Six Sigma Black Belt Volume 1: Manufacturing (Juran Manufacturing)

To reach a Six Sigma level of performance means that an organization has a goal to reduce defects to 3.4 parts per million or fewer. Achieving this goal can only be accomplished through the breakthrough reduction of process variation, and maintaining strict control standards. Combining Six Sigma levels of improvement with effective team skills has provided vast advances in many organizations. The fundamental objective of Juran’s Six Sigma Manufacturing curriculum is to develop a methodology and strategy that enables individuals and organizations to successfully improve processes and reduce variation. At a project level the Six Sigma DMAIC process (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) is an improvement system for existing processes falling below specification and provides methods for obtaining breakthrough improvement. The objectives outlined in this workshop are for students to understand the tools and techniques of Lean and Six Sigma to carry out your role as a Green Belt or Black Belt, apply Lean and Six Sigma tools in a project, practice the application of methods and tools through real life exercises, develop skills to manage team dynamics, and become prepared to complete your belt certification requirements. Black Belts are technical specialists who are assigned full responsibility to implement Six Sigma projects through a business unit, function or process. They are viewed as initiators of improvement activity, and are full-time on-site project leaders. Volume 1 covers the Define and Measure portions of the Black Belt workshop. This book is volume one of four.