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Does anyone here know anything about it? I am going through the class now and find it pretty interesting. Just curious..
 
Team Infidel said:
Does anyone here know anything about it? I am going through the class now and find it pretty interesting. Just curious..
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One week of class and two completed projects. Every person in Raytheon is required to be a 6 sigma specialist and to post their certificate on their office/work station. I completed my first project in 2004 and another in 2005. I'm supposed to be working on another one next year.

If you want, I'll send you a copy of my team's presentation and you can see which methods we used.

Redleg,
It is a work flow process designed to streamline or lean out waste. There are methods of approaching and defining a problem in manufacturing and using Six Sigma training to redesign the process and put it into effect on the floor. Mostly models are used by different teams to approach the problem and the results recorded and the most savings of time, effort, and money is the one used.
 
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I am going throught Lean Six Sigma training. Two weeks for Green Belt, then I have to do a project for it to be certified. The Army is really picking this up big time. They want a 3% total Army population to be Green Belt trained by end of FY07.

How well does this look on a civilian resume?
 
Team Infidel said:
I am going throught Lean Six Sigma training. Two weeks for Green Belt, then I have to do a project for it to be certified. The Army is really picking this up big time. They want a 3% total Army population to be Green Belt trained by end of FY07.

How well does this look on a civilian resume?
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About as good as already having a Secret clearance. All the big companies and a lot of small ones have programs. We don't have many black belts but are required to have a certain number of green belts to look good on bids for defense projects. A company the size of Raytheon took about two years to reach 100%. Our aircraft company in Witchita was the last to reach the goal and they were under constant harrassment until they got there.

There is an industry now of online companies and universities offering training courses for people who are considering a job in a company that are heavy into six sigma.
 
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So if I get my chance, I should get my Black Belt? I assume that it will make the $$$ a little better.
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I would think so since they warned us at the beginning of the program that finishing the course and project would directly affect our raises that year.
 
In Hong Kong for a lot of the management positions they won't even talk to you unless you have some sort of Six Sigma quals. It definitely does NOT hurt.
 
Thanks to this thread I was able to give a decent reply to a client of ours requesting information on this subject... :)
 
Donkey said:
I have a feeling it has it's ups and downs but in the long run may be detrimental for it will cause more juking of stats...
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If you're juking the stats, you're not doing Six Sigma.

MAJ: in the civilian side, sir, black belts are considered to be full-time Six Sigma experts -- in other words, all you do is provide Six Sigma consulting services within the company -- whereas if you're a green belt, you're managing day-to-day operations and projects and utilizing six sigma as part of your toolset.
 
The idea is to work the methods into how everyone does their job every day so that it becomes second nature to apply your Six Sigma training to every program you are teamed on. It's up to black belts to study and incorporate changes, or evolution, of Six Sigma programs from other companies, what works and what doesn't. The green belts are in charge of keeping specialists up to date and giving advice such as evaluating an idea to see if it merits incorporation. They have an interactive website on our intranet for day to day contact with the troops.
 
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