About
This course introduces the fundamental Lean Six Sigma principles that underlay modern continuous improvement approaches for industry, government and other organizations. Lean emerged from the Japanese automotive industry, particularly Toyota, and is focused on the creation of value through the relentless elimination of waste. Six Sigma is a quality system developed at Motorola which focuses on elimination of variation from all processes. The basic principles have been applied to a wide range of organizations and sectors to improve quality, productivity, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, time-to-market and financial performance.
This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.
Course Homepage: 16.660 / 16.853 / ESD.62J Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods
Videos

Session 3-3-1: Quality tools and topics 1
Feb 22, 2011
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Session 1-7: New Balance® plant tour
Feb 22, 2011
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2365 views

Session 3-5: People: the heart of Lean
Feb 22, 2011
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2344 views

Session 2-2: Lean supply chain basics
Feb 22, 2011
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3163 views

Session 1-4: Lean thinking
Feb 22, 2011
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6315 views

Session 3-4: Guest talk on Learn engineering or office application
Feb 22, 2011
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2402 views

Session 3-6: Implementing Lean
Feb 22, 2011
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2430 views

Session 1-6: Value stream mapping fundamentals
Feb 22, 2011
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3143 views

Session 1-2: The start of your Lean journey
Feb 22, 2011
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5958 views

Session 2-4: Lean engineering basics
Feb 22, 2011
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3727 views

Session 2-1 (2-3, 2-5): Lego® simulation (covers 2-1, 2-3, and 2-5)
Feb 22, 2011
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2258 views

Session 1-3-1: Leading improvement across a complex aerospace enterprise
Feb 22, 2011
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2636 views

Session 3-2: Variability simulation
Feb 22, 2011
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2267 views