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Our mission is to anticipate and meet the process improvement and training needs of our clients with integrity, creativity, and a passion for adding value.
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"The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need."--Imai Quantum Associates comprehensive Six Sigma deployment process includes on and/or off site Black Belt and Green Belt Training and customized Six Sigma consulting services. What is Six Sigma? For too many organizations the hidden costs of defects and waste in the way they operate are huge. When you consider how many errors may be lurking in company-wide processes, the monetary impact on overall productivity, customer satisfaction, and profits multiplies dramatically. The Six Sigma approach to managing emphasizes uncovering the hidden costs of poor quality and taking action to reduce these costs. Six Sigma is a breakthrough process improvement initiative focused on driving defects from your processes. It is a continual improvement process that seeks to align the voice of the customer with the voice of the process. Achieving Six Sigma means your processes are delivering only 3.4 defects per million opportunities—in other words they are working nearly perfectly. Like Lean, Six Sigma uses the value-add proposition to establish the strategic alignment of the voice of the process with the voice of the customer. Today's customer expects high quality and low costs. To meet these expectations and increase sales and profitability, your organization must eliminate as many non-valued-added steps and defects as possible from your processes. Quantum Associates Six Sigma process is based on the DMAIC model—Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control. Thus, although the methodology used for each organization is similar, we fully customized each application to meet the challenges of your individual business and disciplines. DMAIC MODEL
Key Benefits
Our CapabilitiesOur strategic partners offer the following six sigma training events. All of the workshops are facilitated by Certified Six Sigma Black Belts with over 20 years of corporate work experience. One-Day Six-Sigma Employee Overview Training This one-day training event is designed to increase your employees understanding of Six Sigma and includes the following topics: background and history of Six-Sigma, what Six-Sigma measures—DPM/DPMO, overview on how to structure the Black Belt and Green Belt programs, overview of the five phases of the DMAIC model and the tools/activities used in each phase, the impact of the voice of the customer on quality improvement and achieving your organization’s mission, brainstorming sessions: Roles and responsibilities for Six-Sigma breakthrough quality improvement—employees and management, and What impact will Six-Sigma have on how you manage the business? Three-Day Six-Sigma Champion Training This program will prepare your executives and managers with significant overall business responsibility to: select and prioritize projects, select and mentor Black Belts, remove barriers and ensure Black Belts receive the support they need, drive Six-Sigma to produce breakthrough results, and share best practices. Four-Week Six-Sigma Black Belt Training This training is spread over four months and is designed to build your Black Belts understanding of Six-Sigma methodologies so that they can: become experts on Six-Sigma tools, lead, execute and complete DMAIC projects, teach team members the Six-Sigma methodology and tools, identify major improvement opportunities and refine project details and scope, and mentor Green Belts. Candidates will be expected to have identified an approved project that could generate at least $150,000 in savings for the organization or an 80% reduction in defects, or both. One-Week Green Belt Training This training is intended for employees from any function or level in the organization and is designed to provide an understanding of the DMAIC methodology. These employees can be assigned to project teams. The training includes simulation and interactive exercises to sustain the following concepts: Understanding Six-Sigma and its role achieving competitive advantage, overview of the DMAIC model, introduction to Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control phases of the DMAIC model. Six Sigma Consulting/Facilitation Quantum Associates can bring some distinct advantages to your Six-Sigma Implementation process. Perhaps most importantly, we will provide you with the close attention and expertise you deserve. We will assign experienced associates to handle your Six Sigma project. In addition, we have the flexibility and responsiveness to meet your training deadlines. We offer you a very high level of service along with specialized knowledge and experience to handle complex assignments quickly. “We implemented the six sigma problem solving methods I learned form Mr. Carter of Quantum Associates and now production is running any job with greater than 5 components with the standard labor (the solution we developed in class). We still collect data and will reanalyze again in a few months. Probably do another Pareto to determine the greatest defects again and see where we are. I do know that overall defects have been down the last month. It is probably a result of the changes we made. People in the department were impressed at the analytical tools I learned from the class...If I know of anyone in a small to medium business in need of lean management, six sigma or ISO 9001:2000, I will definitely be sure to send them your way.” —Production Supervisor for a Medical Device Manufacturer Basic Business Statistics Workshop The Basic Business
Statistics workshop provides the following benefits for participants:
The workshop is led by an
instructor with over 10 years of experience teaching business statistics at the
university level. This is an ideal learning workshop for Six Sigma Belt
candidates. (Click here for more
information)
On Line Six Sigma Certification training available at: http://www.sixsigmaonline.org Six Sigma News (Please click on the links below to learn more) Integrating Lean and Six Sigma make the right choice! Contact us today to learn more about how our Six Sigma services can help you improve your competitive advantage and position you for long-term survival in the marketplace. You'll be glad you did.
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