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Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
TBC | 2 Days

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Are you dealing with a lot of waste due to inefficiencies in business processes within your organisation? Are you dealing with some complex operational problems and issues without knowing the root causes of them and the solution? Are you tasked with improving your cost efficiency, customer satisfaction and organisational performance?

This two-day Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt course, designed for shop floor personnel to middle to senior managers in private and public sector organisations, introduces participants to two powerful business and operational excellence strategies, developed to transform their business processes.

Lean Six Sigma is a proven Operational Excellence (OPEX) methodology that provides organisations with a systematic and scientific approach to solve business problems, which leads to enhanced profitability, improved productivity, increased customer satisfaction and an improved overall business performance. Using basic tools and techniques integrated within a powerful problem-solving methodology, participants will adopt lean and six sigma thinking and be equipped with skills and confidence to identify and reduce waste and variation in critical business processes.

Having successfully completed an open book Multiple Choice exam (15 multiple choice questions with a pass mark of 60%) at the end of day 2 and a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt project, participants will be awarded a Certificate in Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt. This Certificate provides a demonstration of managerial readiness and knowledge to develop and embed these techniques and tools within organisation strategy. This course can be used as a precursor for completing the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt course.

The project can be completed either at an individual level or team level (maximum number of members per team is limited to three).

The project must have followed Six Sigma methodology and used appropriate Lean or Six Sigma tools.

The duration of the project is limited to 3 months but can be extended to 4 months in exceptional circumstances, but the candidates must be consulted with the course leader (Professor Antony) and get an approval for such cases.

Project Charter should be completed by either an individual or team prior to attending the training and this should be provided to the course leader at least 3 weeks prior to the course delivery. A template of the project charter will be provided at least 5 weeks prior to the course.

The project should deliver a business benefit of around £2.5 to £3k (individual level) and the benefit must be endorsed by the Finance Controller or Head of Finance or Finance manager/Director of the participant’s company. If a team of three are involved, we would expect a benefit of £7.5k to 9K to the bottom line of the organisation.

A project report should be prepared in a word document and the maximum word count for this is 1200-1500. Power-Point slides are not acceptable and should not be provided to the course leader. The report should cover the following key points:
- Nature of the problem and justification as to why LSS has been utilized for solving the problem
- Six Sigma methodology (explain each phase and the tools used within each phase of the methodology)
- Major challenges encountered and key lessons learned
- Key benefits achieved (financial and non-financial)
- Letter of endorsement for savings from the relevant Finance personnel in the organisation

Course Information

Award Type Certificate in Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Delivery Method In Person

Location
On Campus

Start TBC

Duration
2 Days

Sector
Leadership and Management

Fee
£600

Prof Jiju Antony

Prof Jiju Antony is recognised worldwide as a leader in OPEX methodology for achieving and sustaining organisational excellence. He is a part-time Professor of Quality and Operational Excellence at Newcastle Business School, in the Faculty of Business and Law at Northumbria University and the Vice President of Research for the most prestigious International Academy for Quality (IAQ) set by Dr Ishikawa, Dr Deming, and Dr Juran in the late 1950s. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (UK), Fellow of the Institute for Operations Management (UK), Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Fellow of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI), a Fellow of the Institute of the Six Sigma Professionals (ISSP) and Fellow of the International Lean Six Sigma Institute (FILSSi). He is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt from three professional bodies and has trained over 1500 people as Lean Six Sigma Yellow, Green and Black Belts from over 20 countries representing over 180 organisations in the last 15 years.

He has also published over 500 journal and conference papers on Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma topics and 16 textbooks with over 42,000 citations and H-index of 106, which is the highest in the world for the number of citations and H-index. He has coached and mentored over 300 Lean Six Sigma projects from various companies in the UK ranging from manufacturing (Siemens, Tata, Thales, Nokia, Philips, Rolls Royce), service to public sector organisations including NHS, Glasgow City Council, Edinburgh City Council, Police Scotland, ACCESS, Scottish Water, and many University sectors.

Dr Alireza Shokri

Dr Alireza Shokri is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Operations and Supply Chain Management and the subject group leader of "Operations, Supply Chain and Logistics Management" in the Department of Operations, Marketing and Systems. Before joining Newcastle Business School in 2011, Alireza had different practitioner roles including supply chain manager, quality manager, and ISO9001 internal consultant in food sector. Alireza completed his PhD in Lean Six Sigma application within food distribution SMEs in 2011 and since then he is working as an academic. He was recently part of the project management team as the quality manager and researcher of a multi-disciplinary global EU-funded (1m Euros) project as part of "Horizon 2020" called "GETM3 Project". Alireza was involved as principal investigator in an Innovate UK-funded feasibility study (£300k) in collaboration with external partners in digital supply chain and predictive maintenance integration. Recently, Alireza is leading the Digital Catapult and Digital Supply Chain Hub-funded project as the principal investigator in partnership with industry with the value of £1.3M.

Alireza is a member of Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) as the practitioner. Alongside that, Alireza is the Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), and member of Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) that is co-joint professional body with Chartered Institute of Operations Management (CIOM). Alireza is also a certified Lean Six Sigma Green belt with professional capability of leading on Lean Six Sigma projects.

Dr Adrian Small

Dr Adrian Small is an Associate Professor in Operations Management in Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. Adrian's academic background focused upon management, and in particular managing intangible goods and services. With a keen interest in technology, Adrian obtained an MSc degree in Business Information Technology where he was able to combine his business skills with the ever-changing field of information technology. Through his PhD research Adrian was able to engage more with Operations Management challenges and how such challenges impact on organisations.

As an outcome, Adrian has a keen interest in Operations Management in both manufacturing and service organisations. Adrian has a broad interest in Operations Management and Service Operations Management but with particular interest in process improvement, continuous improvement, and Lean. Adrian is also interested in Problem Structuring Methods (PSM) as well as all aspects of technology including design, implementation, and use.

Northumbria is a research-rich, business-focused, professional university with a global reputation for academic quality. We conduct ground-breaking research, by which this course will introduce you to primary sources and familiarise you with cutting-edge operations strategy research. It is led by Associate Professor Dr Alireza Shokri, Head of Subject for Operations, Supply Chain and Logistics Management Group. Dr Shokri is Director of the Centre for Digital Supply Chain Excellence (CDSCE) and Associate Editor of International Journal of Lean Six Sigma.

Course Outline Learning Environment Key Learning Outcomes

Day 1

Introduction to Lean Thinking

Lean Thinking vs Lean Production System

7 + 1 Forms of Waste Analysis (Exercise)

Lean Methodology

Introduction to Six Sigma

Lean vs Six Sigma

Three Dimensions of Six Sigma

Variation (Exercise)

Six Sigma Methodology (DMAIC)

DMAIC 4.0

ISO 18404 standard

Introduction to Lean Six Sigma

Why Lean Six Sigma?

Benefits of LSS from case studies

LSS project and its characteristics

Day 1 (Wrap up)

Day 2

Basic Tools of Lean and Six Sigma (7 to 8 tools of LSS)

Exercises on the use of tools applied to your business (Group exercise)

Integration of tools in DMAIC methodology

LSS Yellow Belt project and preparation of the report

Day 2 (Course wrap up)

LSS Yellow Belt Open Book Exam (Multiple Choice Questions)

This course is delivered at the Northumbria University campus over 2 days.

To gain an overall understanding of the core concepts, basic tools, and critical differences between Lean and Six Sigma.

To have an overall understanding of the Lean Six Sigma problem solving methodology.

To understand when and where the tools should be used in your project for problem solving scenarios.

To apply LSS methodology and tools, and deliver a continuous improvement project by increasing customer value and reducing waste and variation in any business

Please register your interest for this course and we will be in touch once we have confirmed dates.

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