Lean Six Sigma TrainingOriel Incorporated has been creating world-class training materials for more than 25 years. Our extensive library can be used to deliver on-site classroom training to give your employees the skills necessary to successfully apply Lean Six sigma techniques to improve your processes.

Our training programs are designed to:

  • Provide executives with the ability to lead successful Lean Six Sigma programs.
  • Assist with identifying and implementing Lean Six Sigma projects.
  • Help to pinpoint potential Lean Six Sigma expert resources within the organization (e.g., Green Belts, Black Belts, etc.).
  • Train the selected resources in the application of Lean Six Sigma methodologies.
  • Coach Lean Six Sigma project teams.


Our standard training courses include:

Our training materials and programs can be customized to incorporate your organizational objectives, examples, and data to fit your particular needs.
 



Introduction to Error Risk Reduction (ERRQ)
(3 days)

Demonstrate your commitment to operational excellence by managing a major challenge to world-class performance: human error.  Understanding how to identify root causes of human error and learning ways to avoid them will help you to produce better products and services for your customers.

This course will teach you how to gauge your organization’s vulnerability to error and the effectiveness of current practices to deal with it, systematically identify commonplace adverse influences that increase risk of error and/or make its effects more serious, and understand how low-cost changes and fine-tuning can improve reliability.  Mastering these processes will help to reduce human error in your organization and give you the tools to increase your position in the marketplace.

 
Lean Six Sigma Champions (CLS)
(3.5 days)

Lean Six Sigma efforts will succeed only if your organization's leaders believe that those efforts are in the organization's and their own best interests. Champions are organizational leaders who have been selected to translate the strategic direction and high-level Lean Six Sigma deployment plan into action.

Champions:

  • Align resources.
  •  Select specific projects.
  • Lead the Lean Six Sigma implementation.
  • Review progress and adjust the deployment plan as necessary.

Oriel’s 3.5 day workshop helps champions successfully deploy Lean Six Sigma methodologies and select projects linked to the strategic plan. More specifically, this workshop enables the champion team to lead the Lean Six Sigma initiative, implement a high-level deployment plan, and define the champion leadership roles in supporting and executing that plan. This workshop is best conducted in two separate sessions: a 2-day session and a 1.5 day session. In between the two sessions is a break when champions gather documentation and collect data pertaining to the plan.

There are two primary outcomes from this workshop:
 

  • A list of defined projects, with charters, ready to be initiated.
  • Champions prepared to fulfill their roles in leading the overall initiative.

 
 
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (GL0, GL1, GL2)
(3 weeks )

Lean Six Sigma Green Belts are typically leaders of smaller, less complex improvement projects (based on the DMAIC methodology) or team members on projects led by Black Belts.

Oriel's unique approach to the integration of Lean and Six Sigma takes full advantage of the power of both philosophies and makes it easier for Green Belts to know what tool to use in any particular situation. Based on our experience working with a variety of clients over many years, we recognize that there are two types of DMAIC projects: typical Six Sigma DMAIC projects and Lean DMAIC projects.

Typical Six Sigma DMAIC projects are characterized by the following:
 

  • The detailed solution is unknown.
  • An organization has tried to solve this problem before using a different method.
  • More advanced statistics are required.
  • Such projects are generally conducted in a project fashion
  • Example of a typical Six Sigma DMAIC project: Reduce defects when the cause is unknown.

LEAN DMAIC projects (often call kaizen events) are characterized by the following:

  • The detailed solution is unknown.
  • The problem can be solved by applying a known Lean approach (e.g., 5Ss or just-in-time)
  • Less rigor in data collection and analysis is required.
  • The facilitator usually conducts the project in a blitz fashion.
  • Example of a Lean DMAIC project: Reduce lead times and balance the workload.

The goal of the 3-week Lean Six Sigma DMAIC Green Belt certification course is to help team leaders and team members successfully complete DMAIC and LEAN DMAIC projects. The first week of training covers the details of Lean and the Lean approaches.  The second and third weeks cover the DEFINE, MEASURE, ANALYZE, IMPROVE, and CONTROL steps and teach leadership, facilitation, and change management skills.

Our three-week Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training for service is pulled directly from the first three weeks of our five-week Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training for service. This design allows you to develop Green Belts and Black Belts in your organization side by side, which can improve team leader and team member effectiveness and help to reduce overall training. Manufacturing and financial service versions of this course  are available.   

It’s recommended that Green Belts receive additional coaching and mentoring as they participate in Lean DMAIC events or DMAIC projects. Oriel offers both of these support systems as well as specialty training and coaching for Green Belts who will be participating in design (DMADV) projects or process managements efforts.


 
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification (BL1Q)
(5 weeks)

Oriel Incorporated’s unique approach to the integration of Lean and Six Sigma takes full advantage of the power of both philosophies and makes it easier for you to know what tool to use when.

Black Belts are the driving force for translating the Lean Six Sigma theory and methods into results.  Lean Six Sigma Black Belts can be trained in one or more of the three key methodologies (improvement, design, and process management). The majority of Black Belts focus on improvement, whereas specialty Black Belts are trained in process management and/or design.

Improvement-focused Black Belts employ the DMAIC methodology.  Based on Oriel’s experience working with a variety of organizations and industries for more than 25 years, we recognize that there are two types of DMAIC projects: Six Sigma DMAIC projects and Lean DMAIC projects (often called kaizen events).

Typical Six Sigma DMAIC projects are characterized by the following:
 

  • The detailed solution is unknown.
  • An organization has tried to solve this problem before using a different method.
  • More advanced statistics are required.
  • Such projects are generally conducted in a project fashion
  • Example of a typical Six Sigma DMAIC project: Reduce defects when the cause is unknown.

 
LEAN DMAIC projects (often call kaizen events) are characterized by the following:

  • The detailed solution is unknown.
  • The problem can be solved by applying a known Lean approach (e.g., 5Ss or just-in-time)
  • Less rigor in data collection and analysis is required.
  • The facilitator usually conducts the project in a blitz fashion.
  • Example of a Lean DMAIC project: Reduce lead times and balance the workload.

The purpose of the five-week Lean Six Sigma DMAIC Black Belt training is to help team leaders learn how to lead DMAIC and LEAN DMAIC projects. The first week of training covers the details of Lean and the Lean approaches. The second and third weeks cover the DEFINE, MEASURE, ANALYZE, IMPROVE, and CONTROL steps and teach leadership, facilitation, and change management skills.

During weeks four and five, Minitab or JMP software is taught and used to support the more advanced statistical tools, including normal theory, hypothesis testing, advanced control charts, regression analysis, sampling, and design of experiments.

It’s recommended that Black Belts receive additional coaching and mentoring as they run Lean DMAIC events or DMAIC projects. Oriel offers these support systems as well as specialty training and coaching for Black Belts who will be running design (DMADV) projects or process managements efforts.



Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Certification (MA5Q)
(10 days)

Transform your organization by becoming a Six Sigma Master Black Belt—an indispensable asset to your company. Oriel’s intensive program focuses on increasing the ability of experienced Six Sigma Black Belts and other process improvement professionals to take leadership roles in achieving organizational excellence.  This is accomplished by combining advanced technical skills with strategic decision-making capabilities.

Oriel-trained Master Black Belts can plan strategy with senior executives, support or act as deployment champions, and lead and coach Black Belts through complex improvement and design projects.

Tailored to trained Six Sigma Black Belts and other senior quality professionals, this comprehensive workshop-based course provides a strategic view of the three Lean Six Sigma methodologies (process improvement, design and innovation, and process management) in addition to building skills in advanced statistics, change management, financial management, project management, and decision making.

 
 
Using Lean Six Sigma to Support FDA's PAT Initiative (PATP)
(2 days)

Process analytical technologies (PAT) is the wave of the future for the pharmaceutical industry. As defined by the FDA, PAT is a “system for designing, analyzing, and controlling manufacturing through timely measurements (i.e., during processing) of critical quality and performance attributes of raw and in-process materials and processes with the goal of ensuring final product quality.”

As a scientific, risk-based framework, PAT is, essentially, about improving processes for effectiveness and efficiency, which leads to the application of lean Six Sigma. In this course, learn how Lean and Six Sigma tools can play an important and effective role in the application of PAT in your organization.