We train rapid problem solving skills

Problem Solving skills are the hallmark of a good supervisor. The pace of operations is relentless. Every day, supervisors must solve quality problems, reassign processes and people, correct attitudes and behaviours and expedite work, all to keep products flowing and services going. Good supervisors quickly figure out how to respond quickly and contain problems. 

But great supervisors do more than that. They know how to develop permanent countermeasures that prevent problems from recurring. That requires a different set of problem solving skills. These skills are taught by Training within Industry and Six Sigma. TWI Problem Solving skills (TWI PS) enable supervisors to permanently improve behaviours (TWI JR), build robust simple processes (TWI JM), develop job skills (TWI JI) and prevent safety incidents (TWI JS). By applying Six Sigma problem solving skills supervisors rapidly improve products and services.

For too long, Six Sigma has remained the domain of staff experts and Training within Industry was nearly forgotten in the West. Supervisor Academy makes these powerful leadership skills accessible again - to all supervisors. Six Sigma and great leadership skills can be easily learned through our groundbreaking training system. Let’s return these problem solving skills to where they belong: the front-line of leadership. That’s what they were designed for. Let’s free our supervisors - let them no longer work as operators. Empower our supervisors - to become great leaders who develop exceptional teams and processes, so that they not only deliver good output today, but become the catalysts of making ‘tomorrow better than today’, every day.

Six Sigma certification has transformed the world of product design and quality improvement, driving tremendous improvements in quality and time to market. Six Sigma is a great skill set for supervisors. Once basic stability in people and processes has been achieved through application of Training within Industry skills, Six Sigma certification raises supervisors’ capability for rapidly reducing variability and improving quality in their departments.

For too long Six Sigma certification has remained the domain of engineers and staff experts. It’s time to democratise access to the powerful Six Sigma skills. Supervisor Academy makes learning and using Six Sigma for process improvement easy and accessible to all supervisors. Supervisor Academy offers Six Sigma certification and Lean Six Sigma certification for green belts and black belts.

Six Sigma training & SIX SIGMA CERTIFICATION - learning to see and fight variation

Six Sigma training develops skill in pinpointing performance problems & squeezing process variation. Understanding variation and knowing how to reduce it to achieve stable, predictable process performance is one of the most critical supervisors skills. Six Sigma training provides the necessary understanding and know-how, and builds the confidence supervisors and managers need to apply powerful Six Sigma tools to their own processes. Six Sigma certification guides them through their first steps of applying Six Sigma skills and techniques, delivering a real impact in Quality, Service Performance and Cost.

SIX SIGMA CERTIFICATION TRAINING ONLINE, LIVE STREAM OR ON-SITE

Business processes experience the ill effects of unsatisfactory variability. Starting with one day then onto the next Process Outputs can quantify adequate to inadmissible Quality, Cost, and Delivery Outputs. Why? Basic, Process Variation. 

Solution? An Organization structure created with Six Sigma Black Belt Practitioners will drastically improve both product and service related results. Our Six Sigma Black Belt Online Certification is a practical program that has been designed to make powerful Six Sigma skills accessible to everyone in your organisation. 

We focus on practical skills and tools real-life supervisors actually use when managing their processes, rather than bombarding them with complexity and unnecessary theory. With our disciplined focus on practice and application, will furnish all levels of the organisation with a solid understanding and practical devices to quickly go to work and improve process outputs.

Our unique Six Sigma training & certification is available as distance learning or with on-site support to suit and organisation’s needs.

• on-site, where our expert trainer work with your teams hands on, on the shop-floor or in the office to improve process performance

• live streamed classes with live coaching support online, guiding your teams step by step from developing Six Sigma skills to using them to make an impact

• online self-study with coaching support throughout the certification project, to enable busy individuals to complete the training at their own pace

Six Sigma Certification LEVELS: SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT, RED BELT & GREEN BELT

Our Six Sigma Black Belt Curriculum is structured in concise practical levels of 10 hours of class content, each. By completing these levels progressively, supervisors, managers and engineers build powerful skills in bite-sized, digestible steps without being overwhelmed. 

Each level builds on the skills and knowledge gained in the previous one and leads to a stand-alone certification. Certification levels available are Six Sigma Green Belt, Six Sigma Red Belt, Six Sigma Black Belt, and Design for Six Sigma Black Belt. This modular learning structure can be individually paced according to the needs of the organisations and the ability of the individual employee. Our Six Sigma certification structure integrates perfectly with companies career path structure and individual development plans.

Level 1 - Six Sigma Green Belt - Graphical analysis, variation reduction and rapid experiments

Level 2 - Six Sigma Red Belt - Design of Experiments (DOE)

Level 3 - Six Sigma Black Belt - Advanced improvement techniques

Level 4 - Design for Six Sigma Back Belt - Powerful optimisation skills for Design and Process Engineers

Use Machine Problem Solving to permanently remove the causes of machine problems and boost machine reliability and performance.

Machine Problem Solving (MPS) drives rapid improvement in equipment reliability and performance. It develops systematic problem-solving capabilities that complement the technical expertise (engineering qualifications & machine-specific know-how) of engineers and technicians and boost existing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) programs. Developing these skills should be a major focus in the development of engineering and maintenance teams, as they enable technical staff to provide optimal support for line improvement activities led by operations supervisors.

Skill developed: rapid problem containment & development of permanent countermeasures for manufacturing equipment

Delivery: 5 class-room sessions, one 2-hour session per day (one week)

Practice: analysing, containing and solving recurrent machine problems

Return on Investment: MPS projects, started during the training week and scoped to be completed within 4-6 weeks, deliver rapid impact & ROI

Machine reliability is a major source of output and quality losses experienced by companies in many industries. Machine stops have a significant effect on line stability, capacity requirements and cost. Without stable machine performance, standardised work and stable, predictable process performance cannot be achieved. To achieve world-class line performance, machine problems must be quickly contained, their causes correctly identified and fixed, and the solutions ‘locked in’ to prevent recurrence.

What Machine Problem Solving graduates will be able to do

• explain how Machine Problem Solving enables the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) programs in their organisation

• correctly identify the exact location and nature of a machine problem

• quickly and effectively contain the problem to restore production quality and flow

• define and deploy effective countermeasures to fix the true causes of the problem

• lock in countermeasures to prevent recurrence

Machine Problem Solving provides significant business benefits. 

• reliable product quality

• increased machine output

• greater equipment availability and reliability

• stable line performance

• boosted line productivity and cost

• enhanced impact of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) programs