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Design for Six Sigma

Suitable for This course assumes a foundation level awareness of Lean Six Sigma and lean techniques
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Duration 4 days
Module S7
Location Stratford upon Avon
Facilitator Andrew Ruddick
Dates View course dates
Price £1,580 per delegate (plus VAT)
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This 4-day course will give you an excellent perspective on the DFSS methodology and how it may be applied. Equally applicable to manufacturing and service environments, the training uses the 'House of Quality' approach as its foundation.

The course provides training on the range of DFSS tools and techniques and shows clearly how these link with and build on the more familiar Lean Six Sigma Improvement tools that you may already be using in your business. The practical challenges of Implementation of DFSS will also be discussed

Curriculum Outline
The Curriculum is built around a case study and a variety of practical exercises to give participants real hands on experience in application of DMADV techniques

Design For Six Sigma Introduction and Overview
The business challenges of Innovation, An overview of DMADV (the Design for Six Sigma Framework) and why it makes the critical difference, 7 principles of DMADV, Quality Function Deployment and the “House of Quality” , DMADV building on DMAIC, Linking DMADV with new product stage gate processes.

Define
Project start up, Market and customer segmentation, The change management challenges of DMADV.

Measure
Voice of the Customer & Introduction to advanced VOC techniques, House of Quality 1, Benchmarking and setting design goals, Design scorecards, Crystallising the value proposition.

Analyse
Functional Analysis, House of Quality 2, Creative Thinking, Concept selection.

Design
Building the design elements, Lean design tools, Simulation & Scale up (including design for operation), Capability Evaluation, Robust Designs & Tolerancing, Intro to DOE.

Verify
Piloting & testing, Control Planning, Handover to operations.

Preparing for a DFSS Implementation
How to prepare for a successful DFSS deployment. Why & how to integrate DFSS with existing stage gate New product development processes.