Lean Six Sigma Consulting – Arrow Head Consultants

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Lean Six Sigma is designed to eliminate problems, remove non-value waste and inefficiency, and enhance working conditions to satisfy customers’ demands. This method combines tools and concepts of both Lean Manufacturing, and Six Sigma principles. This collective methodology can eliminate all 8 Leans wastes within your entire business model while assuring consistency of quality in production and organizational processes. Lean six sigma’s team-oriented approach has proven results in maximizing business efficiency and profit. This is why many companies prefer seeking professional help by taking Lean Six Sigma consulting services and enjoying its benefits.

What will you get from ARROWHEAD’s Lean Six Sigma Consultant service?

Our experts as lean six sigma consultants (Black Belts and Master Black Belt levels) are well experienced and certified in this field. They have worked across several countries and multiple sectors to help clients embed these concepts into their business models. ARROWHEAD’s consultants will assess an organization’s entire operations/business model to create multiple opportunities for improvements with concise strategies that will help increase efficiency, improve turnaround time and most importantly lower costs.

How ARROWHEAD’s Lean Six Sigma will benefit employees of your organization

Upskilled team members

Certification in Lean Six Sigma helps employees to improve their skillsets and personality. An employee’s ability to manage crises and develop novel solutions will increase the company’s chances of fast growth and develop a healthy competitive work culture.

Increased chances of promotion

Elevated skillsets mean chances of getting promoted to a higher position with a bigger role to play and wider set of responsibilities without hiring from outside. Certification in Lean Six Sigma can greatly influence this opportunity.

Strengthen Reputation

Certification in Lean Six Sigma builds any employee’s reputation and opens the door to many opportunities for the future. Customers view Lean Six Sigma certification as a commitment to in terms of quality, time, and cost.

Frequently Asked Question

What is Lean Six Sigma, and how does it benefit my organisation?

Lean is process improvement philosophy that is based on identifying “value” as defined by customer and ensuring that all our actions are based on maximizing this value for our clients. In other words, minimizing or eliminating all non-value-added activities. There are 8 wastes as defined by Lean concepts. If you can minimize these 8 wastes, you will add more value for your clients.
Six Sigma is a methodology that improves consistency of product or service. Definition of 6s is 3.4 defects in every 1 million or 10 lakh opportunities. And yes, this is possible!

How long does implementing Lean Six Sigma take for a company?

This is a loaded question. It is as good as asking “how long will it take to improve myself?”
We have seen clients with sincere focus able to minimize 8 lean wastes and improve consistency of their service or product in about 6-9 months. Once they achieve sustainable results, they tend to then aspire for more and start building stretch targets, thereby enhancing the Lean Six Sigma journey to its fullest potential.

Do I need experience participating in Lean Six Sigma training?

It is advisable to have 6-12 months of hands-on work industry experience to begin LSS training.
If you have basic knowledge of quality, productivity, root-cause analysis then you can skip White belt and begin from Yellow belt.

What certifications are available for Lean Six Sigma?

a. There are 5 levels for LSS certifications.

b. Starting with White up to Master Black belt.

c. Details of each belt is given under corporate training page.

d. Duration of each skill belt

White – 1 day
Yellow – 2 days
Green – 8 days split into 2 weeks of 4 days each across 1 month with a project
Black – 15 days split into 3 weeks of 5 days each across 3 months with project
Master Black – 25 days split into 5 weeks of 5 days each across 6 months with project

e. Post training, candidates must undergo online exam.

f. Please refer to corporate training page for all details on each belt.

How do you measure the success of Lean Six Sigma projects?

a. There are 3 main ways to measure this.

Financial

LSS projects must have traceability to your P&L in terms of cost reductions, margin improvement, productivity improvement, decrease in cost of RM or rework or scrap or waste material, improvement in ontime delivery metrics, reduction in inventory levels of RM, WIP, FG, space consolidation and so on.
Ultimately you should see impact on top line and/or bottom-line or both with each project.

Visual

Your entire workplace should have 5S implemented and thereby look neat, presentable and vibrant to work within.
Everything should be in its place and there should be a place for everything. A workplace that is not 5S will continue having 8 lean wastes.

Mindset

You will notice a change in mindset of employees – language, behaviour, professionalism, punctuality, responsiveness, communication skills, urge to take more responsibility, sense of teamwork with “everyone in it together” to add maximum value for client.