Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods 16.660 MIT
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his course introduces the fundamental Lean Six Sigma principles that underlay modern continuous improvement approaches for industry, government and other organizations. Lean emerged from the Japanese automotive industry, particularly Toyota, and is focused
on the creation of value through the relentless elimination of waste. Six Sigma is a quality system developed at Motorola which focuses on elimination of variation from all processes. The basic principles have been applied to a wide range of organizations
and sectors to improve quality, productivity, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, time-to-market and financial performance.
Language: English
Professors: Michael Williams
Units: 14
Lesson content
- Ses 1-2 Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods
- Ses 1-3 Dick Lewis guest lecture
- Ses 1-4 Lean thinking
- Ses 1-6 Value stream mapping fundamentals
- Ses 1-7 New Balance(R) plant tour
- Ses 2-1 Lego(R) simulation (covers 2-1, 2-3, and 2-5)
- Ses 2-2 Lean supply chain basics
- Ses 2-4 Lean engineering basics
- Ses 3-2 Variability simulation
- Ses 3-3-1 Quality tools I
- Ses 3-3-2 Quality tools II
- Ses 3-4 Ida Gall guest lecture
- Ses 3-5 People: the heart of Lean
- Ses 3-6 Implementing Lean
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