{"id":954,"date":"2023-10-07T03:40:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T03:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/?p=954"},"modified":"2023-11-07T20:15:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:15:43","slug":"six-sigma-white-belt-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/2023\/10\/07\/six-sigma-white-belt-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Sigma White Belt Training (Week 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, the Road Watch team attended Six Sigma White Belt training as a team building exercise. The workshop was hosted by our sponsor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.6sigma.us\/customer\/fpl-energy\/\">FPL<\/a>. Six Sigma is a method for systematically reducing defects in processes, and is often employed by businesses looking to improve efficiency. Our workshop focused on a variant of Six Sigma called Lean Six Sigma, which augments traditional Six Sigma by also emphasizing a reduction of wasteful effort in processes. The workshop was organized around a car dealership simulation. We first acted out a deliberately inefficient process for selling a car; then, after learning about Lean Six Sigma, we were tasked with improving the process and running the scenario again. The techniques we learned greatly improved our process efficiency. Thank you <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ronald-flores-92495715\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Flores<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lindalinnus\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Linnus<\/a> for running the workshop and teaching us. The skills introduced at the workshop will prove useful in optimizing our product development process, so keep checking here weekly to see how we do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/10\/sixsigma-1024x756.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/10\/sixsigma-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/10\/sixsigma-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/10\/sixsigma-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/10\/sixsigma-1536x1135.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/10\/sixsigma-2048x1513.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/10\/sixsigma-284x210.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Road Watch Team after our Six Sigma White Belt training. From left to right, top to bottom: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/meet-this-team#darrion\">Darrion Ramos<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ronald-flores-92495715\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Flores<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lindalinnus\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Linnus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/meet-this-team#william\">William &#8220;Billy&#8221; Jones<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/meet-this-team#skyler\">Skyler Levine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/meet-this-team#evan\">Evan Andresen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/meet-this-team#rolando\">Rolando Angulo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/meet-this-team#richard\">Richard &#8220;Will&#8221; McCoy<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Road Watch team attended Six Sigma White Belt training as a team building exercise. The workshop was hosted by our sponsor, FPL. Six Sigma is a method for systematically reducing defects in processes, and is often employed&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/2023\/10\/07\/six-sigma-white-belt-training\/\" aria-label=\"Read \\\"Six Sigma White Belt Training (Week 6)\\\" class=\"read-more\">Read&nbsp;More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fallsemester"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2324team06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}