In today’s competitive market, the mantra is “Innovate or die.” Innovation is what separates your products and services from those of your competitors; it is innovation that draws new customers to you from your competition; and it is innovation that ensures loyalty with your existing customer base. Innovation can be costly without a methodology to reduce the resources required or to create products that are capable of delivering Six Sigma.
Goals:
The goal of this workshop is to show you how to apply Six Sigma principles to product design and creation. Our focus is on teaching you to eliminate the problems associated with product development, while enhancing the opportunity for value added features.
To address this, Brand Consulting Group, Inc. will teach you how to design robust products and services by identifying opportunity and understanding your customers. By listening to what your customers want and applying the Six Sigma methodologies, you’ll be able to create customer driven designs while reducing their time to market. Once you’ve achieved that, BRAND CONSULTING GROUP, INC. will share with you how to maintain those gains.
As with all our products, BRAND CONSULTING GROUP, INC. will work with you to build a program that is customized to match your current performance level, business culture, organizational history, and present expertise.
Description:
This workshop uses a hands-on approach to teach you the framework and benefits of the Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) approach. You’ll have an opportunity to learn various approaches to DFSS implementation and how to integrate the process into existing initiatives.
As part of the DFSS methodology, we’ll teach you how to mistake-proof your process so that you can eliminate defects in your final product. You’ll also learn how to perform Failures Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Anticipatory Failure Determination (AFD) to identify potential failures. To further reduce variability, BRAND CONSULTING GROUP, INC. will show you how to use Design of Experiments (DOE) to reduce variability and create a robust design, and then how to validate that design and use Estimated Sigma in order to ensure that the design meets its quality standards.
Skills:
- Use Disciplined Critical to Quality (QTC) flow-down
- Create Controlled Design Parameters
- Design for robust performance and productivity
- Use functionally integrated product development
- Apply best practices analytical tools from Six Sigma
- Techniques for Portfolio Management
- Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
- Consulting and facilitation skills
- Creative Confrontation Methods
- Project Management and Planning Tools
- Uncovering, Selecting, and Sorting Customer Needs
Tools:
You will gain experience with DMADV, Voice of the Customer (VOC) analysis, FMEA, AFD, State Gate, Kano, the Quality Loss Function, and a variety of design reviews, design scorecards, flowcharts, performance functions, Pugh Matrix, Rolled Throughput Yield, checklists, Control Charts, experiment creation and analysis, TRIZ, qualification testing, and market testing.
Format:
The workshop can be formatted in one of 3 ways:
Executive overview:
A one day seminar that gives a general overview of the concepts sufficient to develop a plan and integrate DFSS tools into current practices.
5 Day Course: In depth overview of tools and methodologies of DFSS.
10 Day Workshop: Application of DFSS to a specific work related project.
Requirements:
In order to take full advantage of this workshop, a candidate should have basic math skills and be knowledge of basic statistical concepts such as mean and standard deviation.
Who Should Attend: Any member of your organization involved in quality innovation.
Price:
$2,000/course 1 Day Executive Overview
$10,000/course 5 Day Course with Tools
$20,000/course 10 Day Course with Tools and Projects
plus course manuals and travel expenses for the instructor with a maximum of 15 people