Six Sigma Green Belt: Overview

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Six Sigma Green Belt Overview

• Robert Setaputra

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What is Six Sigma?

• Six Sigma is the relentless and rigorous pursuit
  of the reduction of variation in all critical
  processes to achieve continuous and breakthrough
  improvement that impact the bottom line and
  increase customer satisfaction.

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Six Sigma

• Goal
• To produce goods and/or services at 6s level.
• Vision
• Drive industries to produce and design
  products/services according to 6s standard.
• Strategy
• Use a data driven approach to achieve 6s level.

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Six Sigma Benefits

• Financial Benefits
• ROI, NPV, EPS, etc
• Operations Benefits
• Flow rates, downtime, scarp rate, etc.

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Six Sigma Management (p.26)

• Senior Executive
• Executive Committee Member
• Champion
• Master Black Belt
• Black Belt
• Green Belt
• Process Owner

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Champion

• Champions should take a very active sponsorship
  and leadership role in conducting and
  implementing 6s projects.
• Some of their responsibilities
• Provide an ongoing communication link between
  project team and executive committee.
• Keep the team focused and stayed within budget.
• Select a black belt to lead the project team.
• Participate in the tollgate review process.

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Master Black Belt

• A master black belt takes a leadership role as
  keeper of the 6s process by leveraging his/her
  skills with projects that are led by black belts
  and green belts.
• Proven change of agent, leader, facilitator, and
  technical expert in 6s.

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Black Belt

• A black belt is a full time change agent and
  improvement leader who may not be in expert in
  the process under study.
• Some of their responsibilities
• Help to prepare a project objective
• Communicate with the champion and process owner
  about progress of the project.
• Lead 6s project team.
• Coach and train project members

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Green Belt

• A green belt is an individual who works on
  projects part time. Green belts are the work
  horses of 6s projects.
• Green belts sometimes are allowed to work full
  time / lead on simpler projects.
• Some of their responsibilities
• Define a project objective.
• Facilitate the team through all the project.
• Analyze data through all phases of the project.
• Communicate with the champion, master black belt,
  black belt, and process owner.

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Process Owner

• A process owner is the manager of a process. A
  process owner has the responsibility for the
  process and also has the authority to change the
  process.
• Some of their responsibilities
• Be accountable for the best practice methods and
  output of his/her process.
• Understand how the process works and the
  relationship of the process with other processes
  in the organization.
• Participate in the tollgate review process.
• Accept and manage the improved process.

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The Ratios
Certification Level of Organization Supervision Ratios
Master Black Belt 1 1 to 10
Black Belt 6-12 1 to 4-8
Green Belt 25-50
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Objective of the Program

• Introduce basic 6s methodology i.e. DMAIC
• Introduce basic tools needed to tackle 6s
  projects.
• Provide a solid foundation to the next
  certification level i.e. black belt.