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Nasmyth employees awarded Six Sigma Green Belts

Another five Nasmyth Group employees have been awarded their Six Sigma Green Belt certificates.

A further five Nasmyth Group employees have been awarded their Six Sigma Green Belt certificates.

The five staff members who have received the award are:

  • Matt Ager – Planner, Doughty Precision Engineering Ltd (Project: Ontime Delivery Performance)
  • Steff Braddick - Quality Engineer, IEC Engineering Ltd (Project: Gauging Control)
  • Anthony Connelly - Machine Setter, Doughty Precision Engineering Ltd (Project: Machine Efficiency Improvement)
  • John Huskinson - CI Leader, Bulwell Precision Engineers Ltd (Project, Process Improvement Through a Grinding Cell)
  • Tim Mycock - Quality Engineer, Chinn Ltd (Project: Drawing & Documentation Control)

Matt Ager and Anthony Connelly also received Outstanding Achievement Awards in recognition of their own personal development through the programme.

Nasmyth Group ran its first Six Sigma programme in 2011 and has since adopted its principles and practices across the Group as a way to drive continuous improvement in all of the Group’s operational areas.

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Six Sigma was originally developed by Motorola in 1986 to identify and remove the causes of defects and errors in manufacturing and business processes. Today, it is used across a wide range of industrial sectors, typically to create a core of improvement experts who are graded by belt colour.

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This latest programme was run by Lean Six Sigma training specialists, Capella Associates, who will be running another Green Belt programme in September on which seven places have already been booked for Nasmyth Group employees.

 

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