Lean: Six Sigma Basics

Lean: Six Sigma Basics

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This course, from the MIT Open Courseware Library, introduce Six Sigma, a valuable approach for improving process quality central to Lean thinking. It includes an active learning exercise in which students learn how to interpret a basic statistical process control chart.

In this course, you'll learn how to:

    • Recognize that Six Sigma is a valuable approach for improving process quality
    • Interpret a basic Statistical Process Control chart
    • Distinguish between process and specified control limits
    • Describe a capable process

    1.  Overview and Objectives - 4 minutes

      1. Overview
      2. What do you already know?

    2. Six Sigma - 5 minutes

      1. What is Six Sigma
      2. Defects and Six Sigma
      3. Statistical Process Control Chart

    3. Exercise: Process Control Charts - 8 minutes

      1. Exercise: Making a Process Control Chart
      2. Results

    4. DMAIC and Process Variations - 6 minutes

      1. DMAIC Process
      2. Process Variations

    5. Exercise: Process Monitoring - 8 minutes

      1. Exercise: Process Monitoring 
      2. Results

    6. Process Capability - 6 minutes

      1. Process Capability
      2. Non-Centered Distributions
      3. Cp versus Cpk

    7.  Wrap-up - 5 minutes

      1. Wrap-up
      2. What do You Know Now? 
    Earll Murman, Hugh McManus, Annalisa Weigel, and Bo Madsen. 16.660J Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods, January IAP 2012. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed 2 Sep, 2015). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA