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Overview

To create a solid foundation for the remaining phases of the DMAIC cycle (Analyze, Improve, Control) by ensuring a clear understanding of the problem, relevant data, and defined goals

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9 hours

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Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Define specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) project goals and objectives
  • Analyze the voice of the customer (VOC) data to translate it to critical to quality (CTQ) parameters
  • Explain process mapping and define key performance metrics
  • Plan data collection activities to quantify the performance of the process
More about this course
  • The course is designed for Lean Six Sigma professionals to excel in the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB) exam
  • The course focuses specifically on the first two phases of the define, measure, analyze, improve, and control (DMAIC) framework
  • In the define phase, you will learn to define a problem statement and project scope, whereas in the measure phase, you will learn about effective data collection strategies and measurement system analysis (MSA)

The DMAIC Framework - Define and Measure Phase
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Curriculum

Define: Project Identification, Voice of the Customer (VoC), and Project Management Basics

Course introduction

Project identification and selection

Process components, boundaries, and benchmarking concept

SIPOC diagram

Customer identification and VoC data gathering

VoC to CTQ factors and Kano analysis

Defining project scope: Methods, charter, and steps

Defining project scope and key metrics

Course overview

Stakeholder insights

Graded Quiz: Define: Project Identification, Voice of the Customer (VoC), and Project Management Basics

Practice Quiz: Project identification and selection

Practice Quiz: Voice of the customer (VoC) and customer identification

Practice Quiz: Project methodology

Importance of performing key stakeholder analysis

Define: Project Management and Planning Tools

Work breakdown structure (WBS) and Gantt charts

CPM and PERT essentials

Project documentation and risk analysis

Management and planning tools

SWOT analysis and decision matrix

Quality metrics and COQ

Team evolution and management of roles and responsibilities

Overview: Team and decision-making tools

Data Cleaning and preprocessing

Graded Quiz: Define: Project Management and Planning Tools

Practice Quiz: Project planning, risk analysis, and management tools

Practice Quiz: Overview: Management and planning tools

Practice Quiz: Process performance metrics and team stages

Project planning, risk analysis, and management tools

Measure: Probability and Statistics and Collecting and Summarizing Data

Process analysis, documentation, and flowchart

Probability principles and the central limit theorem

Statistical distributions and its types

Chi-square, student’s T-distribution, and F-distributions

Data types and data collection plan (DCP)

Data sampling methods

Operational definition worksheet (ODW)

Measures of central tendency and dispersion

Graphical methods

Process Control

Graded Quiz: Measure: Probability and Statistics and Collecting and Summarizing Data

Practice Quiz: Process mapping and principles of probability

Practice Quiz: Statistical distributions, Data sampling, and data collection methods

Practice Quiz: Descriptive statistics

Process maps and flowcharts

Measure: Measurement System Analysis (MSA)

Measurement System Analysis (MSA) and its properties

Attribute agreement analysis (AAA)

Process and specification limit

Process capability and performance indices

Short-term and long-term capability

Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (Gage R&R) for Continuous Data

Graded Quiz: Measure: Measurement System Analysis (MSA)

Practice Quiz: Measurement system analysis (MSA)

Practice Quiz: Process performance and indices

How do you think MSA impacts quality and decision-making?

Peer-Reviewed Assignment

Course wrap-up

Congratulations & Next Steps

Thanks from the Course Team

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    May 25, 2024
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