Instruction is led by faculty from the UT San Antonio Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems
The course consists of four days of lecture-based coverage of topics in Lean, Six-Sigma, and two days of individual hands-on, on-site project formulation and guidance resulting in significant operational savings and/or enhancement of product/service quality.
In order to ensure the learning effectiveness, each industry participant must be allowed (by his/her employer) to use at least 20% of his/her regular work time during the certification program period of time for completion the required project.
Each student participant must complete an improvement project at student’s employment site. The project is expected to produce significant impact of at least $50,000 savings and/or on service/product quality enhancements.