Gregory King's Key Lean & Six Sigma Skills
Lean Thinking is centered on process flow and looks to expose those activities that are non value adding to a business. It has been developed by many organisations to look at improving productivity, boost efficiency and increase the quality of services or products being offered.
The basis of the Six Sigma concept is to look at all processes, see how they can be improved and drive improvement to eliminate process defects. The theory has been tried and tested in numerous organisations across the world and is recognized as a well structured approach for improving results that can be measured.
- Use visualization to create success.
- Encourage business operations progress.
- Specify value from the standpoint of the end customer by product family.
- Identify all the steps in the value stream for each product family, eliminating whenever possible those steps that do not create value.
- Make the value-creating steps occur in tight sequence so the product will flow smoothly toward the customer.
- As flow is introduced, let customers pull value from the next upstream activity.
- As value is specified, value streams are identified, wasted steps are removed, and flow and pull are introduced, begin the process again and continue it until a state of perfection is reached in which perfect value is created with no waste.
The basis of the Six Sigma concept is to look at all processes, see how they can be improved and drive improvement to eliminate process defects. The theory has been tried and tested in numerous organisations across the world and is recognized as a well structured approach for improving results that can be measured.
- Define the boundaries of the process. Ask questions, such as who the customers are and what is important to them.
- Determine the current state of the process relative to the desired goals. Identify characteristics critical to quality.
- Analyze the process to understand how much improvement is possible to make the characteristics that are critical to quality
- Implement the process improvements in a logical and planned manner.
- Put the measures in place to ensure the improvements are maintained.