LEAN / SIX-SIGMA
Let me guide your organization on the journey to your "future state" by developing a culture of empowerment and continuous improvement using the principles of lean and six sigma as the framework. As a recognized expert in the technical and analytic problem solving tools, I will help you find solutions for your toughest problems.
LEAN PRINCIPLES
The lean journey begins by identifying value from the perspective of your internal and external customers. Mapping the existing value stream will help teams understand how value flows through the organization. The value stream map helps to identify problem areas and waste and is an important part of imagining a "future state", or shared vision of where we want to be. With value stream map in hand, the team can move through each step of the process in order to optimize flow in all aspects of the business. Establishing pull, is a way of looking at the process in reverse. (from the customer perspective). Finally, seeking perfection through through never ending process improvement and the elimination of waste.
ELIMINATION OF WASTE
Identifying and eliminating the 7 or 8 types of waste. TIM WOOD
- Unnecessary Transportation
- Excess Inventory
- Extra Motion
- Waiting Time
- Over-production
- Over processing
- Defects
- Underutilized Talent
Five S
The 5S list below describes how to organize a work space for efficiency and effectiveness by identifying and storing items, maintaining the area and items, and sustaining the new order. The decision-making process comes from a dialogue about standardization, which builds understanding among employees about how they should perform work. 5S is frequently viewed as an element of a broader construct known as visual control, visual workplace, or visual factory.
1. Sort; 2. Stabilize; 3. Shine; 4. Standardize; 5. Sustain
Six Sigma
Six Sigma strategies seek to improve the quality of the output of a process by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability using a set of quality tools and statistical methods.
Generally speaking, industry trained Black Belts and Green Belts are ill prepared and lack the depth of knowledge of various statistical tools. With over 20 years experience applying statistical methods, with a Masters Degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in Applied and Mathematical Statistics, I have been trained by the best, including: W. Edwards Deming, Dorian Shainin, and Edward G. Schilling.