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Bachelor of Business Level 7 NFQ
NFQ Level & Reference
Level 7 / Ref: M3.11
duration
12 weeks X 2.5 Hours per week
MODULE TITLE
Lean Six Sigma (Elective)
STAGE
Award
Module Credit Unit
ECTS: 5

Lean & Six Sigma Module

Introducing Lean Six Sigma

This Lean Six sigma course will enable learners develop an understanding of a crucial business area, particularly valuable in specific sectors. It focuses on managing organisational processes and procedures, and on identifying and eliminating wasteful activities. These skills are essential for ensuring long-term business viability, making business managers with this expertise highly valuable to organisations. The course will enable graduates to independently plan and run lean six sigma projects in organisations.

Indicative Syllabus Content

Sources of Waste:

  • Overproduction; Idle time waste / Delivery time waste; Waste in processes; Inventory Waste; Waste of rejected parts – handling returns; Waste operator motions / layout of work stations / storage / bins / lines

Customer Focus:

  • Capture the Voice of Customer (VoC); Capture the Voice of Business (VoB); Identify and define CTQs (Critical to Quality) measures; Add regulatory and/or internal requirements; Develop and analyse competitors matrix

Costs of Quality:

  • Preventing the following quality costs by preventing poor quality of products; Costs of products returned; Costs of reverse logistics / storage; Costs of client relationship management time; Internal / External failure costs; Compliance costs

Six Sigma Tools

  • Quality Function Deployment (QFD); SIPOC – Suppliers/Inputs/ Process/Output/Customers; Kanban – Pull systems in warehouses; Jidoka – design of machines equipment; 5S; Kaizen and Error proofing; Value Stream process mapping

Role of Artificial Intelligence and product design

  • Process design / re-design to facilitate new and emerging technologies; achieving efficiencies through AI; streamlining processes; predictive and preventive maintenance

Sustainability and Circularity

  • Carbon footprint and substitute materials; product design for circular economy; impact of regulatory frameworks seeking to establish circular economy; Environmental Impact Statements; Bio-diversity and agribusiness

Minimum Intended Learning Outcomes (MIMLOs)

Upon successful completion of this module, the learner should be able to:
MIMLO1
Design and document processes to identify the key sources of waste in manufacturing and services.
MIMLO2
Critique the roles of leadership and strategic planning in organizational settings that are crucial to effective and efficient lean six sigma initiatives
MIMLO3
Apply lean six sigma tools in projects, including Quality Function Deployment; Critical to Quality requirements. (CTQ).
MIMLO4
Evaluate sustainability and circularity in lean six sigma projects.
MIMLO5
Evaluate new and emerging technologies in operations, including Artificial Intelligence, and product and process design.

Assessment

MIMLOs
Assessment
Percentage
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
CA1 - Individual Assignment
100%

Reassessment Opportunity

Where the combined marks of the assessment and examination do not reach the pass mark the learner will be required to repeat the element of assessment that they failed. Reassessment materials will be published on Moodle after the Examination Board Meeting Meeting and will be aligned to the MIMLOs and learners will be capped at 40% unless there are personal mitigating circumstances.

Aims & Objectives

The Lean Six Sigma course aims to enable the learner to understand how organisations aim to achieve waste elimination in manufacturing / services and how to plan, execute and control lean six sigma projects. It will focus on the key lean six sigma processes of Strategic Planning; Sources of Waste; Tools; Costs of Quality; Customer Focus and Supply Chain Management.

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