Infrastructure
- Defining Leaders
- Department Roles
- Choosing a Measurement System
- Deployment Mistakes
- Leadership Indifference
- Incorrect Project Selection
Six Sigma Yellow Belt Module 4
DMAIC: Define, Measure, and Analyze
- Define Phase
- Project Charter
- Tools and Charts
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Voice of the Customer
- Measure Phase
- Data Collection Plan
- Benchmarking
- Historical Data
- Process Flow
Six Sigma Yellow Belt Module 5
DMAIC: Improve, Control and Success
- Improve Stage
- Differences in Sigma Levels
- Workplace Organization
- Control Stage
- Error Proofing
- Examples of DMAIC Within a Company
- When to Use DMAIC
- Success Stories
- What Should Have Been Done Differently?
Six Sigma Yellow Belt Module 6
Other Tactics in Six Sigma
- DFSS
- Dimensions of Quality
- Project Algorithms
- Transfer Functions
- Validating Designs
- TRIZ
- DMADV
Six Sigma Yellow Belt Module 7
More Tactics in Six Sigma
- IDOV
- DCCDI
- DMEDI
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Pull Systems
- Visual Factory
Six Sigma Yellow Belt Module 8
To Use or Not to Use
- Will Your Company Use Six Sigma?
- Create Persuasion for Change
- Mitigating Resistance
- Start Small
- Critics of Six Sigma
- Role of Consultants
- No Breakthrough Improvement
- Six Sigma Case Studies
- Using DMAIC
- Using DFSS
- Using Other Tactics
Ed4Career is committed to being both environmentally conscious and making it easier for you to study! We’re making your education mobile! All of our textbooks are now provided as eTextbooks. You can access them on your laptop, tablet, or mobile device and can study anytime, anywhere.
The move away from physical books to eTextbooks means you get the latest, most up-to-date version available. This also makes your training more accessible, so you can study anywhere you have your phone or tablet. The best part is that all materials are included in your training cost so there are NO extra fees for books!
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be prepared, in part, to sit for the American Society for Quality Six Sigma Yellow Belt (CSSYB) certification exam or the IASSC (ICYB) certification exam.
**Certification exams are not included in the cost of the course.**
Internet Connection
- Broadband or High-Speed - DSL, Cable, and Wireless Connections
*Dial-Up internet connections will result in a diminished online experience. Classroom pages may load slowly and viewing large audio and video files may not be possible.
Hardware Requirements
- Processor - 2GHz Processor or Higher
- Memory - 1 GB RAM Minimum Recommended
PC Software Requirements
- Operating Systems - Windows 7 or higher
- Microsoft Office 2013 or higher. Also, you could use a general Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
- Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended
- Cookies MUST be enabled
- Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
- The Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
- PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
- Adobe PDF Reader
- QuickTime, Windows Media Player &/or Real Player
MAC Software Requirements
- Operating Systems - Mac OS x 10 or higher with Windows
- Mac office programs or a Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
- Internet Browsers- Google Chrome is highly recommended
- Cookies MUST be enabled
- Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
- The Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
- PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
- Adobe PDF Reader
- Apple QuickTime Media Player