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Lean Six Sigma is one of the most popular methodologies and well-known for the benefit of excelling in the cut-throat competition now prevalent due to rapid development in technology. The need for continuous improvement (CI) in various processes that drive every stage of the supply chain is evermore. More and more businesses are striving to reduce aberrations and genuinely aiming at high efficiencies. With the successful implementation by companies such as General Electric (GE) and Motorola, the top management of various types of organizations—Manufacturing, Services, IT, etc., is now more involved in equipping their task-force with a wide range of skill sets in order to achieve its mission. Here the Lean Six Sigma has got the approval of most companies, as it is a powerful tool that combines and increases its umbrella of application, along with its efficiency rate in cost cutting.

Six Sigma Training & Certifications

From the history of Six Sigma, it can be learnt that the key roles have been assigned and structured according to their expert level determined in accordance with the effort put in.

Value of such certifications is driven by a robust process to achieving the certification and success of certified professionals in many organizations. Black Belt Certification can mean additional $20,000–$30,000 per year in salary.

Six Sigma professionals are useful at all levels and are implemented in health care, manufacturing, service, and other type of industries (American Society for Quality 2012). There are trainings offered for black belts, master black belts, green belts, and yellow belts based on the karate color belt system as popularized by the “Godfather” of Six Sigma Mikel Harry. It determines how and what projects are assigned & allocated to them.

Luminis Six Sigma Black belt

• Leads and trains the project teams consisting of green belt trainees to create problem-solving strategies
• Brings about dramatic transformational results
• Takes on taxing re-engineering projects that create sustainability

For majority of six sigma projects, a black belt is a trained professional who supports project teams, taking a leadership role in this effort. He is a full-time change-agent who is allocated to several projects.  A black belt is usually a quality professional, but is often not an expert on the operational process within the scope of project.

A black belt-level employee must give full-time commitment by acting as an initiator. By being an initiator, he prepares an initial project assessment to estimate benefits and identifies the needed project resources. The technologist perspective must be applied to implement Six Sigma tools effectively and appropriately to be used in the DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control) process. The practitioner is also a leader that identifies the barriers to protect the progress of project while leading the team involved and inform the sponsor about project status. The employee must be able to deliver results on time.

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Luminis’ Six Sigma Black Belt, transforms the employee into a professional that understands the underlying Six Sigma principles, which at the same time have a necessary awareness of tools required for Lean thinking.  Their mission is to analyze data and perform statistical functions accurately to identify variable relationships and distribution of data for further analysis. The trainees would be able to validate any points of disparity for effective communication across teams.

Luminis’ Six Sigma Black Belt program, is designed for certification of an individual at the “black belt” level. Six Sigma black belts are able to “lead, train, and manage” Six Sigma projects and apply their Six Sigma knowledge in order to produce bottom-line ‘Earning Before Interest And Taxes (EBIT)’  savings for all types of organizations. Demonstration of management abilities is required in the form of successfully leading Six Sigma project(s) based on experience levels.

Luminis’ Six Sigma Black Belt, is a very comprehensive training program and would emphasize over:

• DMAIC – A methodology for structured problem-solving
• Developing & leading business process improvement projects while linking them directly with explicit bottom-line benefits
• Proficiency over intermediate to very advanced statistical & quality tools, within the framework of DMAIC methodology

Brief Snapshot of

Training Program Contents for Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification

1. Overview and history of Six Sigma & Lean: Corporate implementation and investment in Lean Six Sigma initiatives
2. Overview of Six Sigma certification and training programs, Detailed discussion on DMAIC & DMADV Methodologies
3. Basics of Statistics, 7 Basic Statistical Tools, Six Sigma & normal Distribution curve, more probability distributions
4. Define: Identifying and planning for sponsorship investment to Six Sigma projects, organizing, planning, and setting specific project goals, developing project charter
5. Measure: Identifying and validating measurements and measurement systems, running initial data and changing measurement system strategies, Attribute R&R studies, Gage R&R studies, evaluating data baseline data and estimating new performance goals, determining sigma level
6. Analyze: Identification of critical root-causes, validation of root-causes, usage of advanced Hypothesis Testing & other statistical analysis tools, identifying the need to redesign the process or product for success, Detailed process mapping, Value-stream Mapping, FMEA
7. Improve: Design of Experiments (DoE) advanced designs, generating & implementing solutions and fostering acceptance and buy-in, incorporating lean principles, cost-benefit analysis
8. Control: Implementing Control Plan, SQC & other tools and dashboards for maintaining successful results
9. Exam preparation

Submit your Lean Six Sigma Training & Certification requirements with all the details at: meena@luminisindia.com  We will revert back with price quotation consisting our offer as soon as possible.  Thanks!

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Globalization and international trade, along with advances in information technology, have dramatically increased competition worldwide. To compete in a global market, firms must be equipped with the latest technology, up-to-date information, skilled employees, and advanced managerial skills.  Many organizations emphasize quality as a means of staying competitive in the marketplace in the long run. They view that having a reputation of high quality is like representing future market-share for new customers and maintaining the market share for existing customers over their lifetime. Further, improving quality can provide long-term financial savings, such as scrap and rework reduction. We associate these quality savings as long-term savings that are difficult to quantify. One method to quantify quality is the initiative known as Six Sigma. SIX SIGMA has been the single most-adopted approach for most organizations in last 10-15 years and is the fastest-growing approach in the organizational quality field that has come of age.

LEAN SIX SIGMA (LSS) is a methodology that allows organizations to ‘maximize shareholder value by the fastest rate of improvement in customer satisfaction, cost, quality, process, speed, and invested capital’. It is a combination of well-known waste elimination and process improvement techniques of Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma.

What is Six Sigma?

It is a process that is so well understood and controlled that 6-standard deviations will fit between the average output and the customer-specification limits. The main purposes of using the Six Sigma process are listed below:

1. To deal with a world of declining product prices
2. To compete successfully with the best companies in the world
3. To establish standard language and approaches across functions and across businesses
4. To develop the next generation of leaders

This approach can be defined as the relentless pursuit of process variation reduction and breakthrough improvements that increase customer satisfaction and impact the bottom-line.

The standard framework for implementing a Six Sigma is define, measure, analyze, improve, and control (DMAIC) process.  In this approach, key process input variables are narrowed to a vital few. Having control of a vital few allows for good control of the whole picture. DMAIC is widely used when a product or process already exists but performs inadequately. This management strategy seeks to make an organization more effective and efficient.

DMAIC focuses on eliminating unproductive steps, developing and applying new metrics, and using technology to drive improvement. Six Sigma has a strategic component aimed at not only developing employees’ commitment to it, but also actively involving a higher level of management.

The strategic component of Six Sigma, requires management to identify key processes in its organization, measure process effectiveness and efficiency, and initiate improvements to the worst-performing processes.

Six Sigma is a practical methodology for reducing cost, improving quality, and fostering continuous improvement in the product/process. Because Six Sigma originated through quality, it provides time-tested tools that have enabled continuous improvement for organizations such as GE and Motorola that lead to better performance. Also, it has been widely used by companies which are looking to achieve higher level of customer satisfaction and profitability. This research suggests that due to previous acceptance of Six Sigma by other companies, the ability to produce bottom-line savings, and its foundations in quality would remain very strong.

From product quality program to firm-wide decision-making strategy, Six Sigma is ‘the corner-stone’.

Great Corporates Support Six Sigma Popularity

Six Sigma’s popularity and acceptance came through the work of Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric (GE) in 1995. He observed the success experienced through Bill Smith’s approach and intensely championed and led the implementation of Six Sigma methodology in GE. He not only championed the approach, but also utilized the personnel-driven belt systems (Green Belts, Black Belts, etc.) as a means of identifying high-level directors and managers at GE in the future. Consequently, companies such as Allied Signal, Honeywell and GE adopted this methodology with huge bottom-line results. This further popularized the concept and many business strategies were reframed that led to considerable financial success.

Extensive publicity by 1998, including emphasis in annual reports on Six Sigma, is associated with Bill Smith and Motorola in the late 1980s, and subsequently popularized by GE and Jack Welch in the early 1990s. Six Sigma initiatives implemented by Motorola helped save them $940 million in three years. GE earned around $2.5 billion in the year 1999 by implementing Six Sigma. Honeywell followed the concepts of Six Sigma and saved $1.5 billion in the year 1997.

Other implementations that popularized Six Sigma include companies such as:

1. Honeywell, Dow, and Goodyear inviting key customers and supply chain partners to participate in their Black Belt and other education programs;
2. DuPont uses Six Sigma resources to reduce costs;
3. GE utilizes Six Sigma as consultancy services to customers.
4. In late 1999, Ford Motor Company became the first major automaker to adopt a Six Sigma strategy. At Ford, each car has approximately 20,000 off fixture displays (OFDs). Therefore, if Ford were to attain Six Sigma quality, approximately one car in every 15 produced would contain a defect. The results were real financial savings, verified by financial representatives, returned to the business.
5. Dell Inc, Xerox Corporation and Johnson & Johnson etc. also championed Six Sigma greatly for delivering significant improvements and cost-savings.

As a methodology for improving both factory output and quality, LEAN SIX SIGMA has gained widespread popularity.  The LSS approach is being used to vastly improve processes, profitability, sustainability, and long-term growth at global organizations of all sizes. 

Most of the top companies listed by Fortune 500 magazine integrate Lean and Six Sigma ideologies in all of their operations. Some of them are 3M, Amazon.com, Bank of America, Boeing Frontiers, Caterpillar Inc., Dell, Eastman Kodak Company, General Electric, Honeywell, and so on.  In fact, IBM, Motorola, and GE, etc. offer solutions to businesses based on their type of industries. All these Fortune 500 companies have been extremely quick in bringing LSS best practices to their India operations.

Toyota Production System Changed The World

Lean thinking is fundamentally derived from the Japanese quality movement, specifically at the Toyota Production System (TPS) and was hugely popularized by Womack and Jones (1996). This approach to manufacturing began shortly after the World War II, and was created by Taiichi Ohno, while he was employed by the Toyota motor company. Many Japanese companies such as Toyota were hit by shortages after World War II in both capital and resources. Lean principles were established by Sakichi Toyoda around the same time (1920s) as quality principles were being accepted and implemented. It gained popularity in the American industrial setup where companies chose to exploit the economies of scale and increase production without concern for variety in products which was much needed in the Japanese setup.

This encouraged copious amounts of scrap and inventory as the objective was to achieve maximum throughput at a given time. In other words much waste was created which gave rise to more problems, such as loss of time and money in rework due to defects and holding costs that had to be dealt with.

All Toyota’s employees were instructed to eliminate waste. Waste was defined as 'anything other than the minimum amount of equipment, materials, parts, space, and time which are absolutely essential to add value to the product’.

Through a process of trial and error, Ohno would create a new manufacturing paradigm—the Toyota Production System (as reported by White and Prybutok 2001). The TPS became the dominant production model to emerge from a number of concepts around at the time. As a result of the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) benchmarking study, and the work of Womack et al., US and European companies began adapting the TPS under the title of just-in-time (JIT) to remain competitive with Japanese industry.

But the efficient & organization-wide implementation of Lean Thinking called for a new set of management skills.  The management skills involved to deal with this issue is termed as 'Lean Thinking'. 

Look Beyond Your Organisation

“A Lean process is one in which the value-added time in the process is more than 25% of the total lead time of that process.”

Lean practice can be used in all processes in any type of industry or organization to improve their efficiency. It is applicable to all stages in a supply chain and is thus collectively called the 'Lean Enterprise', which can be understood as a extended business system for organizing and managing product development, operations, suppliers, and customer relations across the full extension of complete supply chain. Your business and other associated organizations, all collectively, strive to use lean principles, practices, and tools to create precise customer value — goods and services with higher quality and fewer defects — with less human effort, less space, less capital, and less time than the traditional system of mass production.

It is very well-known that a far-reaching performance is achieved by the use of Six Sigma and Lean to reduce waste. This in turn reduces cost, an important factor in determining the survival of an enterprise. Manufacturing with Lean in mind, has certain features such as reduced lead times of processes, faster delivery, improved quality of end products, reduction in inventory such as the work-in-process (WIP), low customer service activities, core materials, and products at all customer interfaces. This gives room for incorporating changes.

The standardization of processes and improved service and productivity is now possible. Implementation of Lean depends on the area of application, the culture of that company, the industrial sector it belongs to and its internal customer setup.

The LSS methodology uses a comprehensive methodology incorporating the key elements of both, Six Sigma and Lean, as each stage can gain from the respective techniques. Today, the Six Sigma road map of define, measure, analyze, improve, and control (DMAIC) includes Lean concepts of empowerment and education of everyone in the organization to identify and eliminate non-value adding activities. The integration of the two methodologies attempts to provide empowerment even at the higher level process analysis stages, so that employees have true ownership of the process.

Lean Six Sigma Consulting Training Services India : Our Promise

Luminis India' Six Sigma Trainings, thus, make a point of embedding this strategic component into its Champion, Black Belts and Green Belts programs which are clearly aimed at not only developing employees’ commitment to it, but also actively involving a higher level of management.  These implementation would require the management of organisations to identify the key processes in their organization, measure process effectiveness and efficiency, and initiate improvements to the worst-performing processes.  

The motto of our Consultancy services is "Implementation & Corporate Deployment Made Easy" for our esteemed clients.

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Though economic slowdown continues, wiser companies have realized the need for strengthening and sharpening business acumen of the existing manpower in their organizations. The objective for engaging in corporate training programs lies in making the under-performing staff much more productive through such kind of workshops.

Corporate training workshops can help some companies upgrade the skills of their key leadership teams, enhance their acumen on cost-optimization and create a mindset & attitude that focuses on shareholder return perspective.

Some training modules can help your people become better general managers, making them understand the 'big picture' better and thus, enabling them to take decisions which enhance profitability and value creation for their companies.

It is an economic reality of the day that--the growth and survival of a thriving enterprise will depend on employee retention. Employing good training programs is the key to retaining valued employees too.

Luminis recognizes that continuous improvement is essential for progress and that keeping your employees skilled is a commitment that can be both costly and time consuming. Our corporate training programs are aimed at corporates where the need to adapt with new IT technologies and new business approaches within the business environment is very high. Our training programs provide users confidence to quickly adapt to the changes and perform efficiently in real-time business environment. It does not matter whether you are looking at key programs implementations such as Six Sigma, Change Management, Soft Skills or implementation of newer IT platforms. We intend to support you in all. We critically engage all the key principles of ‘Adult Learning’ methodology in our training programs.

Luminis specializes in organizing onsite-trainings for corporate clients (with a pre-defined size of batch of trainees). We strive hard to you facilitate & support your company by supplying optimum training solutions to your specific training needs. With the availability of requisite time-period we can even meet those training needs which may fall outside the scope of our training programs as well, whether it is due to limitations concerning the content, timescale, number of participants or location of training exercise.

Onsite Training

You may wish us to come to you and deliver training at your official workplace. We can train large or small groups of staff members at your workplace either following our course outlines or with more focus on your own content, goals and objectives. It is a good alternative--if you already have your own training facilities, if you need to hook into your own internal network, or if travel costs for your team would be prohibitive.

Choose from the very best of Lean Six Sigma Training programs:

1. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
2. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

Apart from key IT training programs, we selectively offer a plethora of soft-skills training also:

• Time & Stress Management
• Planning & Prioritization
• Conversation Skills
• Leadership Skills
• Business Communication
• Business Etiquette
• Customer Service
• Customer Focus
• Assertive Communication
• Business Writing
• Team Management
• Creativity & Problem Solving
• Telephone Etiquette
• Stress Management
• Team Building
• Negotiation Skills
• Delegation Skills
• Sales Training

Our Trainers

Luminis recognizes that the quality of our training depends upon the caliber of our trainers and their commitment and enthusiasm in providing exceptional service to our clients. For, we make a point to choose experienced, dedicated and enthusiastic people to be the face of our business, qualified trainers who know their stuff inside out and are passionate about knowledge-sharing.

We aspire to enable the transfer of the technical skills and passion for the subject to our clients by delivering them practical, easy to understand training.

As a result, you are assured that trainees will:

• Receive the highest quality training, where you want it, when you want it and at a competitive price
• Gain practical knowledge and skills that improve job performance
• Learn correct workflow and useful industry tips to speed their processes
• Benefit from our complimentary after course support via email for (1-month).

Cornerstones of Corporate Training

1. Results wrapped around your expectations. All training programs offered by Luminis start with your expectations and desired outcomes. The whole delivery of training revolves around the mutual expectations. Once the training is consummated, we reinforce and measure your new skills and you effectively gauge the results viz-a-viz., expectations & actual requirements.
2. The Learning Cycle. The wholesome approach to learning curve is ensured by building practical skills based upon unlocking the potential, incorporation of action-skills, the measurement of results achieved by skill-application and establishing self-belief among trainees. This way, not only their learning gets momentum, they imbibe even more information also.
3. After-Effects of Training. We ensure that the training doesn't end when trainees leave the classroom. From the moment they leave the training-room, they are made aware of ‘how & why’ of they need to constantly reinforce their new skills to maximize their own potential and knowledge of the IT.
4. Believing you're extended-family, not a client to us. We share the belief that counting ourselves as an extended family or a partner to your organization must be the ideology of Luminis Consulting Services Private Limited, ever compelling us to ensure that you are highly valued at Luminis and we consider it a privilege to be able to share our knowledge with you.
5. Learning evaluation at key junctures. From the very first moment of you making initial inquiry with Luminis, we ensure that all the necessary steps are taken to ensure, not only to become better well-versed with your expectations, but also to deliver a training experience that goes beyond what you ever expected.
6. Knowledge Growth. Our aim is not just to train your people but help them reach a level of knowledge that really equips them to maximize their experience in Information Technology, enabling them to work faster and more creatively.

We are proud of our courses and after-course support which is acknowledged by our clients. If you have questions or need help simply ‘Email’ us.