Design for Lean Six Sigma (DFLSS) is a powerful methodology for ensuring the quality and reliability of new product and process designs that exceed current market maturity levels or break into entirely new markets. Also known as Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), it can be applied across many environments.
This course focuses on product design and manufacturing or any process that produces a tangible product, including mining, refining, chemical and polymer processing, and energy production. (For a focus in other environments, such as services, financial, healthcare, research, business model and startups, we recommend our Innovation and Design Tools course.)
The Design for Lean Six Sigma course applies the popular DMADV (Define-Measure-Analyze-Design-Verify) methodology used by practitioners around the world. Beyond traditional DFLSS approaches, we emphasize the often-missing element of front-end innovation to truly understand customer needs and how to translate those needs into design parameters. Participants also learn how to apply Lean thinking to new product design and development processes, enabling your organization to generate optimal designs at a rapid pace and stay ahead of the market.
Design is a truly cross-functional undertaking, not the sole responsibility of the product development function. While statistical design tools are an integral part of this course, the importance of defining and translating customer needs, financial and risk analysis, Lean manufacturing and assembly techniques, maintainability and sustainability are also emphasized.
You’ll learn about the details of DFLSS in a focused workshop environment—complete with interactive lectures, group exercises and individualized mentoring on real, problematic data sets and projects that you bring to class. Additionally, the instructor will tailor content and examples to the composition of each class.
