Innovation with Lean and Six Sigma

Course Number: 12-7-RS
Recommended Duration: 2 Days

Course Overview

Lean and Six Sigma are two popular methodologies for improving manufacturing performance. Lean is a set of tools and principles that focus on reducing waste in the process. Six Sigma is a set of tools and methodology that focuses on reducing variation in the process. Many organizations have combined these to implement a comprehensive manufacturing improvement process. These powerful methodologies have a demonstrated track record for achieving results with existing products and processes. Design for Six Sigma goes one step further. It uses a methodology to create a new product or service that meets a set of specific customer needs. However, many organizations have found that the results from Lean, Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma programs only led to incremental improvements. These companies were expecting paradigm shifts in their operations and did not experience that. That is because a fundamental principle in each of these techniques is to reduce risk – yet innovation is inherently risky. There are several paradigm-shifting innovation techniques that can be embedded in the Lean and Six Sigma methodologies that often create the looked for improvements. These techniques do not replace the Lean and Six Sigma techniques, rather they augment them. This course will discuss the impact of these innovation techniques and show how to embed them in the Lean Six Sigma methodologies.

Course Objectives

• Understand why Lean and Six Sigma methodologies inhibit innovation.
• Be able to apply innovation techniques on a technical projects.
• Understand how to augment Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to enable innovation.

Key Topics

Day 1 Agenda – Innovation Techniques

• Principles embedded in Lean, Six Sigma, and Design for Six Sigma methodologies
• Lateral thinking innovation
• Value Creation Mapping innovation

Day 2 Agenda – Innovation Application

• Redefining “Value” to enhance innovation
• Setting Innovation Design Targets and KPIs
• Embedding Innovation into Lean
• Embedding Innovation into Six Sigma
• Embedding Innovation into Design for Six Sigma

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