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|  Lean Six Sigma Black Belt in Denver, August 11
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On-site classes are as low as $5.9K for groups of up to 15.
Check out how you can save thousands of dollars... The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly We are starting a blog on Breakthrough Improvement Thoughts, we call it the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. We invite you to submit your thoughts, favorite Lean Six Sigma tools and case studies. Blog - Why U.S. Airlines Get Failing Marks From Passengers posted on May 20,2008 Customer service and support often dreadful | What is Lean Six Sigma?
Lean Six Sigma is a data-driven process improvement philosophy which focuses upon the elimination of errors in products and service while reducing the inventory and non-value.
The term “Sigma” itself is a measure of variation hence a Six Sigma process results in 3.4 parts per million (PPM) errors, a virtually error-free process. Lean manufacturing, introduced by Toyota, combined with the power of Six Sigma started expanding into all sizes of companies in a great variety of industries and services around the world. | | | | | | | What is DFSS?
Design for Six Sigma is the most empowering tool for new product and process design to ensure that resulting product /process meets Six Sigma goals of virtually defect free.
DFSS could also be used as a result of a Six Sigma project which ended because Six Sigma improvement process was not suitable to overcome fundamental design issues. Many companies today take advantage of DFSS to design new products hence eliminating errors in products and service delivery before customers see them. | | Check out our 2008 schedule for new classes
Please let us know if don't see what you are looking for! Call us for an initial Free consultation. LSI team of experts lead by Dr. T. will show you how you can turn your business around without having to outsource certain functions. LSI has the best value for training and consulting with guaranteed Results! We specialize in Lean Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma, and Quality tools training, consulting and deployment. | | |
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|  | | Whether you are in health care, finance, pharmaceuticals, service, manufacturing, or any other industry, LodeStar will customize training to fit your distinct position on your improvement journey. Our instructors have conducted training and consulting for many companies including Nortel Networks, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Agilent Technologies, Ventana Medical Systems, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical, Quintiles, Wachovia, Solectron, Sara Lee, Johnson & Johnson, Wonderbra, Hanes, Joanne Fabrics, Home Depot, Motorola, BOC Gases, AW, Digital Optics, Woodard, Freudenberg, American Lumber | "We learned to stop the analysis paralyses caldron we always got into, put a stake in the ground and focus on continuous improvement. We now rely on our experts and not decisions by committee. Dr. T. and his team were excellent during the training. Their scheduling flexibility was awesome, they tailored the class to our needs, but as I learned when we finished I fully understood Six Sigma and could apply it any scenario."
Don Winn
Nortel Networks Read more testimonials here
| LSI offers training and Yellow/Green/Black Belt certifications in DFSS, Lean, Six Sigma in addition to quality tools training and its applications, data exploration, Gauge- Measurement system analysis, Design of Experiments (DOE), Statistical process control (SPC), FMEA, Intro to reliability, and more. | Why is Process Improvement Important? Process improvement programs such as Lean and Six Sigma consistently result in increased customer satisfaction, efficiency, and profitability.
Six Sigma projects, on average, return $250,000 to the bottom line and a Six Sigma black belt can complete as many as four projects per year! | | LodeStar Institute (LSI) is a recognized leader in Six Sigma, Lean Sigma, business process improvement and redesign or re-engineer by converting significant new data-based methodologies into widely accessible, high performance training and solutions. Do you want to increase your customer satisfactions and reduce your defect rate in your business, services and products? Then let the dedicated LSI team of experts help you get to near perfection and turn your processes into sustainable profit. |  | | | Remember
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