Managing with Lean Sigma Yellow Belt Training from Unipart Group

Performance through engagement

Product Sheet :Managing with Lean Sigma

Unipart Group helps organisations to achieve exceptional levels of operational performance and transformational change through a unique approach that combines Lean and Lean Sigma based process improvement techniques, the engagement and development of people and the transfer of Unipart’s skills and knowledge to client organisations and employees.

As a part of Unipart, the Lean Sigma Team comes with a pedigree second to none with all its members experienced to Master Black Belt level.

Why Lean Six Sigma? Lean Sigma is used by most of the world’s leading organisations, including the majority of the Fortune 500, to realise substantial fi nancial benefi ts by improving their business processes.

Lean Sigma tools and techniques can be applied to all business processes, using sound statistical data to continuously improve the quality and reliability of outputs, and resultant customer satisfaction.

Like Lean Sigma, Lean originated in manufacturing and has now spread into almost all market sectors delivering considerable effi ciencies in a wide range of business processes. The combination of these two highly successful methodologies to prioritise improvement where it is needed most, is a logical evolution.

Individuals experienced in Lean and Lean Sigma can bring considerable benefi ts to their employers and are highly sought after in the marketplace.

What is a Yellow Belt?For Lean Sigma to function effectively in an organisation, a structured team of Lean Sigma experts – Yellow, Green and Black Belts – is necessary. Yellow Belt is the introductory level to Lean Six Sigma and this one-day training takes you to this level.

Who Should Attend?Lean Sigma is now as relevant to those working in, or aiming to work in, any sector as it is in manufacturing. In fact, it is often these newer areas that yield the biggest improvements.

As a result, recent training participants have come from a wide range of disciplines and sectors including retail, logistics, health, fi nance, human resources, purchasing and marketing in both private and public sectors.

All Unipart Lean Sigma training programmes are equally relevant to those with a technical or non-technical background irrespective of delegates’ individual level of academic achievement.

A Firm FoundationYellow Belt training events are designed and conducted by Unipart’s dedicated Lean Sigma Team to ensure delegates gain a strong grounding in Lean Sigma by engaging them in involving and practical activity-based exercises.

Delegates will gain an understanding of Lean Sigma’s methodology, its basic terminology, and three simple techniques. They will also be able to identify potential applications for Lean Sigma in their own workplace processes and prioritise its application.

Unipart’s Lean Sigma Team will also help to identify individuals with the aptitude to progress to Green, and possibly Black Belt.

“The course was very informative, well communicated, and the examples used were easy to relate to. The presenters were enthusiastic and encouraged the group to participate.”

Customer Service team of an international publishing house

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Training StructureYellow Belt Training from Unipart’s Lean Sigma Team is delivered as a combination of presentation, activity, discussion and case study ensuring that delegates understand the concepts and the application of Lean Sigma, not just the tools.

The one-day training session is tailored to the requirements of the delegates attending. A typical session structure is given below:

The Concepts of Lean Sigma The benefits of Lean Sigma Suitable applications Project case studies An Introduction to DMAIC-T methodology

What does the customer want? Needs/Measures Matrix Valuable Tools and Concepts 8 wastes

Processes: performance and variation Value Stream Mapping Measuring Systems Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) Understanding Variation

Data – why you need it and what to do with it Analysing data Statistical Process Control

Root Causes and Improvements Process Improvement

Maintaining the improvements Control Charts Workplace Audit

Transferring the improvements for more benefi ts The Lean Sigma Mindset

Expert GuidanceUnipart Group’s Lean Sigma Team comes with a pedigree second to none, with all its members experienced to Master Black Belt level.

Using its many decades of Lean and Lean Sigma experience, the team not only designs and delivers training at all stages of Lean Sigma, but also works alongside organisations from the very beginning of their Lean Six Sigma journey right through to project completion and certifi cation, providing expert consulting and mentoring tailored to the specifi c needs of each client.

“The workshop has been a great learning experience. With the practical examples and case studies, I feel I have comprehended the basic conceptual framework and how Six Sigma can benefi t the business. I’m keen to learn more.”

Analyst at a global logistics business.

Book Your Place TodayPlease contact the Lean Six Sigma Team to book your place at one of our open events, or to arrange a bespoke training event for your organisation,email: sixsigma@unipart.com Visit our website www.unipartsixsigma.co.ukUnipart Group Ltd, Unipart House, Cowley, Oxford OX4 2PG UK.

Unipart’s Lean Six Sigma TeamMartin Scott – B.Sc, MBA, MIMMM, C.EngMartin’s experience of Lean and Six Sigma extends over two decades and a wide range of clients and disciplines.

Highlights include leading GE Lighting’s Six Sigma implementation across Europe, the design and implementation of deployments for several pharmaceutical companies – one retail-based where the focus was on HR and Sales, an advanced materials manufacturer and the Unipart Group itself.

He has also provided Lean Six Sigma project support to several UK Government departments and the NHS.

He is also an experienced trainer, having led training and development for both a leading IT support company and an international publisher.

Sue Christelow MBA, MScSue Christelow is a Lean Sigma Master Black Belt with a background in Sales and Strategic Marketing and Change Management.

Her experience ranges from working with SMEs to multinational organisations and in the public and private sectors, both with front line staff and executives. She has worked as a Senior Research Scientist in BioPharmaceuticals and then in Clinical Diagnostics and Life Sciences.

Sue has also held senior management and corporate change roles (including developing the strategic vision and communication strategies) working directly with CEO and Board level colleagues.

She is passionate about coaching and supporting people to achieve their potential through the teams she has directly managed, those on Green and Black Belt programmes, front line staff through to executives, and external clients. She is a qualified NLP Coach and MBTI Practitioner.

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“The Unipart Six Sigma team have made a significant contribution to our Continual Improvement framework. They have delivered Yellow Belt training to more than 100 Services Staff at our UK and European offices. The delegate feedback has always been very positive culminating in a decision to include the training as part of Computacenter Learning and development roadmap. Benefits have included enhancing the reputation of Computacenter’s CI Team and our associated methodology, however, more importantly supporting the delivery of 150 recorded improvement projects, benefiting both our Customers and Computacenter.”

Continual Improvement Manager, Computacenter.