Six Sigma Certification in Bangalore

[sevensteps1-blog]

https://www.sevenstepsglobal.com/lean-in-hospitals-healthcare-services/ Implementation of Lean in hospitals is the way to achieve higher success by delivering quality service at a remarkably reduced cost and with a world-class work culture. 

[sevensteps1-blog]

Evaluation of lean | Phases of Lean Transformation

Lean is a way of thinking. It is a journey that is never over. It is a system framed in a collection of rules and principles. Some of the following 10 criteria may be more important than others to consider at the different phases of lean transformation

[sevensteps1-blog]

Bulletproof your career with Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies

There used to be a time when certain jobs are considered as dream jobs and highly respected such as Telecom new connections and ticketing clerk in a reservation counter, teller in banks. These were all niche jobs and posts. What happened to those jobs?  Are they still in demand or the demand has reduced?  Many of those who did not want further learning or skill enhancement were left behind as clerks with same pay or lost their jobs.

Similar things happen in many industries where the job role becomes obsolete.  Many people declare their experience in their resume.  If some has learned a job in one year and got mastery over it and continued in the same job for 25 years, it does not mean that he has 25 years experience.  It is equivalent of one-year experience only. This implies that if within two years, if they do not eliminate their job and move on with a new job profile or new field, the person is bound to be outdated.   There is a wide difference between “being efficient” and “being effective”. As the old thought says, efficiency is climbing the wall faster. Effectiveness means, finding the right wall and climbing fast.  As per Toyota production system or Lean Manufacturing methods, a tortoise can be more effective than a rabbit in covering distance faster.

Contrary to the old way of thinking of highly skilled in one job and zero skill in other job, Toyota way of thinking calls for multiskilling and inherent abilities.  Higher job roles also needs knowledge in multiple domains and functions.  For example if some one joins Quality department in early career, they are expected to learn Lean manufacturing methodologies also which support Quality. They cannot say that my job is in Quality department and why should I handle production related problems. In the same way, if some one in production department should also know problem solving skills, 7 QC tools, process capability, Six Sigma methodologies.

In automotive sector, a traditional welder is replaced by a high performance Robot which also means de-skilling the job elements. If the welder feels that he wants only welding job and does not learn any further or jumps to another job where welding is manual operation, he is struck as welder in his full lifetime.  Welder should upgrade his skill further to next higher level of ability to programme the robot or becoming a Lean planner who can improve material flow through Value Stream improvements. That way, he can be upgraded to a better job profile. It is high time people understand the need for their skills relevant in constantly changing market requirements.

There is a recent threat in Automotive industry for converting petrol, diesel vehicles to electric or hybrid vehicles.  This again calls for adapting and reskilling of people across the functions to be ready to embrace drastic change in their product portfolio. Everyone should be in a position to leave the old technologies and adapt newer technologies.  Continuous learning culture will enable every one to learn every day.

Those organizations who embraced and consistently implemented concepts such as 5S, Lean manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance and Total Quality Management and Six Sigma in their current working culture have demonstrated the ability to learn any thing new and move on.  This also helps in improving attitude, respect for people which also helps in adapting their jobs in any new upcoming industries and sectors.  If one is specialized in automotive in the past, they can easily move to Aerospace industry or food industry.  If some one is experience in the past with mass production or high volume production, they will know how to adapt themselves with high mix and low volume production.  They will be more adaptable to change due to their confidence in handling any situation and due to having knowledge of key principles of Lean manufacturing.

Seven Steps Academy of Excellence is helping individuals and organisations in skill development through various training modules and courses such as Applied 5S training, Six Sigma Green Belt Training, Six Sigma Black Belt Training, Problem Solving Tools and Techniques, Policy Deployment , Daily Work Management Systems, Kanban supermarkets.

We can support organisations in skill development of their employees through inhouse training programmes and customizing to the needs of the specific industry.

As part of college to corporate initiative, Seven Steps Academy of Excellence also offers specialized skill development programmes to Students to improve their employability through finishing school.

Seven Steps Academy is one of the best training centers to get trained in Lean and Six Sigma. The faculties are really knowledgeable, and they make you learn with their experiences. Myself after completing the training decided to work in this domain in future. They also give tips on how to pass the exam from ASQ. if you want to become a complete Lean Six Sigma professional, do the course from ASQ and Seven Steps Academy and pass the exam and get certified.

- Deepak K S

Seven Steps Academy in association with Karnataka German Technical Training Institute Bangalore (KGTTI- A Govt. of Karnataka initiative) offering this unique program and all the practical sessions of the same will be conducted at the state of the art facility of KGTTI Bangalore campus.

After successful completion of the program deserving candidates will get immediate placement as Trainee Engineer in a precision manufacturing industry.

Automobile Engineering

Course Duration : 8 Weeks (320 Hrs)

Eligibility:

Career Opportunity in Fresh B.E / B Tech in Mechanical / Production

Design, Planning, Sourcing, Production,Quality, Maintenance, Sales & Service etc.

Industry Segments

Automotive, Aerospace, General Engineering,

Energy, Defence, Electronics, Machine &Cutting Tools, Mining & Construction

Equipment and Tooling Industry etc.

College to Corporate

Increased rate of corporate placements.

Satisfied students and parents.

Cut above the rest and create a benchmark above other colleges.

Contribution to society by producing high performing human resources.

Benefits to the Academic Institution

Course Curriculum in Brief

Precision Manufacturing Industry-an overview

Corporate culture- basic etiquettes and expectations

Behavioural and Leadership Skills

Introduction to Engineering Drawing

Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing

Various Manufacturing Process

Basics of Metal Cutting

Machine Tools- Cutting Tools- Fluids

Introduction to CNC machines

CNC Operation & Programming

Process Planning & Control

Cost Estimation, Time Calculation

Metrology and Measurements

Heat treatment & Surface Treatment

QA & QC and Quality Practices

Introduction to 5S, KAIZEN, Lean, Six Sigma methodologies

For your requirements of skill development and inhouse training programmes, please get in touch with us.

Seven Steps  Academy of Excellence is Learning and Development arm of Seven Steps Group ( A business excellence focussed organization) dedicated to Research, Training and Development in the area of Leadership, Quality and Business Excellence. Academy offers around 15certification programs and more than 100 experiential learning modules in the areas of Lean, TPM,TOC, TQM , Quality Management Systemsand Six Sigma. It also provides Industry specific and approved  training programmes for Engineering, Automotive, Retail, Aerospace, Healthcare, Hospitality, IT and Process Industries.

[sevensteps1-blog]

Bulletproof your career with Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies - SEVEN STEPS ACADEMY

There used to be a time when certain jobs are considered as dream jobs and highly respected such as Telecom new connections and ticketing clerk in a reservation counter, teller in banks. These were all niche jobs and posts. What happened to those jobs? Are they still in demand or the demand has reduced? Many of those who did not want further learning or skill enhancement were left behind as clerks with same pay or lost their jobs.

There used to be a time when certain jobs are considered as dream jobs and highly respected such as Telecom new connections and ticketing clerk in a reservation counter, teller in banks. These were all niche jobs and posts. What happened to those jobs?  Are they still in demand or the demand has reduced?  Many of those who did not want further learning or skill enhancement were left behind as clerks with same pay or lost their jobs.

[sevensteps1-blog]

How Lean Manufacturing will help to improve Productivity

Lean is the term which has core philosophy of doing more and more with less and less.  Lean System can also be referred as FIT without Fat. Origin of Lean is from Manufacturing set up in Japan which had always valued its scare resources which is primarily space. Thought process on working with less space happened when Taiichi Ohno, the then shop-floor supervisor of engine manufacturing plant went to his boss and asked for more space to store inventory.  Having already reeling under less resources of money and space, Taiichi Ohno was asked to explore how the inventory can be reduced so that it needs less space. This thought has triggered a big revolution in the manufacturing arena in the form of Toyota production System which is popularly known as Lean manufacturing.

Unlike mass production where economics of scale, low variety and high volume were the norm. Japanese companies had to be managed with very low volume and high mix production capabilities in their early years of establishing.

Increase in production is possible through productivity improvement.  For this, Lean manufacturing works in increasing value and reducing waste.  In non-lean environment, Value addition of any activity in a value stream – Customer order to delivery will be less than 5%.  Value is considered under the following conditions.

Change of shape,

Change of Size

Change of properties

Any thing else the customer is willing pay.

Even in the above condition, minimizing waste is one of the focus area to improve productivity. From the lean perspective, waste is anything which does not add Value.  This will be typically 95% of the time which is shocking but reality in most non-lean companies. This is due to result of having the following conditions.

Overproduction :

Inventory:

Overprocessing:

Defects:

Transportation:

Motion:

Producing before the time of need or more quantity than desired for next operation (both internal and external customer) to consume. One of the common reasons for overproduction is due to perceived notion of the need for high batch quantity where change-over for product A to product B is more.

Keeping RM, WIP or Finished goods more than the required quantity or getting before the required time.  One of the common for excess inventory is also due to overproduction.

Doing an activity more than needed or higher than what the customer is willing to pay.

Not doing things first time right.  This results in re-work and eventually rejected if not handled well.  Defect increases the cost of poor quality.

Movement of materials from one station to the other station. This increases the time for value addition and does not help in continuous flow.

Where operators are needed to move from one station to other during which there is no value addition takes place.  This could be due to lack of ergonomic workstations and effective storage of essential tools and materials.

Lean manufacturing addresses the above issues through its time tested Way of thinking  also called Lean Thinking. Some of the lean solution for above issues of waste is by thorough elimination. When there is no waste, rest is value addition.  Value addition leads to improved productivity.

To avoid overproduction, Lean thinking has solution in the form of applying Pull System as against push system followed in tradition manufacturing. The pull System calls for one station pulling material from the previous station with defined set of rules.  A work station can produce only what its immediate customer can consume .. i.e. Can process further. Such system can be seen in Lean food chain such as Mc Donald’s where they produce only against order or keep very small quantity FG where they are certain that those which are produced by them will get consumed in matter of minutes.

In order to minimize costs associated with inventory, lean companies focus on Just in time procurement and usage of Kanban based inventory management for all runner product raw materials.  Also, ordering is done in such a way that right quantity, right mix is made available when it is needed. Supplier development is one of the concepts which is widely used for collective growth. Milk run, Vendor managed inventory, Jumbiki are some of the other concepts used by Lean companies.

In order to minimize the over processing, various point kaizens are introduced at the work place which is also called Gemba.

Defects prevention is worked out through poka-yoke or mistake proofing, skill development through TWI – Training within Industry concepts.  Elimination of overproduction also helps in reduction of defects.

Transportation is reduced through introduction of concepts such as Cellular Manufacturing, continuous flow, lean layouts and single piece flow.  High amounts of discipline, standard operating procedures are to be followed to make the systems successful.

Motion waste is minimized through effective application of Applied 5S, Visual Management and point of use storage. Ergonomic workstations also help in minimizing the waste of motion. Low cost automation and point kaizen further improve the value addition thereby reduction of motion waste.

In order to get full benefits in realizing no waste ideal, there are many culture factors which are to be aligned through Total Employee involvement or TEI.  There are many other complimenting methodologies such as structured TPM – Total Productive Maintenance methodologies are needed to be deployed to make improvement in productivity through effective machine availability and machine performance.

Seven Steps Business Transformation Systems is helping organisations in their quest for improving productivity through their unique methodologies. We use combination of TPM, TQM, Lean, Six Sigma and TOC concepts apart from soft skills, change management, top management involvement and bottom-up team support. Setting Long term Vision and Strategies to achieve the same

Setting up right organization structure with clear roles and responsibilities

Improvement of Sales

Facilitation in improving On time Deliveries

Facilitation in implementation of Visual Workplace

Reduction of Defects (Cost of poor quality)

Reduction of Manufacturing Lead time

Improved and measurable Teamwork.

Improved responsiveness to customers.

Effective utilization of machines with minimal down time.

Optimize inventory

Release space/ capacity for future expansion.

Improve Morale of employees

Release Quality time of Top management to focus on growth and long-term objectives.

End results of implementation of Excellence initiatives are:

Improved productivity

Improvement in MTBF and MTTR.

Improved Delivery Performance.

Reduced cost of poor Quality

Improved involvement of people across all levels.

Reduction in customer complaints

Improved responsiveness to the customer

Improved business

Improved profits.

In case you are looking for expert guidance to support your organisation, we will be glad to associate with your company.

We have following expertise in the form of

Lean manufacturing consultants

TPM Consultants

TQM Consultants

TOC Consultants

Six Sigma Consultants

Get in touch with us today.

[sevensteps1-blog]

Seven Steps Global is one of the top management consulting firms in Bangalore,India bring specialized skills and knowledge to assist companies in making the best possible business decisions. We also provides Kaizen training to professionals to enhance their knowledge.

Seven Steps Global is one of the top management consulting firms in Bangalore,India bring specialized skills and knowledge to assist companies in making the best possible business decisions. We also provides Kaizen training to professionals to enhance their knowledge.