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Design For Six Sigma

SBTI has a Design for Six Sigma program second to none. Design professionals from Polaroid, Kodak, Motorola, AlliedSignal, GE and other leading edge Global 500 companies teach this program. Many competitors offer a 1-2 week program in DFSS. SBTI built the industry's best training and deployment program. Our approach is centered on changing how engineering is accomplished. In today's environment you do not get a second chance on new product launches.

The SBTI DFSS approach gets integrated with your new product development process. Project development is key to great results and executives are involved from the outset to align project and business goals. With stringent student requirements and an extensive 4 to 5 week program, design professionals can complete a Design for Six Sigma Black Belt and show quantifiable design results based on growth, value, AND higher margins over existing or competing products. We have fully customized our Design for Six Sigma approach with over 25 full company deployments, using diverse software suites of Minitab, JMP, Crystal Ball, Design Expert and MS Office applications, such as Excel. Whatever your software and Phase Gate or Stage-Gate process, we will adapt our DFSS program to meet your needs. Our experience includes DFSS in Medical Devices, Food Products, Glass Products, Aluminum Prodicts, Paper Products, Automotive and Engine products, HVAC products, Electircal Products, Cell Phone Products, and Chemical Products.

The focus of the SBTI Design for Six Sigma program begins with marrying the "Voice of the Business" with the "Voice of the Customers". Our 19 step Concept Development process is aimed at creating true breakthrough products that meet and exceed your customer's stated and unstated needs. Once true customer needs are obtained, design personnel progress toward understanding and characterizing critical design parameters and functionality. Customers agree that we offer the most complete and fully rounded Design for Six Sigma program for corporations concerned with the future of new product designs. To make double digit top-line growth a reality, please contact SBTI for more information about our Design For Six Sigma Programs.

What is Innovation?

Innovation is defined in many different ways. The American Heritage Dictionary defines Innovation as "The act of introducing something new". Perhaps a more focused Innovation Definition is this one: "Introduction of a new idea into the marketplace in the form of a new product or service or an improvement in organization or process."

Innovation may be found in any human endeavor where there is no defined path from start to finish. These include new product or process development, development of new systems, including information technology (IT Systems), new technology development, new services creation and development, and usually as a step in nearly all problem solving approaches. These include DMAIC Operations and Transactional Six Sigma, Plan-Do-Check-Act or PDCA cycles, and other quality improvement and process improvement methods like the Ford 8D problem solving approach.

Innovation may be found anywhere change is triggering human activity or a response. So part of your change management approach must include some aspect of planning for Innovation, and Innovation Methods if you want to optimize your change management approach. From Brainstorming, to structured Innovation approaches, to the use of The Scientific Method and The Theory of Russian Inventive Solutions (TRIZ), innovation takes on many possible forms. SBTI's experience in all these approaches and depth in Product and Service Development can help you and your organization apply Innovation in the best possible ways. Whether your company designs assembled products, delivers services including Healthcare, or designs Chemical technologies, we can help apply Innovation Principles to your business.

DFSS - Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Continuous Flow Products Focus

Continuous Flow Products are very different than assembled products, and this is especially true in product development. The SBTI world-class Chemical DFSS (CDFSS) program has been tailored to meet the unique needs and challenges found in developing chemical, pharmaceutical, food manufacturing and other continuous flow products. Already employed by leading companies as Ashland, Celanese, Certainteed, BASF and others, breakthroughs are possible in your new continuous flow products. Solutions are not simple, but they can be effectively found with the Design for Six Sigma - Chemical program. With support from SBTI, trained Six Sigma Green Belts and Black Belts will deploy supervised projects that focus on innovation and quantitative results.

DFSS - Process & Service Design

Many of the tools and techniques of DFSS apply to process and service design, and quite a few do not. SBTI's Six Sigma Process Design (SSPD) program has combined the key tools and methods from DMAIC and DFSS to form a unique 5-day program aimed solely at Service and Process Design. The program has a pre-requisite of Green Belt or Black Belt with transactional focus. For more on this unique program, see our resource library, or to hear about it in our podcast.

DFSS Links

Software DFSS with PS&J

Service & Process Design (SSPD)

Critical Parameter Management Software(Cognition)

Enterprise Project Management: Instantis, PowerSteering

Monte Carlo Simulation(Crystal Ball), Process Simulation with IGrafx

Tools & Methods: QFD & TRIZ with IdeaCore, Reliability Tools by Relex, Tolerance Modeling with VarTran

Societies & Meeting Places: ISixSigma, IEEE, Society of Reliability Engineers, ISSSP, Systems Engineering, Real Innovation, a free information resource