(The Manufacturing Institute: Manchester, UK) -- For manufacturers who find they are making too many products that are rejected under quality control, or using too much raw material and producing far too much scrap at start-up, The Manufacturing Institute’s Six Sigma Green Belt course helps by equipping delegates with the tools to implement cost savings of up to £100,000 ($160,000).

Six Sigma, originally developed by U.S. electronics giant Motorola, has become the adopted strategy for manufacturing businesses to improve the quality of their production by identifying and removing defect causes, and minimizing, or in some cases, eliminating, those processes that may cause a variability in output.

By guiding a business through the sigma levels of increasing-percentage product yield, a manufacturer can improve to a point where it is producing 99.99-percent right-first-time products. With some businesses starting from a low of 31-percent right-first-time, this means vastly reduced rejection and waste and proportionally increased yield. The end result is an all-important increase in bottom-line profit.

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