IIT – SSFA SHORT TERM COURSE ADMISSION 2010 – KHARAGPUR

Organizations of all types and sizes worldwide are facing steep challenges for their survival and sustenance in the market. Customers expect more quality and value for their investment. At this juncture, the companies need to ensure a major quality revolution through improved and sustainable product design, process planning and design, and valued services to the customers. Sixsigma program encompasses and implements a wholistic view to achieve the above. Companies like Motorola, Sony, Nokia, American Express and others enjoy huge competitive edge over their counter parts in the marketplace because they implemented Six-sigma into their organizations. Six-sigma is a statistical meas ure of variability in a given process. Variation is the cause of defects or out of control processes.

When an organization has achieved a Sixsigma rate of improvement, it has limited defects to 3.4 per million, which is virtually defect free performance. Six-sigma consists of a well structured methodology which requires to be applied and integrated up and down the organization for achieving significant results. Adopting and applying Six-sigma methodologies can lead to dramatically improved business performance and bottom line profitability. Six-sigma is not designed solely for manufacturing enterprises. Financial institutions, healthcare organizations, and service providers are also reaping the benefits of Six-sigma deployment. The Indian industries and business enterprises in general have also been aware of the potential of Six Sigma for achieving excellent and all out organizational performance. A well-trained group of personnel cutting across different functions and department of an organization is a prime necessity in order to achieve the goal of Sixsigma.

IIT Kharagpur, being an internationally recognized technical institution of India having a number of experts with proven knowledge, expertise, and research capabilities in quality engineering, control and management, offers this short term course on Six Sigma Fundamentals & Applications to provide business and industry professionals with valuable insight into the big picture issues required for successful implementation of Six Sigma at an organizational level.

Objectives of the Course : The primary objectives of the course are as follows:
i) Exposing participants to the fundamentals of Six Sigma methodology, tools and techniques vis-à-vis implementation issues,
ii) Building in confidence and capability amongst the participants in mapping the organizational activities and problems in terms of Six Sigma framework,
iii) Providing exposure to the participants on Six-sigma applications through case studies and live projects.

Eligibility : Executives and engineers from marketing, purchase, production, R&D, HRD, administration, and IT of manufacturing and service organizations; scientists from research laboratories; and teachers from technical institutions.

Course Contents : The course will address the following main issues:
i) Present industrial situation and relevance of Six-sigma
ii) Theory and principles of Six-sigma
iii) Six-sigma methodology
iv) Tools and Techniques of Six-sigma
v) Implementation of Six-sigma

Course Schedule : 9 am to 5 pm with 2-hour lunch break on each day. The lecture will be delivered by the coordinators, faculty members of IIT
Kharagpur, and experts from industries.

Training Methods : The methods consist of lecture sessions, hands-on-exercises, discussions on cases, and live problems.

Application and Fee : The interested participants are requested to apply to one of the coordinators by filling in the Registration Form provided with the brochure. The total number of seats is restricted to 30. The participants will be selected on “first-cum-first-served” basis out of the eligible candidates. The fee for the five-day programme is Rs. 15,000/- per participant. Payment is to be made through a bank draft drawn in favour of “CEP-STC, IIT Kharagpur” payable at Kharagpur. The course fee includes course materials and participation fee and includes boarding and lodging for the participants.

Contact :
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur 721 302
INDIA

Email : jmaiti(AT)iem.iitkgp.ernet.in / pkr(AT)hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in

Contact Number : 03222 – 283750 (O), 283751 (R) / 281788 (O)

Source : http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/downloads/sigma_funda.pdf