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Modeling and Analyzing Processes in Six Sigma

Overview/Description "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing," says W. Edwards Deming, a well-known American quality advocate, statistician, and educator. During the Measure stage of the Six Sigma methodology, you need to identify and map processes and procedures for problem areas identified during the Define stage, and present them to the Six Sigma team for a closer look. As you start uncovering and analyzing these processes, the likely causes of problems become clearer. This course will examine the tools and techniques used to model and...

Motivation and Communication in Six Sigma Teams

Overview/Description Six Sigma teams must possess specific qualities to succeed throughout the development stages of their life cycles. Leaders who know how to facilitate teams will greatly enhance their chances for project success, which in turn will benefit their organizations. Motivation is one essential component that can optimize a team's focus on accomplishing its assigned goals. By making the teamwork enriching and satisfying to members, leaders can motivate a Six Sigma team with dramatic effects on overall success. Modern motivational theory informs today's motivational techniques,...

Multivariate Analysis and Attribute Data Analysis in Six Sigma

Overview/Description In the Analyze phase of the DMAIC methodology, a Six Sigma team begins to analyze the root causes of the problems that it identified in the earlier stages. This analysis may require churning out huge volumes of data of different types. Sometimes this data is of a multivariate nature, meaning that many dependent and independent variables need to be considered simultaneously. As such, Six Sigma teams often use advanced multivariate tools to manage this type of data. Data can also be of an attribute nature, for which Six Sigma teams use a different set of data analysis tools...

Nonparametric Tests in Six Sigma Analysis

Overview/Description Hypothesis testing is a process of assuming an initial claim about the population characteristics and then statistically testing this claim using sample data. Testing hypotheses is a very important activity in Six Sigma projects in the areas of analysis, decision making, and change implementation. In conventional hypothesis tests – called parametric tests – a sample statistic is obtained to estimate a population parameter and hence requires a number of assumptions to be made about the underlying population; such as the normality of data. However, another category of...

Nonstatistical Analysis Methods in Six Sigma

Overview/Description Getting to the source of why something has gone wrong in a system or process is critical to identifying the changes necessary for resolving the problem. During the Analyze phase of a Six Sigma project, a Black Belt practitioner utilizes a variety of statistical and nonstatistical tools and methods for analyzing systems and processes to identify variation and defects, reduce costs, eliminate waste, and reduce cycle time. While many of the tools used in the Analyze phase are statistical and quantitative in nature, there are many useful nonstatistical methods. Nonstatistical...

Nonstatistical Control Tools and Maintaining Controls in Six Sigma

Overview/Description In the final stages of the Six Sigma DMAIC methodology, once process improvement opportunities are identified and implemented, teams need to control the improved processes in order to sustain improvement gains. Process control includes applying tools to continuously monitor and maintain each improved process, and to prevent it from reverting to its previous state. This course introduces basic nonstatistical control tools as well as tools for maintaining control so that process improvement initiatives continue as they were intended. Specifically, it explores how total...

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Overview/Description The supply chain is a network of operations running across an organization, which are needed to design, make, deliver, and service products or services for customers. Production, inventory, location, transportation, and information are performance drivers that can be managed to produce the capabilities for a given supply chain. As a part of their overall strategy, organizations also employ many supply chain strategies to survive and compete in a dynamic and competitive marketplace. However, it is also essential from an organization's point of view to use effective...

Operations Management and the Organization

Overview/Description Operations management plays a vital role in producing and delivering goods and services to customers. It involves designing, planning, directing, and controlling the organization's resources and processes required to transform capital, skills, and materials into products and services. It is important that any operations strategy be aligned with the overall organizational business strategy for its success. This course intends to help learners gain a basic understanding of the key concepts, functions, and goals of operations management in the services and manufacturing...

Operations Management: Facilities Planning and Management

Overview/Description Managing facilities plays an important role in integrating employees, work processes, and work locations with an organization's production system. This integration is essential to productivity and customer-focused production. Decisions about facility location must consider access to customers, resources, and utilities. Layout of facilities is determined by the nature of the organization, its production system, and the processes used for creating its products or services. When choosing the location and layout of a facility, service facility managers must be mindful of how...

Operations Management: Forecasting and Capacity Planning

Overview/Description Customer demand for products and services changes constantly. Forecasting and capacity planning ensure that resource are managed so that customer demand is met in the right amount, at the right time, with the right quality. Demand forecasting helps companies determine the supply of products and services needed to meet customer demand. When the supply requirements are known, an organization can focus on ensuring the availability of appropriate levels of material, workforce, facilities, and financial resources to produce the desired products and services. Any adjustments to...

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