8S Business Solutions - Process Improvement Facilitation

Six Sigma Toolkit

Tools and Techniques

Affinity Diagrams

Brainstorming ideas and looking for patterns, are there trends? What is your data / people telling you?

DMAIC

Structured Problem Solving: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control

Data Collection

Big Data is a way of life in modern business. Collect the data that's important to you, and use results to drive strategic decisions.

Effective Root Cause Analysis

Pareto, 5 Whys, Hypothesis Testing, Fishbone, and more. Until the root cause is understood, you're only fixing symptoms.

Go, Look, See

Nothing is ever fully experienced in a conference room. Go see, ask why. Experience the process to truly understand.

Process / Value Stream Map

A process can't be improved until it's understood. Map the process from start to finish. Learn the flow, find the waste

Standard Work

Visual work instructions, procedures, and guides. Learn and document best practices to improve consistency.

Voice of the Customer

Do you know what your customer's needs, wants, and values are... or do you just assume?

Short Term Skills Assistance

Through risk assessments and feasibility reviews, sometimes gaps are found in core competencies. However, the automatic answer isn't to hire a full time worker for a short term project.

We partner with subject matter experts in all technical and business disciplines. If your team needs addition skills, we can provide the training, or get you in contact with the experts who can.

PPAP Facilitation

The production part approval process. Like FMEAs, once PPAP was solely the tool of the auto industry. However, in today's modern business environment, PPAPs are used in industries from ice machines to airplanes.

Through our many years working with AIAG, we offer insight, training, skills, contracting help, or just advice. We have taken teams who couldn't spell PPAP, and gave them the skills they needed to build the best PPAPs their industry has ever seen.

Culture / Branding

What is "Culture" to you?

Simply defined, culture is everything you say, everything you do, everything you don't say, and everything you don't do. Employees, just like children, are watching and learning, even when you don't want them to.

What actions and behaviors support the narrative and the brand you're trying to build, and what do current actions say about the culture that's lurking beneath the surface?

Why are we here?

Our Vision

Tools and Techniques

Short Term Skills Assistance

PPAP Facilitation

Culture / Branding