The DesiGators joined the rest of their IPPD cohort to attend the Team Building Workshop and White Belt Six Sigma Training presented by Florida Power & Light. The event was centered around process improvement and eliminating wasteful practices. The DesiGators were paired up with PolarFlow Optics to work on a simulation where we acted as a car dealership.

In the first round of the simulation, the dealership was run with a lengthy process that had many unnecessary steps that drastically slowed down the time it took to sell a car. The team only sold four cars and had an average of seven minutes per sale. A Six Sigma Black Belt and Six Sigma Master Black Belt then broke down the Six Sigma and LEAN mentalities and how processes could be trimmed down to improve productivity.

In the second round of the simulation, the team used an updated sales process to sell cars in a competition with all the other IPPD teams. The team managed to more than quintuple their sales, selling a total of 23 cars, and drastically reduced their average time per sale to around a minute and a half. The combined DesiGators and PolarFlow Optics team combined to have the most cars sold out of all the competing teams!

The team celebrated earning their Six Sigma White Belt certifications and simulation win by grilling some kebabs! The perfect end to an IPPD-filled Saturday!