ISE 5811/5812 - Integrated Lean Sigma Capstone Certification Experience

This book presents innovative breakthroughs in operational excellence that can solve the operational issues of smart factories. It illustrates various tools and techniques of Lean Six Sigma 4.0 and details their suitability for manufacturing and service systems. It provides technological advancement in operational excellence and offers a framework to integrate Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0.

This book is a guide for organizations and individuals to streamline operations, optimize resources, and deliver superior customer value through implementing Lean Six Sigma Methodologies. It provides a practical roadmap for achieving process, product, and service improvement. It introduces readers to the powerful framework of Lean Six Sigma, combining Lean and Six Sigma Methodologies. It takes readers through the DMAIC model - Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control - providing a structured approach to identifying inefficiencies, reducing defects, and enhancing overall business performance.

This book focuses on the human side of organizational culture from the perspective of alignment to mission, vision, and values. Using a Lean Six Sigma structure, the sequence of chapters begins with the organization and its structure, then drills through strategic, operational, and tactical levels of process and behavior which establish and grow the overall culture of the organization over time.

This book describes many of the obstacles that Change Agents must overcome and the knowledge they need to make them credible with both leaders and the workforce they are tasked with navigating through an organizational transformation. Technical subjects such as diagnostic and improvement tools are described as well as pointing the reader in the direction of relevant theory and practical advice from the authors who have collectively more than 45 years of experience in such roles.