Six Sigma Champion Training

Six Sigma is a business initiative first developed by Motorola in early 1990. Motorolla reports $11Billion in savings since it started this strategy. Since then other notable corporations such as Allied Signal (Honeywell), General Electric and Ford have experienced remarkable success emulating this strategy.  G.E alone reported 1.5 billion dollars in savings over and above investment in one year.

The Six Sigma strategy involves the use of statistical tools within a structured, disciplined methodology for gaining the knowledge needed to produce better quality products and services faster and at at significantly lower costs by reducing variation, rework, scrap, waste, downtime, and other losses. 

This two day Champion Training Session is designed for Executives, Managers, Engineers and Quality Practitioners who need to understand the Six Sigma strategy, tools and implementation process.  It covers the Six Sigma philosophy, terminology, the DMAIC methodology, organizational issues, roles and  implementation.  Participants leave with a solid appreciation for this strategy and how to ask the right questions to mentor Six Sigma Teams and drive improvement.

Seminar Outline
  • What is Six Sigma? Who's doing it? Successes
  • The Systems Approach to Process Improvement
  • Knowledge Based Management - what, why and how?
  • Case Study - What's Wrong with This Company.
  • Types of Variation and Causes
  • Six Sigma Metrics - Benchmarking
  • Questions Managers Need to Answer
  • Questions Managers Need to Ask
  • The Six Sigma Tools needed to Answer Questions
  • Catapult Exercise - Doing Your best
  • The Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control methodology
  • The Prioritize, Characterize, Optimize, Realize strategy
  • Experiencing Process Improvement - Catapult Experimentation
  • The Six Sigma Challenge - Catapult Exercise
  • Organizational Issues
  • Implementation Strategy
  • Questions and Answers

Participants receive a copy of the text Knowledge Based Management by Schmidt, Kiemele & Berdine, a copy of The SPC BOOK by L. Galicinski, and the seminar Six Sigma Executive Workbook .  The Statistical Catapult is used in the session to enable participants to experience the Six Sigma Process.

This seminar can be provided on site at a fixed cost of $6,000.00 U.S. plus $75.00 per person for course materials, plus instructor's travel expenses.

For more information E mail: info@qualitran.com

Presenter: Les Galicinski, P. Eng.

Les Galicinski is president and founder of Qualitran Professional Services Inc. He has instructed thousands of managers, engineers, supervisors and others in quality methodology and techniques and has authored several SPC books. His background includes a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University and a career with IBM, Xerox, and GE as a Product Engineer, Quality Engineer and Quality Assurance Manager. He has instructed courses in Quality Control, Management and SPC for Centennial College, Georgian College, Xerox, IBM, GE and as a private consultant. For the past twenty years, he has been president and chief consultant at Qualitran where he has serviced clients such as Motorolla, Mack Trucks, Eveready Battery Company, Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy. He has provided quality related training to hundreds of client companies. (See Client List)