Six Sigma Executive Overview

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 one day Executive Overview is designed for Senior Executives, Managers, Engineers and Quality Practitioners who desire an overview of the Six Sigma strategy, tools and implementation process.  It is designed to answer the question "Why Six Sigma Saves Billions?".  Participants leave with a solid appreciation for this strategy and how it works.  

Seminar Outline
  • What is Six Sigma? Who's doing it? Successes
  • History of the Movement
  • Cost of Poor Quality and ROI from Six Sigma Activities
  • 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
  • The Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control methodology
  • The Prioritize, Characterize, Optimize, Realize strategy
  • Organizational Issues
  • Implementation Strategy
  • Questions and Answers

Seminar Texts

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  

This seminar can be provided on site at a fixed cost of $3,000.00 U.S. plus $75.00 per person for course materials, plus instructor's travel expenses.

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)

For more information E mail: info@qualitran.com