Six Sigma Training - Maximize Your Quality Standards

Standards: all businesses have them; highindustries beyond the military, the institution of
standards are expected by your customers, andthe International Organization for Standardization,
should be demanded by management and("ISO"), and the now famous quality competition
stakeholders; the highest standards are afrom Asia, Japan in particular, ISO 9000, and its
necessity to achieve true excellence, and maintainoffspring were developed.
your competitive edge in all aspects of business.Granted by Accredited Certification Bodies, after
Six Sigma, variously defined as a philosophy ofappropriate auditing of quality management, ISO
continual improvement, a measure of variation or,9001 compliance certificates may be achieved by
most commonly, a process performance metric,business organizations. Business visionaries,
is a methodology to reduce business process costhowever, know that, while reaching the high
and waste, improve quality and deliveryplateaus is essential, in order to both lead and
performance, and assure that client requirementssucceed, the pinnacle is the only goal. Utilizing Six
are better understood and met by managementSigma Training to gift your organization, and the
and staff. No matter what an organization'spersonnel who have dedicated their careers to
function is, quality management is critical: not justbeing leaders, with exceptional tools and skills, will
the management of quality, but the quality ofallow you, and the clients whose trust makes it all
management. While a variety of Qualitypossible, to climb the true path, and plant your
Management processes are available, none giveflags on the summit.
you a more accurate statistical processSix Sigma Training is available to all levels of
performance metric than you will be able topersonnel involved in improving business
generate using the methods provided by Sixprocesses, from anyone who can affect
Sigma Training.organizational change, to the highest senior
Clients desire perfection, but are knowledgeablemanagement. Lean Enterprise Training is
enough to know that perfection, just as perpetualstructured to provide an in-depth introduction to
motion, is beyond human bounds. They will,Lean Enterprise, (the reduction of waste and
therefore, be delighted with an aggressivestreamlining of operations), and demonstrate the
evolution toward perfection: an asymptotic curvecorrelation between Six Sigma and ISO 9000
ever approaching that goal, in essence. With Sixstandards. Executive Level Management Training
Sigma, that evolution can be tracked andserves to increase understanding of what Six
demonstrated. Quality Improvement is not aSigma is, and how high-level organizations that
static goal, but an ongoing process. Businesshave properly instituted Six Sigma have achieved
success requires not simply meeting, butremarkable and demonstrable results. These
exceeding, the custom's expectations. Six Sigmaresults are discussed and analyzed in the context
Training teaches a process that allows you andof Six Sigma "best practices" implementation.
your staff to maximize quality for your operationMoving up the ladder, Six Sigma Champion
by utilizing a finely honed and quantifiable method,Workshops focus on techniques and tools used
resulting in true Quality Improvement.by Sigma Improvement Teams, including the
Savvy companies are familiar with the term "SixBlack Belt Team disciplines applied to a project.
Sigma", but what does it really mean, and howSigma Champions are responsible not only for
can Six Sigma Training benefit your enterprise?sponsoring a project, but for determining which
Simply put, Six Sigma is about generating andspecific projects are optimally selected. Six Sigma
analyzing statistics; statistics that affect yourGreen Belt Training concentrates on teaching
profitability, and the products or services providedpersonnel to support high level, or Black Belt
to your clients. Without delving too heavily intoprojects. Upon completion of Six Sigma Green
the mathematics, Six Sigma represents theBelt Training, a practitioner has the opportunity to
occurrence of 3.4 defects in one millionparticipate in Six Sigma Black Belt Training, which
opportunities. This ratio is generally considered asinculcates the "DMAIC," (Define; Measure; Analyze;
optimal, and with the proper investment of humanImprove and Control) model. Individuals are trained
resource time and capital, not only achievable, butfrom project definition through process control.
essential to creativity, flexibility, success andParticipants achieve Six Sigma Black Belt
growth.certification by completing the three or four week
In order to understand the importance of Sixcourse with 100% attendance; passing all weekly
Sigma Training, a brief history of quality assuranceexams; receiving 8 hours of instructor coaching;
standards is appropriate. Starting, for simplicity,successfully completing a project within four
with the First World War, slight variations inmonths of training completion; successfully
ordinance tolerations caused quality failures indefending that project, and passing a written final
weapons factories. Lack of standard calibrationsexamination.
often resulted in serious accidents. Initially, QualityIn sum, Six Sigma Training teaches your
Inspectors were placed to monitor the productionpersonnel to improve business processes, optimize
process. While helpful, it was clear that there wasperformance, eliminate operational waste, and
more to do in the nature of quality. As timemaximize profits, while saving your organization
passed, Western countries developed Qualityhundreds of thousands, and often millions of
Program Requirements in order to try to conformdollars,. It is the only system that truly statistically
supplier performance to user need. After variousquantifies these results in a measurable and
iterations, the expansion of quality ideology intomeaningful way.