Upcoming Lean, Six Sigma Conferences

GoingToMeet.com has lined up upcoming Lean, Six Sigma conferences that you shouldn’t miss:

11th Annual Lean & Six Sigma Summit 2008
Jun 02, 2008 -Jun 05, 2008
Sydney, New South Wales Australia

2nd Annual Lean Six Sigma for Electronics
Jun 05, 2008 - Jun 06, 2008
San Jose, California United States

3nd Annual Middle East Six Sigma Summit
Jun 22, 2008 - Jun 25, 2008
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Lean Six Sigma for Defense-San Diego
Jun 23, 2008 - Jun 25, 2008
The Estin Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, California United States

9th Annual Asian Six Sigma Summit 2008
Jun 24, 2008 - Jun 25, 2008
Singapore

4th Annual Lean Six Sigma Improvement Week 2008
Sep 15, 2008 - Sep 18, 2008
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois United States

WCBF’s Global Six Sigma Summit
Oct 07, 2008 - Oct 10, 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada United States

ASQ Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Oct 12, 2008 - Oct 16, 2008
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Check out the conferences and Register now!

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Lean/Six Sigma Upcoming Events

Just like your processes, you also need to beef up your skills, continue learning every step of the way. Here are upcoming Six Sigma events that will be useful for you as a Six Sigma practitioner.

For more events, check out GoingToMeet.com!

Filed under: Lean Six Sigma, Events/Announcements, Six Sigma

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Upcoming Six Sigma Events

In my previous post, I featured a local forum where people can check out. For those outside the country, GoingToMeet.com has listed some upcoming Six Sigma events, which you may want to check out.

Filed under: Events/Announcements, Six Sigma

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Human Sigma: The Heart and Soul of Employee-Customer Relations

For those of you here in Metro Manila, here’s some good news.

Deming Management Systems(R), a division of Kairos Management Technologies, is bringing you the management benchmarking forum on Human Sigma: The Heart and Soul of Employee-Customer Relations.

Below are the complete details.

February 21, 2008, 1:00pm, Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City

Designed for corporate managers in human resources, marketing, sales, total quality, and customer relations, this forum introduces the participants to proven methods of using employee-customer interaction as one strategic measure to drive financial performance.

LINE-UP OF RESOURCE SPEAKERS

Theoretical Framework: Prof. Nenette Barrios, Professorial Lecturer, De La Salle - Professional Schools

Best Practice 1: Mr. Reuben San Jose Pangan, Vice President, Customer Relations, Sun Cellular

Best Practice 2: Mr. Florendo G. Maranam, Vice President, Human Resources, Bank of P.I.

Best Practice 3: Mr. Emmanuel A. Aligada, Head for Customer Relations, Globe Telecom

Best Practice 4: Ms. Cristina Fe N. Arevalo, Vice President, Human Resources, Toyota Motor

REGISTRATION RATE POLICY

Investment is P5,000/person to cover the cost of participation, snack, training kit, and certificate of participation. A special P4,000 rate is extended to all participants who are currently based in Visayas and Mindanao.

Participants are entitled to get a free copy of the 305-page book – “The Buzzword-Centric Workplace” written by Reylito A. H. Elbo, business columnist of Business World and Manila Times. This special edition of management buzzwords is not available in popular bookstores.
No difficult registration forms to fill-up. To register, simply send an e-mail with the subject line “HUMAN SIGMA”to kairoshq@info.com.ph with the participant’s information:

1. Name you want to appear in the registration and certificate
2. Nickname (for the name tag)
3. Job title
4. Company
5. Address
6. Industry class
7. Contact person
8. Telephone
9. Fax number
10. Mobile phone of contact person in case of emergency announcements

As soon as we receive your registration, a billing statement will be sent to the contact person. All payments should be made via bank deposit in favor of Kairos Management Technologies, Union Bank C/A 00126-000339-8.

For an on-the-spot decision, group discount, or further details, please call/send SMS to:

REYLITO A. H. ELBO, FPM, CESO
Chief Strategist and Convenor
Kairos Management Technologies
5/F Builders Center, 170 Salcedo Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City 1223
Tel. 822-6660, 751-6730 Fax. 823-3532 Mobile 0919-808-7023 or 0915-406-3039

Filed under: Human Resource, Events/Announcements, Human Sigma

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Santa Claus Uses Six Sigma for the Christmas Rush

It’s that time of year again when Santa Claus, the famous CEO of Polar Enterprises, Inc., is on top of what he likes doing best: producing toys and giving them to every child in the world.

With a worldwide customer base, which is increasing by the second, you would wonder how Santa does it without a snag.

I stumbled upon an interesting interview with Santa Claus by e-Zsigma newsletter’s Six Sigma Spotlight. Below are the highlights of the interview:

1. Incorporating Six Sigma with Lean Manufacturing, and leveraging Senior Santa’s Helpers (aka Black Belts), toy production efficiencies at Santa’s company were up by 5%.
2. Deployment and practice of Six Sigma - the entire system of toy production is dynamic and so they used modeling and experimental design and ended up with an optimized routing and delivery process. This has saved us a considerable amount of time… “I am home quicker for Mrs. Claus, and I even get to stop for my favorite post-delivery beverage… A Grandé Hot Chocolate at Starbucks… with lots of whipped cream!”
3. Despite the magnitude of toy deliveries that needed to be done, at Santa’s Workshop, the so-called “last minute” rush is nonexistent. “Our deployment strategy for Six Sigma included a comprehensive assessment of our core business processes, using such tools as SIPOC, Process and Value Stream Mapping, Root Cause Analysis, and much more to identify the key processes and more importantly, the key variables affecting the capabilities and outcomes of each of these processes. Statistical analysis played an important role at the task level of the processes, so we could really analyze variation and capability. We then tied the outputs of these processes directly to our 6 billion plus customers, and using something I think they called Quality Function Deployment and House of Quality, we were able to align and quantify all of what we were doing with those outputs or deliverables. Our Senior Santa’s Helpers were trained in basic as well as advanced tools, including statistics, and were assigned specific projects aligned with our deployment and business strategy that would maximize the benefits to operations and solve many of the recurring problems we had been struggling with.”

Click here to read the interview.

*Photo from MorgueFile

Filed under: Manufacturing, Services, Lean Six Sigma, Events/Announcements, Six Sigma, Christmas

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Congratulations ATMI, Inc., the Best Achievement Award of Design for Six Sigma and Innovation

ATMI, Inc. manufactures point-of-use environmental equipment, thin film materials and delivery systems, and thin film deposition services to the semiconductor industry.

In the recently concluded The Global Six Sigma Summit and Industry Awards in Las Vegas, ATMI bagged the Best Achievement Award of Design for Six Sigma and Innovation.

This is their story:

“ATMI began Six Sigma knowledge-based management work in 2000, applying the techniques broadly in our operations, as well as in our new product development initiatives. While the ultimate validation is through success with customers and the growth of our business, we are very happy to have our innovative approach to Six Sigma deployment independently validated, as it is a key contributor to continued growth,” said Doug Neugold, Chief Executive Officer.

“This award is based upon our documenting how the tools and methodologies were used to design, develop, and commercialize our RegenSi(tm), AutoClean(tm), and Newmix(r) process efficiency solutions, each of which has the potential to save our customers many millions of dollars by bringing yield, cost, and throughput improvements to their processes,” said Tim Carlson, Chief Financial Officer. “Since inception, we’ve completed over 80 internal projects generating more than $20 million of savings for ATMI.” Continue reading…

Congratulations, ATMI!

Click here for the other winners.

For Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma upcoming events, check out GoingToMeet!

Filed under: Manufacturing, Awards, Events/Announcements, DFSS, Six Sigma

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5 Keys To Accelerate Six Sigma ROI - A Free Webcast

Take advantage of this free webcast from PowerSteering, which was shared to all iSixSigma readers.

The webcast set on November 8 will help you find ways to achieve a better financial return from your Six Sigma deployment by

1. driving better project selection

2. improving dashboard visibility

3. shifting reporting into the fast lane

4. steering project execution forward

5. getting more mileage out of past projects

Register now!

*Photo from Stock.Xchng

Filed under: Benefits and Savings, Software/Technology, Deployment, Six Sigma References, Events/Announcements, PowerSteering

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Lean Kaizen Update

Lean Kaizen Bootcamp

When: Oct 1 - 5, 2007
Where: Lean Learning Center, Novi, MI
Phone: 248-478-1480.

What: A powerful program for generating the results you need learned through a real kaizen experience. At the end of this class, participants will have the understanding and tools necessary to plan, facilitate, and lead Kaizen workshops on their own. Key benefits of attending the program include learning to make rapid and dramatic performance improvements to any process; learning to build effective teams; learning tools that can be used in both administrative and shop-floor processes; and learning to generate savings that can be used to fund long-term transformation efforts.

Register now!

You may also want to check this book out:

Lean Kaizen: A Simplified Approach to Process Improvements

For more conference updates, visit GoingToMeet.com.

Filed under: Training, Team Dynamics, Events/Announcements, Kaizen, Lean

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Six Sigma and Innovation

There’s still much controversy about Six Sigma and innovation. Many companies, 3M being the most vocal and probably popular, are saying that Six Sigma and innovation counters each other out.

3M, which has been the most innovative company for years, allegedly stopped innovating when it adopted Six Sigma. I still could not fathom the reason for not being able to mix successfully Six Sigma and innovation.

Perhaps, those companies that have successfully implemented Six Sigma and and pursued innovation should speak up to end this debate once and for all.

The best venue for this kind of forum is IQPC’s Process for Innovation event on August 21-22, 2007 in The Gleacher Center, Chicago. The event will tackle this question and offers a structure for Innovation. This exclusive forum has been designed for leading Six Sigma and Innovation experts to discuss the practicalities of implementing Innovation across an organization alongside Six Sigma.

Check out the event and share with us what you have learned.

Related story:
How Six Sigma Improves Innovation

Filed under: Lean Six Sigma, Events/Announcements, Innovation Update, 3M, Innovation

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Six Sigma Movements

Early this month till mid month, we see Six Sigma practitioners assume important positions in big companies. Their doing so is hoped to make a difference–the Six Sigma advantage, that is–in their respective companies.

Last July 3, HTNG announced the appointment of Thomas Peck and Todd Thompson to Board of Directors. Hotel Technology Next Generation is a self-funded NGO that facilitates the development of next-generation, customer-centric technologies to better meet the needs of the global hotel community. Peck is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and has graduated from several of GE’s executive training programs, and is a published author. Thompson has years in experience in business process engineering among others.

In July 9, Blue Square Energy (BSE), a developer and manufacturer of high-performance silicon solar cells, announced that Alan Swanson is the new VP of Manufacturing Operations. Swanson has more than 25 years experience as a global manufacturing operations executive. As an expert in the Six Sigma methodology, he helped create Tyco Electronics’ Operational Excellence Organization.

In July 11, Newtek Business Services, Inc., a provider of business services and financial products to the small business market under the Newtek(TM) brand, announced that Gordon L. Schroeder is the 6th independent director to join the Newtek Board of Directors. Schroeder has taken extensive Six Sigma training from the GE Center for Learning and Organization Excellence.

Source:
iSixSigma News

Filed under: Manufacturing, Finance, Events/Announcements, Hotels

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