Successful organizations, whether or not they are heavily into Six Sigma initiatives, understand the value of committing resources early to avoid problems later.  This is the fundamental argument for establishing a Design for Six Sigma program.  If your organization is thinking of making commitment to develop products and processes more efficiently, contact Scripps & Associates, PC today.

Scripps & Associates, PC’s Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) programs are set apart by numerous criteria:

• They are customized to your processes. Scripps & Associates, PC will not sell an “off-the-shelf” generic program. Programs can vary with respect to their content, length or format to meet the needs of the particular organization.
• They are “content rich.” Scripps & Associates, PC sees too many competitive programs spending too much time training adults the necessary, but self-evident tools of DFSS.  In Scripps & Associates, PC DFSS programs, participants are generally given project-based homework to apply the more self-evident steps of the DFSS process.
• Thomas A Scripps, principal of Scripps & Associates, PC shows unparalleled enthusiasm and devotion to the success of his clients.

Scripps & Associates, PC conducts DFSS overviews for executives and project managers, and intensive skill-building foundations for technical staffs. Below is a nominal outline for a ten-day training program for technical staffs. This, of course, would be modified to fit your product development process and your training needs, but it gives you a sense of the breadth of material that is covered for a substantial DFSS body of knowledge.

Week 1 DFSS Agenda

• Overview of DFSS – developing IDEAS
• Fundamental Concepts Data
  • Operational Definitions
  • Stability
  • Risk
  • Squared Loss
• Introduction to Minitab
• Identify
  • Voice of Customer
  • Project Charter
  • Quality Function Deployment
  • Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
  • Gap Analysis
  • Measurement System Analysis
• Design
  • Concept Design
  • Empirical Design
  • Comparison of Alternatives
  • Experiment Design
  • Full Factorial Designs
  • Fractional Factorial Designs

Week 2 DFSS Agenda

• Week 1 Review
• Design (continued)
  • Dealing Effectively with Noise
  • Regression
  • Response Surface Methodology
  • Optimization of Multiple Characteristics
• Evaluate
  • Tolerancing
  • Process Capability
  • Sources of Variation
  • Reliability
• Affirm
  • Confirmatory Testing
  • Sensitivity Analysis
  • Project Review / Validation
• Scale-up
  • Error Proofing
  • Control Plan
  • Statistical Process Control