Colin – Today I’m here with Steve who’s our Six Sigma Black Belt trainer and we’re just talking some of the questions that our clients quite often ask us about various aspects of Six Sigma and the tools. Read the rest of "VIDEO: What is Value Stream Mapping?"
Colin – Today I’m here with Steve, he’s our Six Sigma Black Belt Trainer and we’re tackling some of the questions most commonly asked by our clients. We’ve talked a bit about Six Sigma already, one of the tools within Six Sigma is Root Cause Analysis and we quite often run private training just on Root Cause Analysis. A lot of people are a bit confused as to what that is and how it can help them, so if you could just give us an overview of what Root Cause Analysis is and how is can help an organization. Read the rest of "VIDEO: What is Root Cause Analysis?"
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Colin – Today we’re here with Steve, our Six Sigma Black Belt trainer. We’re going to ask you some questions that we are commonly asked by our clients. First of all, could you tell us; What is Six Sigma? What is Lean? And what are the differences between Lean and Six Sigma?
Colin – Today we are here with Steve who is our Six Sigma Black Belt Trainer and we are just answering some questions that we are commonly asked by our clients about Six Sigma. I want to ask you about the belt levels and what is a Green Belt? What is a Black Belt? And what are the differences between Green Belt and Black Belt?
Steve – A Black Belt typically has 3 to 4 weeks of training and a Black Belt is somebody who is confident with the whole range of Lean Six Sigma tools. They are someone who is going to have good people skills as well because a Black Belt will be leading projects. As well as knowing the tools, a Black Belt will also know about how to run a good meeting, managing the sponsor, making sure you get people involved and motivated in the programme. So the Black Belt brings together the people skills and an in-depth knowledge of the tools. They will be leading programmes and generating projects which will probably generate multiple projects of its own. A Green Belt has typically has got 1 or 2 weeks of training, some project experience and they will have a good understanding of the basic tools of Lean Six Sigma. They’ll be working as either a member of a large project, lead by a Black Belt, and/or they’ll be leading projects themselves in the work place as a Green Belt.
The benefits of the Six Sigma Management system are:
process flows are improved
defects are reduced
communication is Improved as the whole organisation works towards common goals
cycle times are reduced
customer satisfaction improved
employee satisfaction improved
productivity is increased
capacity and output are improved
quality is improved
reliability of products and processes are improved
unit costs decreased
designs improved
time to market is quicker
better delivery time
Six Sigma enables organisations to become more effective and efficient. Organisations using the Six Sigma Management System improve their processes, efficiency, products, services and customer experience.
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Roles in a Six Sigma Organisation
The success of the Six Sigma management process is dependant on senior executives, master black belts, black belts, and Six Sigma green belts working towards the same goals and understanding and implementing the process throughout the organisation.
A senior executive should bring the whole organisation into alignment and instigate changes necessary for Six Sigma’s ultimate success. The most successful Six Sigma projects all share in common clear, and committed leadership from top management. Six Sigma processes initiated at lower levels may show benefits but not dramatic and sustainable changes.
Managers who have been trained as Six Sigma Champions have a vital role to play in conducting and implementing Six Sigma projects. Champions will work closely with the executive committee including the assigned Six Sigma black belt and the master black belt.
Six Sigma Black Belts are usually full-time change agents and lead by making improvements to processes across multiple Six Sigma projects. He or she will be in charge of a team of Green Belts and will be mentored by a Master Black Belt.
Six Sigma is a methodology, a statistical analysis tool and a management system designed to streamline business processes by eradicating defects. The implementation of Six Sigma aims to improve and sustain quality, eliminate waste and raise profits. Silicon Beach Training provides a range of 
