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Lean Six Sigma is the application of lean techniques to increase organizational speed, while combining the tools and culture of Six Sigma to improve efficiencies and focus on customers’ issues. The principles of Lean Six Sigma are to initially work on causes of customer critical-to-quality issues and those that create the longest lead-time delays in any process. Eliminating those causes provides the greatest opportunity for improvement in cost, quality, capital, and lead-time.

Affiliations
At VPMEP, teamwork is central to our ability to deliver a wide range of performance improvement services. No other service organization is better adept at delivering new methodologies and improvement processes like VPMEP. We are able to accomplish this through combining our skills and capabilities with those of strategic partners. One of our strategic partners is the George Group. They are leaders in Lean Six Sigma training, implementation, and whose focus is an unrelenting pursuit of increased shareholder value for their clients.

Training
George Group's Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training is the culmination of over 17 years of knowledge in deep-skilled performance improvement. Black Belts are required to complete a project during training, allowing them to build skills and deliver value simultaneously. Training is relevant to manufacturing and service environments with case studies and exercises applicable to both. Each participant who successfully completes the requirements for the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification will receive a certificate endorsed jointly by the George Group and VPMEP in collaboration with Virginia Tech.

Capabilities
When you think of Six Sigma - quality, lean speed, achieving stretch goals, improving shareholder value - you should also think of VPMEP, the leaders in achieving lean speed and Six Sigma quality in Virginia. We have experienced lean and Six Sigma implementers ready to provide your organization with the most powerful capabilities designed to improve quality and speed up your processes. We also have the capability to train on-site or through our public offerings.

Champion Training
Learn to combine lean speed with Six Sigma quality and variation reduction from the largest lean Six Sigma consulting practice in the U.S. Discover how top management’s vision/strategy is turned into bottom-line results. Receive necessary information to successfully lead a lean Six Sigma business initiative. Learn the important methods for project selection. Don’t just learn lean Six Sigma and its methods, experience it through our activity based simulation and training. Learn the key role of champion and methods for selecting, supporting, guiding, and managing projects and black belts. Highlights include project selection and identification, project definition and scooping, "gate" reviews and checklists, and team launches. Lean Six Sigma provides a methodology for systematically reducing rather than hiding the overhead and cost of poor quality, and prioritizes efforts around creating shareholder value. If the shareholder is happy, everyone is happy since the shareholder gets paid last. For information on future Champion Training schedules and pricing, please contact Natalie Breault at 540.722.3405 ext. 5 or email nbreault@vpmep.org.

Black Belt
VPMEP has the capability to boost your organization’s performance by assisting you in combining lean speed with Six Sigma quality. Utilizing the George Group’s material and techniques, VPMEP can deliver Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training in 20 contact days to your personnel. The curriculum includes all the key tools and skills needed to get fast, sustainable project results. The action learning approach incorporates simulations, examples, team exercises, and case studies taken from real world problems faced by real companies. Learn Minitab through hands-on exercises. Receive Virtual Coach, which puts all course materials in a handy reference and training tool for black belts. Exercises, case studies, notes, and forms are easily accessed. Slides can be easily downloaded to PowerPoint to create presentations and to train others. To ensure competency and understanding, Black Belt participants are expected to demonstrate abilities through in-class evaluations, exercises, exams, teach backs, and a completed project. Highlights include DMAIC, project definition, control charts, capability analysis, value stream and process mapping, measurement system analysis, regression, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, DOE, FMEA, mistake proofing, cycle time reduction, analytical batch sizing, 5S, pull systems, TPM, Quick Changeover, process flow and balancing, and much more. In addition, VPMEP has personnel support when you need help with your projects.

Green Belt
Learn to combine lean speed with Six Sigma quality and variation reduction from the largest and most experienced consulting practice in the U.S. – the George Group. This unique 10-day Green Belt Program by the George Group is the culmination of over 15 years of conducting performance improvement across a multitude of manufacturing and service industries. The curriculum includes all the key tools and skills needed to get fast, sustainable project results. Green Belts are taught tools to be effective team members, to lead projects or solve problems that are usually smaller in scope than Black Belt projects. The action learning approach incorporates simulations, examples, team exercises, and case studies taken from real world problems faced by real companies. To ensure competency and understanding, Green Belt participants are expected to demonstrate abilities through in-class evaluations, exercises, exams, and a completed project. Highlights include DMAIC, project definition, control charts, capability analysis, value stream and process mapping, measurement system analysis, basic tools, team launches, mistake proofing, FMEA, cycle time reduction, kaizen, 5S, Quick Changeover, process flow, and much more.

Certification
VPMEP, in collaboration with Virginia Tech’s Continuing and Professional Education Group (VT-CPE) and Center for High Performance Manufacturing (CHPM) is pleased to offer Continuing Education Unit (CEU) based certification for successful completion of Green Belt or Black Belt programs.

Advanced Offerings
VPMEP has Virginia’s most extensive line of advanced offerings in lean techniques and Six Sigma tools. These high impact workshops provide energetic, hands-on, in depth instruction for directly applying Lean Six Sigma methods to rapidly improve processes in a sustainable manner.

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The Lean Six Sigma courses are being offered in partnership with George Group and VPMEP in collaboration with Virginia Tech.

 
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