Lean Six Sigma for Beginners

Improving performance is a constant objective in any industry. Acquiring lean and Six Sigma competency will help professionals at any level achieve their productivity goals. Lean Six Sigma for Beginners is a quick guide perfect for anyone new to Lean Six Sigma (LSS) to help them gain the competency to make improvements. Chapters are organized to align with steps in the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) framework, explaining the different stages thoroughly. In each stage, author Gary Jing offers guidance to eliminate deficiencies by using tactics or tools.

This handy pocket guide:

• Follows a typical project roadmap that users can easily navigate, step-by-step, to carry out LSS projects.
• Focuses on soft, non-statistical LSS tools to help professionals better prepare to work with data analytics and statistics.
• Offers some unique practices and perspectives on popular tools, such as root cause analysis (RCA) and failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).
• Provides key takeaways to conclude and summarize each chapter.
• Upskills students and next-generation quality professionals to prepare them for transitioning into the job market.

Gary Jing, PhD, a fellow of ASQ, has been a Master Black Belt and Lean Six Sigma deployment leader for nearly 30 years. Currently an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas teaching Lean Six Sigma and a quality manager at nVent, he has also worked as a continuous improvement director at CommScope. He was on the U.S. delegation to ISO Technical Committee 176 and participated in the development of ISO 9000:2015 as the secretary. He earned a doctorate in industrial engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Jing has over 30 publications in Lean & Six Sigma Review and is an ASQ-certified quality engineer and quality manager.