Six Sigma Training with Smallpeice Enterprises

Those businesses that have adopted Six Sigma soon realise that there is a very important contribution to be made from design. There is a limit to how much a manufacturing process can be optimised, and when this has been achieved, any further opportunities for improvement must come from design. In DFSS, cross-functional teams are used to optimise products & processes together. Decisions are based on data and an understanding of how products and processes behave, through the analysis of variation. A suite of tools and techniques are used in an Identify, Design, Optimise & Validate (IDOV) framework. The outcome is a design solution that meets customer requirements & can be manufactured consistently to a high standard.

OBJECTIVES

To overview the Six Sigma improvement strategy

To show how DFSS supports new product development

To describe the management of a DFSS initiative

COURSE CONTENT

Overview of Six Sigma

What is unique about Six Sigma

Implications of 3 Sigma quality

Why Six Sigma

Complexity vs capability

The old and new philosophy of quality

Cost of change

The DMAIC approach

Six Sigma structure (Black Belts/Green Belts)

Design for Six Sigma

DFSS goals and aims

Links with new product development

Management of critical characteristics

DFSS benefits

The DFSS IDOV Framework

Identify Tools: VOC, Functional Analysis, QFD, System FMEA

Design Tools: TRIZ, Concept Generation & Selection, Design FMEA, VAVE, DFMA

Optimise Tools: Measurement Systems Analysis, Statistical Process Control,
Capability Analysis, Statistical Tolerancing, Hypothesis Testing, Regression,
Reliability, Design of Experiments

Validate Tools: Design/Process Validation, Process FMEA, Visual Management,
Poka Yoke

The Management of DFSS

When is DFSS appropriate?

Implementing DFSS

DFSS best practice

Common mistakes

Managing a DFSS project