Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Project
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Project from Akul Chodankar
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Project

Project Brief: Implementation of Lean Six Sigma tools to analyze the causes for product lead time of 2months of the product ‘Naldecon’.

The product ‘Naldecon’ manufactured by ‘Bristol Myers Squib’ is delivered to the customer ‘Reckitt and Benckiser’ with a lead time of 2 months. This project involved the use of various Lean Six Sigma tools to analyze and systematically arrive at a solution for the problem of product lead time. Using brain storming techniques, value stream mapping, weighted voting and other LSS tools solutions were suggested to reduce the lead time to 5 weeks.

The root causes of supervisor – worker trust, redundant tests, line sanitization during work hours and outdated work policies were detected, to be resolved.

Team consensus on the process flow block diagram for 'Naldecon'
Swim lane diagram dividing the important tasks of the production process into their corresponding departments
Swim lane diagram with each task tagged with the actual process time and the lead time
Flip chart with brain storming ideas on one of the root cause of having too many quality control checks leading to increase in lead time
Weighted voting to determine the main cause to be given priority of handling
Paired comparison of the decided root causes from the fish bone diagram, to determine the priority of causes to be handled
Regrouping brain-storming ideas into similar groups
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Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Project

Project Brief: Implementation of Lean Six Sigma tools to analyze the causes for product lead time of 2months of the product ‘Naldecon’.

The product ‘Naldecon’ manufactured by ‘Bristol Myers Squib’ is delivered to the customer ‘Reckitt and Benckiser’ with a lead time of 2 months. This project involved the use of various Lean Six Sigma tools to analyze and systematically arrive at a solution for the problem of product lead time. Using brain storming techniques, value stream mapping, weighted voting and other LSS tools solutions were suggested to reduce the lead time to 5 weeks.

The root causes of supervisor – worker trust, redundant tests, line sanitization during work hours and outdated work policies were detected, to be resolved.

Akul Chodankar
Mechanical Engineer Rochester, NY