Design for Six Sigma

Objectives

• Understand why Six Sigma is vital to design.
• Learn about the three strategies: DMAIC, DMADV, and process management.
• Understand and apply the DMADV model.
• Translate Voice of the Customer (VOC) data into key quality characteristics (KQCs) using quality function deployment (QFD).
• Create conceptual designs using creativity tools.
• Perform risk analyses using FMEA and fault trees.
• Use propagation of variance and tolerance stacking.
• Use designed experiments to identify key variables and build predictive models.
• Analyze designs for reliability and sigma performance.

Topics

• Introduction to Six Sigma
• Defining the project
• Charters and project plans
• Change plans
• Risk analysis
• Measurement requirements
• Analyzing and verifying design
• Creativity tools
• Designing product
• Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Tolerance stacking for sums, differences, products, and quotients
• Propagation of variances for variables that are functions of other variables
• Reliability statistics

Who Should Attend

This is a fast-moving, interactive, toolkit-based course for Six Sigma design team members who need to understand how to apply the DMADV method. Six Sigma Black Belts and Green Belts who have completed a Six Sigma project are excellent candidates. Attendees should bring a potential design project to work on in class.