Carsten and Mick have been having a great discussion about Belts and requirements for each Belt. I thought it interesting enough that maybe we could devote a new blog entry to it. With that in mind, if everyone contributes, maybe we can develop a hierarchy of what the levels are and how it all fits together. This is something I don't have a lot of familiarity with because of being a "one man show". (and yes, you can insert "one man circus side-show" into the previous sentence if you feel the urge :-)
Hope everyone is doing well. I was asked to chair a meeting this afternoon with my upper management so that I could teach them basic TRIZ and then allow them to apply it to a "contradiction" problem we are faced with. So, I've read my fair share of TRIZ over the last day and am excited to see how they take the information and use it on one of our problems. Wish me luck.
Fred
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How was the meeting? Did they get it? I like the 9 square matrix the most of TRIZ because it's so simple even I can use it ;-)
Regarding the new post topic, I want to start with the WABCO definition of our Belts:
-White Belt-
Start of program: June 2008
Target group: at first shopfloor workers, later all employees
Topics:
Pure basic problem solving skills as 9 Step problem solving method with some quality tools like Histogram, Pareto, Process Map C&E, etc.
Area of projects:
Direct work place (line) of respective WB
-Yellow Belt-
Start of program: Mai 2007
Target Group: Employees of Quality and Supplier Development departments
Topics:
Root Cause Corrective Actions (RCCA) method with fault trees
Basics in Quality tools
Area of projects:
Escalated Quality problems, e.g. customer complaints, line stopps
-Green Belt-
Start of program: 2000
Target Group: recommended employees of all departments
Topics:
DMAIC
Area of projects:
Within their respective function/department
-Black Belt-
Start of program: 2000
Target Group: Promotable employees
Topics:
DMAIC
Area of projects:
Within their respective function/department
I'm excited to read about your definitions.
Carsten, the TRIZ class went well. It was hard putting it into practice knowing that the ideas would really have to be implemented and not just "pie in the sky" ideas. I like the 9 screen too. I don't have any Belt criteria established since I am a "one man show", but as we expand, I know that I will need to have some. You've outlined your belt programs well. Does anyone have a different take on the belt levels?
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