Six Sigma Advanced Manufacturing

This course is tailored to your specialist requirements for advanced manufacturing. Depending on your needs it can include:

Data Analysis and Presentation

This is about acquiring and visualising the data relevant to your customers and your process. It will include tools for comparing data samples while seeking process improvement including capability analysis against customer specifications. Depending on your prior understanding of the statistics involved it could start from graphical methods, continue to the basics of inferential statistics and extend to Hypothesis Testing, Anova and Regression.

Measurement Systems Analysis

A practical understanding of Measurement Systems Analysis and how to apply it to instrument measurement systems, manual measurements and even human appraisal judgement. It is quite often true that we have a slightly inflated sense of our own capability in achieving our critical process measurements. And as the old saying goes “If you can’t measure it, you can’t control it”

Process Problem Solving

There are two broad fields of problem solving: a number of additive and contributory causes, only one true cause among many possibles. These two cases require very different approaches and start with the simplest team based tools such as Cause and Effect Analysis and The Five Whys and progress to Analytical Root Cause Analysis for complex systems investigation. These tools can stand alone or they can be fitted to the problem identification and resolution step of your existing Defect Elimination strategy such as 8D or A4.

Design of Experiments

Design of Experiments provides a highly effective and a resource efficient strategy to model a complex process leading to a clear understanding of its main control factors and their optimisation. There are many different orthogonal designs to choose from. This will provide a practical guide to their selection, and a practical approach to their use for both an initial screening experiment and a full modelling experiment.

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