Lean Six Sigma

Effective way towards improvement:

Lean Six sigma, the revolutionary process, is the most effective way to achieve fast, dramatic improvement, helping organisations reduce process cycle time, inventory and improve the resource efficiency in a process.

The core philosophy is to deliver more, in line with the customer requirements, with lesser resources.

Six sigma was founded by Motorola, but later popularized by GE through Jack Welch as a process improvement methodology. In its most simple sense, Six sigma is a highly disciplined approach to decision- making that helps people focus on improving the effectiveness (defect reduction) of processes to make them as near perfect as possible.

Seamless integration

Lean Six sigma is the first seamless integration and single, coordinated initiative of Lean and Six sigma, and today’s most powerful method for dramatically reducing lead time and variation. Hence, drives rapid, high-impact business improvement throughout your company.

Lean Six sigma tools can be deployed in both manufacturing plants and transactional back offices and generate continuous growth, profit and market share gains with minimal capital input.

The evolution

Lean and Six sigma have evolved from being just methodologies to comprehensive Performance Improvement Systems and have become a metaphor for Business and Process Excellence today.

Why Lean Six sigma?

Though the end objective for Lean and Six sigma is to improve the performance of processes in an organization and deliver output as per customer requirements, both these methodologies focus on different aspects of a process. These methodologies have been used successfully to solve any kind of process issues independently and the effectiveness of the solutions becomes sub-optimal if the right tools and techniques are not used.

Combining Lean with Six sigma has proven beneficial because Lean makes process area organization more efficient, faster, less costly and more flexible whereas Six sigma increases accuracy and predictability of end output. It is for this reason many companies are turning to a combined Lean Six sigma effort, and are looking for capable Lean Six sigma practitioners.

The revolutionary Lean Six sigma

When Six sigma is deployed systematically and pervasively, with the right support and leadership force, it helps in reducing the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) to produce large amounts of cash for short-term profitability or for long-term investments.

The revolutionary Lean Six sigma combines the infrastructure of DMAIC and the data focus of Six sigma with the simple yet highly effective waste-reducing tools of Lean, thereby enabling improvement of efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility of a process, which can deliver huge benefits to an organization.

Like Lean and Six sigma, Lean Six sigma has also been used with tremendous success in any manufacturing, transactional or service process.

Game-changing competitive advantages exist throughout company operations and Lean Six sigma can help release them, faster than ever before possible, and leverage these advantages throughout your value stream. In process environments, Lean Six sigma combines the rapid waste elimination and lead-time reduction of Lean with Six sigma’s focus on quality and yield improvement, for an unprecedented, one-two improvement punch.

Sense and Share Consultancy, Sri Lanka (www.sense-n-share.com) is proudly introduces a five-day Lean Six sigma Green Belt (Silver) Certification program together with BMGI, India (www.bmgindia.com) this month.

The first of its kind fast track program opens gateways for Sri Lankan Manufacturing and Transactional organization engage their employees at 25 percent lesser cost compared to sending them overseas for training/certifications of this nature. The Lean Six sigma Green Belt Certified (GBs) individuals can upgrade them selves to the ultimate Black Belt Certification in time to come.

Article by BMGI India