Cycle Time
A Key Metric for Profitable Business and Happy Customers. A very important concept when we are working on process improvements.
What is the first question you ask as a customer when you order a product or service?
It’s “How long it will take?”
If a business cannot answer this question and deliver on promised t...
Sure shot Methodology for Business Success
Using deceptively simple and incredibly powerful lean principles
Service operations comprise more than 70% of the world GDP and growing rapidly. Even within manufacturing companies, it’s common to have only 20% of product prices driven by direct manufacturing labor—the oth...
World-Class Performance – Is it Achievable?
World-class performance, very common phrase indeed, used often, we think we understand its meaning and nothing is intriguing about it.
But I Disagree, in my opinion, World-class performance is such a common word used on every marketing material, I think it’s often misquoted and not unde...
#Up-Skill with Janam Sandhu
Proving Value to Customer – Using Lean to create effective and efficient processes.
If your company is on the path of lean transformation and the goal is to create effective and efficient processes that help in retaining your customer base but also attain new customers or you are just starting and want to ge...
A Lean concept – Productive Agenda-Less Meetings
It would be better to have a brief understanding of KANBAN CARDS before starting with the concept of Lean Coffee.
Kanban Cards: Since the article is about lean coffee, I won’t be plunging in detail. KANBAN was developed by Taiichi Ohno (an industrial engineer) at TOYOTA to improve manufacturing Pro...
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One common 'phenomenon' I observe as quality management expert is a one-liner "we want to Grow" if I meet 100 managers, 92 of them set forth "GROWTH" as their first requirement.
Obviously, as part of my job, it is on me to understand what exactly they mean by growth. Usually, it boils down to
How to Build an Organization-Wide Mindset for Continuous Improvement through Lean Six Sigma?
My manager suggested me not to say “Best Practices” because there are no best ways to perform any task.
Everything around us has a room for improvement only if we are open to accept and implement changes. Fear ...
Operational fluctuations are common in manufacturing units; Production processes may be faster or sluggish; Machines may work faster or slower, or may face a complete breakdown; Suppliers may send materials earlier or late in more or less quantity; Workforce ready to produce on day-one, might need more training, or sick at home; Customers may also behave randomly by ordering more or fewer units...
The Lean Six Sigma is a structured and data-driven problem-solving approach that quality leads, project managers, and other professionals use to resolve business problems. The DMAIC (D = Define; M = Measure; A = Analyze; I = Improve; C = Control) process is, however, a subset within the Lean Six Sigma concept. The methodology has evolved from the manufacturing industry...
Six Sigma is a logically structured approach that enables continuous improvement of business processes with low defects.
To overcome the challenges of quality improvement and business efficiencies, managers must identify and implement the relevant tools, like Six Sigma, to evaluate and manage their operations, more effectively. Six Sigma is a measurement-bas...
Exploring ANDON to Ensure More Smooth Production Processes
The term Andon (“Sign” or “Signal”) was originated from a Japanese word – “chouchin” or “Chochin” – that is used for traditional Paper Lantern. In the context of manufacturing, Andon refers to a status-display station and is one of the most common vis...
Mura causes unevenness in allocating the workload for a production process, wherein a chain of linked events depend on one another. Organizations must ensure to allocate every process constituent with manageable tasks without causing bottlenecks down the line. The primary aim is to avoid delegating excessive work.
Understanding Mura’s Impact on an Organization
Eliminating Process Inconsistencies Enable Operations to Perform Consistently
The universal misconception is, to improve output, you need to work faster. Lean, along with various other methodologies – such as Scrum or Agile Principles, support sustaining a consistent pace of work.
Lean Six-Sigma experts, like Janam Sandhu, recommend working like a Tor...
Deep Dive into Inventory Management Concepts for the Service Industry
The concept of inventory and its management in the service industry is quite complicated to explain and can vary, depending on the context. Inventory in a service domain is different from what it is in the manufacturing sector. Inventory in the service domain is intangible and can be understood easi...
Let’s Get Familiar with Lean Six-Sigma
This blog discusses some interesting historical facts about the Six-Sigma and also highlights the benefits of the most business-friendly Lean Six-Sigma concepts.
Sig-Sigma comprises techniques and tools that organizations use to identify and eliminate operational defects, to improve orga...
Are You Lean Six-Sigma Ready?
The global business landscape is transforming to be more customers centric, and modern enterprises are aggressively looking for appropriate strategies to increase their customer engagements. To attain this effectively, business leaders first need to identify the weak-links across their business functionalities. The primary questio...
Be a Lean Six-Sigma Certified and Kick-Start your Career Aspirations
Modern businesses are transforming. They are consistently improvising their operations to minimize unknown operational wastages to ensure the desired business gains. To eliminate any process waste, organizations need to understand and implement relevant Lean Six-Sigma concepts effectively into the bu...
Six-Sigma has almost become a household statement for modern businesses around the globe. Six-Sigma methodologies and tools enable organizations to serve the diverse customer bases across different parts of the world through a host of benefits, as per the objective of usage.
The Greek Inspiration
Sigma (σ) is a Greek letter used by statisticians to rep...
Six Sigma in Hindi – The First and The Best
This highly disruptive business environment is pushing global enterprises to always having a precise understanding of the modern, quality vigilant consumers. Organizations are, therefore, looking for talent that is equipped thoroughly with knowledge of industry-relevant and business-supportive quality parameters. There...
Cause and effect diagram (CED)
It is an easy yet powerful graphical tool used for identifying the causes of a problem or effects. It helps to define and analyze the root causes that affect a process which leads to a certain problem.
This diagram was developed by Kaoru Ishikawa, a famous...
In this section, we are going to start with the Problem-Solving Formula in Six Sigma Six Sigma uses statistical analysis and measurement in different ways. The Six Sigma approach to problem-solving helps to determine the crucial inputs (x) and then to formulate an improvement plan (y). Putting it simply we can say that controlling or modifying the inputs will enab...
The Lean and Six Sigma White Belt Course
This course is the starting point of a never-ending journey of Lean Six Sigma journey which is a quality improvement technique useful in improving business processes, products, services, and customer relationship. It is a strategy that focuses on continuous improvement.
Why Lean Six Sigma Whit...
Lean Six Sigma White belt certification is the basic level of certification which introduces the fundamental concepts of Six Sigma. But as part of our course, we will be covering a few additional concepts which are not normally covered under white belt certification to give clarity and to consolidate the understanding of these concepts for later levels of certifications. On completion of this c...
1.5 SIGMA SHIFT
In this post and associated lecture I have taken up 1.5 sigma, this simple concept confuses many specially who are new to six sigma but to cut long story short 1.5 sigma shift is a statistical correction or in simple words a buffer which is created to protect our processes and products from variation which is a constant companion of long-term projects....
Lean Tools – 5S
5S Implementation – Complete Course
STEP – 5 SUSTAIN
In this article and associated video I have covered step 5 of 5S implementation, step five of 5S implementation is called SUSTAIN and SHITSUKE in Japanese.
Since 5S implementation is based on P...
STEP – 4 STANDARDIZE
In this article and associated video I have covered step 4 of 5S implementation, step four of 5S implementation is called STANDARDIZE and SEIKETSU in Japanese.
This step aims at standardizing the a...
STEP – 3 SHINE
In this article and associated video I have covered step 3 of 5S implementation, step three of 5S implementation is called Shine and Seiso in Japanese.
This step focuses on deep cleaning and minor repair...
STEP – 2 SET IN ORDER
In this article and associated video I have covered step 2 of 5S implementation, step two of 5S implementation is called Set in order and Seiton in Japanese.
Aim of this step is to organize and arrange each and every item of the workplace i.e eac...
STEP – 1 SORT
In this article and associated video I have covered step 1 of 5S implementation, step one of 5S implementation is called Sort and Seiri in Japanese.
Aim of this step to separate necessary items from unnec...
This time I decided to launch a course on a lean tool, actually this is first tool used in lean implementation and name of this tool is 5S, it’s the foundation stone of Lean Implementation.
5S was developed in Japan to improve workplace efficiency, it is highly...
What is Six Sigma?
When I say “what is Six Sigma”, If you have some understanding of the subject by now the definition which might have flashed and finding voice would be; “It (six sigma) is a management technique which aims to make a product or service defect free and brings down defects to 3.4 defects per million opportunities and this is done...
Hi everyone so here i am with the second tool of the series “six sigma tools” and it is 5W2H method, beauty of this tool is it application is rather simple compared to common perception about six sigma methodology in general.
5W2H method also known as 5 why’s and 2 h’s and Why Tree is an idea generating...
Decision making is an essential part of any project and managers, team leaders, process owners and business owners often find themselves in a position where they have to take critical decisions and business decisions means lot is at stake in terms of finances and resources so intuition based decision making should be avoided, right way to take decisions is to back them with a p...
Hello World, this is Janam Sandhu (Six Sigma Coach by Profession) and this is my initiative to get a more interactive platform where we can discuss six sigma.
In this blog i would be discussing about various six sigma tools and their application and would be posting video lectures on YouTube (on same topic).
This is all for now and below i am leaving links to my video lectur...
Janam Sandhu (Six Sigma and Management Guru) is here to teach you Lean and Six sigma in an easy to understand format and I assure you if you follow my videos and blogs you will be able to understand and implement these techniques with ease.
When I look at the six sigma and lean I feel they are such easy and wonderful techniques which have been developed to help you carry your business in simple and efficient manner but when I look at current trends and the way lean and six sigma training being carried out, I feel their only mission is to complicate things.