The Lean6leadership’s Podcast

In this episode, we will discuss How to employ Six Sigma

Item 1: Variation

1. Process in control?
2. Measurable
3. Understood

Item 2: Define

1. Justify why
2. Assign who
3. Gates with goals and controls

Item 3: Control

1. Follow-ups
2. Leadership clearly defined
3. Communication well understood

Story: Starting a Six Sigma project just because….

In this episode, we will discuss risk management

Item 1: Why manage risk

1. Cost management
2. Time Management
3. People management

Item 2: When to manage risk

1. Planning
2. Development
3. Execution

Item 3: How to manage risk

1. Planning tools
2. Development tools
3. Execution tools

Story:  Risk mitigation in the proposal to the customer

In this episode, we will discuss Tool selection

Item 1: Define the whatever you are working on

1. Size
2. Time
3. Cost

Item 2: Charter sets it up

1. Limits
2. People
3. Communication types

Item 3: Breakdown

1. Tool Types: Brainstorm, Just do, and complex
2. Combo tools
3. Matrix

Story: PFMEA to a DOE

In this episode we will discuss Scope Control

Item 1: Establishment of scope

1. Charter
2. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
3. Limitations and change control

Item 2: Creep

1. Customer requirement creep
2. No change controls
3. People pleasing management (overcompensation)

Item 3: Kill it with fire

1. Run on project
2. The project is over but
3. We start the project….Why?

Story: The Black Belt project that couldn’t.

In this episode we will discuss statistics

Item 1: Is it really needed?

1. Appropriate to the process
2. Inspection type
3. Data available

Item 2: Implementation

1. Frequency of review
2. KPIs
3. Display of outputs

Item 3: Sustainment

1. Goals
2. Who sees the report?
3. When to change?

Story: SPC implementation with a supplier as well as reporting on internal metrics.

In this episode we will discuss process mapping

Item 1: Why

1. Plan of PDCA
2. Baseline current process
3. Future state of process

Item 2: How

1. Excel or Paper and pencil
2. Visio
3. PowerPoint

Item 3: When

1. Beginning of a project
2. Any process at all
3. When developing a procedure

Story: Inclusion of process maps into procedures.

In this episode we will discuss project charters

Item 1: Why have them

1. Defining the project
2. Control Costs
3. Effective allocation of resources

Item 2: How to use them

1. Scope planning
2. Cost planning
3. Scheduling

Item 3: When to use them

1. Any project
2. Not for recurring tasks
3. Must have an end built in

Story: When you ran a project without a charter and when you ran one with.

In this episode we will discuss continual vs continuous improvement

Item 1: Why do it

1. Competitive advantage
2. Technology changes
3. Cost savings

Item 2: Basics on how it is done

1. TEAM WORK
2. Customer focused
3. Customer justified

Item 3: Sustain

1. Set up accountability
2. Ensure it is customer focused
3. C level driven

Story: Implementation of process improvement in an anodize line and rejected motors.