Six Sigma Lean Green Belt
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2024 teaching periods
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Aims and objectives
Pre-2020 unit code: BUS60016
This unit provides students with an understanding of the theory and effective application of Lean Management concepts, tools and practices to enable positive change. Students are required to target an area within an organisation and leverage their learning to initiate, implement and sustain quantitative and/or qualitative improvements through a workplace project.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Apply coherent and advanced knowledge of the analysis required prior to strategy creation and the issues that may arise in the successful implementation of strategy.
2. Critically evaluate the key factors for success and sustainability in a lean deployment.
3. Critically analyse the key lean and change management tools and practices to achieve and sustain process improvements.
4. Apply coherent and advanced knowledge of the lean principles required to strategy facilitate the successful implementation.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Block Mode:
This unit will be delivered in block or intensive mode. Block mode may consist of blended, intensive and immersive teaching, which can include full day teaching and weekend teaching requirements – as specified in the Unit Outline.
Student workload:
For all teaching and learning structures (both face to face and online), students are expected to spend an average of 150 hours per unit in total over the duration of the study period
This includes all:
• Scheduled teaching and learning events and activities (contact hours timetabled in a face-to-face teaching space) and scheduled online learning events (contact hours scheduled in an online teaching space), and
To be successful, students should:
• Read all prescribed materials and/or view videos in preparation for each class
• Attend and engage in all scheduled classes (face to face or online)
• Start assessment tasks well ahead of the due date, and submit assessments promptly
• Read / listen to all feedback carefully, and consider it for future assessment
• Engage with fellow students and teaching staff (don’t hesitate to ask questions)
This unit will be delivered in block or intensive mode. Block mode may consist of blended, intensive and immersive teaching, which can include full day teaching and weekend teaching requirements – as specified in the Unit Outline.
Student workload:
For all teaching and learning structures (both face to face and online), students are expected to spend an average of 150 hours per unit in total over the duration of the study period
This includes all:
• Scheduled teaching and learning events and activities (contact hours timetabled in a face-to-face teaching space) and scheduled online learning events (contact hours scheduled in an online teaching space), and
• Non-scheduled learning events and activities (including directed online learning activities, assessments, independent study, student group meetings, and research)
• Read all prescribed materials and/or view videos in preparation for each class
• Attend and engage in all scheduled classes (face to face or online)
• Start assessment tasks well ahead of the due date, and submit assessments promptly
• Read / listen to all feedback carefully, and consider it for future assessment
• Engage with fellow students and teaching staff (don’t hesitate to ask questions)
Assessment
Assignment 1 (Individual) 20-30%
Assignment 2 (Group) 20-30%
Tests (Individual) 20-40%
Reflection (Individual) 20-30%
General skills outcomes
During this unit students will receive feedback on the following key generic skills:
- problem solving skills
- analysis skills
- communication skills
- ability to tackle unfamiliar problems, and
- ability to work independently
Content
- Applying Lean to specific organisations
- Lean Tools and Practices I,
- Improving Process Flow,
- Lean Tools and Practices II,
- Reducing Variation and improving Quality,
- Value Stream mapping,
- Kaizen,
- 5S,
- Implementing Lean and Six Sigma in an organisation,
- Managing Change Resistance, and,
- The Roadmap to Lean Implementation.
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.