SmartOPEX

Intelligent Operational Excellence

In today's marketplace, organizations are struggling to find ways to streamline processes and reduce costs. But knowing how to achieve faster benefits presents a challenge for organizations whether revitalizing an existing process or starting a new process.

To address this need for process optimization, speed in a changing market and a better return on investment, Acosixsigma has designed a comprehensive innovation implementation methodology called SmartOPEX. Years in development and resulting from real world applications, the focus is set on improving a business starting with outlining improvement activities with global strategies. This guarantees that resources are directed to projects with the greatest impact on business competitiveness and financial performance.

SmartOPEX breaks down the barriers that prevent traditional approaches and addresses a number of application issues, such as strategic alignment, sustaining improvement, and the possibility of rapidly progressing towards self-sufficiency.

SmartOPEX is achieved through four phases that cover training in Lean Six Sigma for Champions, Black Belts, Green Belts and Yellow Belts with project support and certification of the participants.

The integration of Lean and Six Sigma was the last true revolution in process improvement strategy. Now, with most of the low hanging fruit achieved through conventional improvement projects, leaders are challenged to implement innovative methods that produce ever-increasing bottom-line results.

SmartOPEX brings an integrated framework to implement and manage a process improvement program, incorporates constraint management tools to understand your organization's key leverage points. This innovation simplifies management's job by providing a systems perspective to focus on improvements and breaking system constraints, especially given today's economy and the scarce resources that are available.
We have years of testing and refining the application of SmartOPEX by leading experts to produce a comprehensive improvement methodology that eliminates the shortcomings of previous approaches:

  • It can scale to any size organization and aligns with existing business strategy.
  • Shorten the traditional lead time from adoption to results.
  • Optimizes the use of available resources to achieve the desired goals.
  • Break with the limitations of the system and maximize the efficiency of the organization.
  • Maintain earnings and define a path to self-sufficiency.

Whether your organization is just beginning the path to excellence or you need to jumpstart your current program, Acosixsigma can show you how to successfully integrate these methods into your organization.

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FAQ

What is the minimum number of hours in a Green Belt / Black Belt program?

According to the Body of Knowledge (BOK) of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the international certification programs recognized by Motorola University and the International Society for Six Sigma Certifications, the minimum hour number of the Six Sigma program is:

  • Green Belt – 80 hours
  • Black Belt – 120 hours

There are a number of Six Sigma programs that are widely marketed and apply only a fraction of the BOK for each level. Acosixsigma is recognized for the large amount of curricular content that applies to all types of industry. For example, the estimated time for a Black Belt certification course is 120 hours, not including additional time allocated to a Six Sigma project. Other providers offer Black Belt training courses totaling 90 hours and Green Belt courses advertised at 56 hours. Therefore the variability in class hours obviously serves as a warning for interested companies to carefully check the subjects when taking a particular course against the established criteria for certification.

What is a Lean / Kaizen / Blitz Event?

A Lean/Kaizen/Blitz Event is an intense effort where the team applies specific Lean approaches to reduce waste, defects, and cycle time and to implement improvements in a particular process or department.

What is Lean Six Sigma?

Lean Six Sigma is an integrated set of methodologies that encompasses both Lean and Six Sigma concepts. It combines two powerful toolsets to address all aspects of quality, cost, and delivery. Both sets of methodologies have a customer and quality focus and are based on continuous improvement, which allows them to be very complementary.
Lean focuses on offering competitively priced products and services by eliminating waste and its drivers, while Six Sigma focuses on minimizing and reducing process variation that causes nonconformities.

How is Lean Six Sigma different from Lean or Six Sigma on its own?

Lean Six Sigma combines the strength and rigor of Six Sigma and data-driven analysis with the simple tools of Lean to eliminate waste and its drivers. The combination of the two methods provides a more robust set of tools for organizations to apply to solve problems, using the tools and techniques that best suit the specific problem at hand. Rather than the traditional independent use of tools, Lean Six Sigma combines Lean approaches into Six Sigma through the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) method, as well as allowing Lean approaches to be used on their own. in the DMAIC model.

How does Lean Six Sigma apply to process improvement?

Process improvement is necessary for the performance of an organization that does not meet customer requirements. Lean Six Sigma offers a comprehensive set of tools, techniques, and approaches to enable an organization to gather customer requirements, analyze existing performance against those requirements, implement solutions to address performance gaps, and maintain best-in-class status. The tools and techniques used are the most appropriate for the specific problem at hand.