Six Sigma – Yellow Belt

• Six Sigma purpose and characteristics
• Evolution of Six Sigma
• Core concepts
• Organization’s readiness for a project
• How Six Sigma can benefit an organisation
• Foundational lean concepts
• Value- and nonvalue-added activities including waste
• Just-in-time method
• Poka-yoke and Kanban-pull
• Value stream mapping
• Integrating Lean and Six Sigma
• Lean deployment

• Team types and descriptions
• How Six Sigma provide value
• Forming, storming, or norming a team
• Performing, adjourning and stages of team evolution
• Brainstorming session
• Nominal group technique
• Multivoting technique
• Team communication approaches
• Effective meeting agenda
• Recording minutes for meetings
• Six Sigma project roles and responsibilities
• Characteristics of a Yellow Belt
• Matching team members with their responsibilities

• Using quality tools
• Using and creating Pareto charts
• Creating a process map flowchart
• Running charts
• Root cause analysis
• Cause and effect diagram
• Using scatter diagrams with interpretations
• Interpreting a histogram

• Measuring process performance
• Calculating defects per unit (DPU)
• Calculating defects per million opportunities (DPMO)
• Calculating first time yield
• Calculating rolled throughput yield
• Costing poor quality as a performance metric
• Types of quality costs
• Calculating cycle time and take time
• Using Six Sigma metrics

• Voice of the customer
• Voice of the business
• Implementing a VOC strategy
• Using customer information for project definition
• Best practices
• Using a priority matrix
• Six Sigma methodology
• Project stakeholders
• Internal and external customers
• Process owners for a Six Sigma project
• Process components
• SIPOC diagram variables

• Project charter elements
• Goal and problem statements
• Scoping a Six Sigma project
• Communication plan elements
• Planning tools
• Work breakdown structure
• Gantt charts
• Activity network diagrams
• Affinity diagrams
• Matrix charts
• Relations charts
• Tree diagrams
• Conducting a tollgate review

• Descriptive and inferential statistics
• Measures of central tendency and dispersion
• Calculating the mean, median and mode of a sample
• Range of samples
• Standard deviations of samples
• Sample variances
• Inferential statistics tools
• Effects of outliers

• Data classification
• Qualitative and quantitative data
• Continuous and discrete data
• Types of measurement scales
• Automated data collection
• Data sampling and collection plans
• Best practices for data collection
• Quality of data
• Data collection technologies
• Data collection checklists

• Measurement system errors
• Accuracy and precision
• Linearity, stability, and bias in a project
• Repeatability and reproducibility studies
• Total measurement system variation and analysis

• Lean concepts and tools
• 5S activities
• Value analysis and waste
• Value stream analysis
• Failure modes and effects analysis
• Types of FMEA
• Percentage reduction in RPN
• FMEA worksheet best practices

• Variable types
• Normal and binomial distribution
• Distribution curves
• Causes of variations
• Root cause analysis
• 5 Whys Analysis
• Process map symbols
• Using relational matrix charts for root cause analysis
• Force-field analysis

• Correlation analysis
• Using scatter diagrams to determine correlation
• Statistical significance of correlation
• Linear regression
• Regression analysis formula
• Hypotheses types
• Type I and Type II errors
• One-tailed and two-tailed hypothesis tests
• Power of a hypothesis test

• Kaizen characteristics, activities and processes
• Applying Kaizen to a project
• PDCA cycle for projects
• Cost-benefit analysis

• Control plan
• Process control to the process owner
• In-control processes
• Key elements of a control chart
• Xbar-R charts
• Effective documentation and document hierarchy

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