In the recently concluded iSixSigma’s Top 10 Best Places to Work for Six Sigma Professionals, Vought Aircraft Industries ranked second.
This is Vought’s Lean Six Sigma journey in a nutshell:
In just two years, 209 Vought employees have completed the Six Sigma green belt training, with 77 receiving certification. Twenty-three employees went on to become black belts. Projected savings of all black and green belt projects combined exceeds $25 million.
Vought has a long history of applying Lean strategies to its operations. The focus of Lean is to improve the flow and velocity in everything a company does by systematically eliminating waste. The focus of Six Sigma is to improve business by reducing process variation through the use of statistical methods. “These two complementary improvement methodologies, working together, establish the main elements of our Vought Operating System (VOS),” shared Ruben Coronado, Vought’s Six Sigma MBB.
