Brandix achieves process improvement milestone with Six Sigma Black
Belts
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RECOGNITION: Brandix’s Six Sigma Black Belts Tharinda Atapattu
Mudali, Chithalka Navaratna, Dushan Dayaratne, Zakir Ahamed, Sonali
Pathirathne, Tilak Rahulan and Lasantha Wijeweera with Ed Fleischer
(Vice President) Process Improvement.
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ACCOLADE: Seven Sri Lankans employed by the Brandix Group have
earned international certification as the country’s fist Six Sigma Black
Belts in the apparel sector, notching up another milestone for Sri
Lanka’s biggest exporter.
Brandix’s ‘magnificent seven’ - six of the group’s brightest young
men and one woman - have now received the certification in the Six Sigma
process improvement methodology promoted worldwide by management guru
Jack Welch.
They have all received scores in excess of 90 per cent from BMG; the
US headquartered Six Sigma Certification Company.
“This is a tremendous achievement by these seven associates and an
important milestone in the Brandix Group’s efforts to continuously
enhance processes across all member companies,” Vice-President - Process
Improvement, Ed Fleischer said.
“Three of the seven Black Belts have been selected to go on to Master
Black Belt status, with official certification to impart Six Sigma
training, while the other four have returned to operational positions in
the Group and will drive the implementation of process improvement
methodologies that will continue to lead to significant savings, he
said.
The combined savings to Brandix from seven projects undertaken by the
Black Belt aspirants during their 18-month training period alone has
exceeded US$ 1.3 million (over LKR 140 million), Fleischer said.
A disciplined data-driven process improvement tool focused on quality
and customer satisfaction, Six Sigma targets at achieving fault rates of
just 3.4 per one million opportunities.
Tracing its origins to the early 1980s when Motorola commenced a
process improvement project with Total Cycle Time reduction (TCT), a
Thomas Group methodology, Six Sigma has evolved into one of the world’s
most exciting process improvement methodologies.
A feature of the Brandix Group’s adoption of Six Sigma methodology
was that the first batch of seven Black Belts received instruction and
sat for the examinations via BMG e-learning, a first for Sri Lanka.
This was possible only because the Group had a strong foundation of
process improvement methodology that began two years prior with TCT,
which complements with Six Sigma, Fleischer said. |
