PCI Group’s Quality Assurance Manager Cindy Grano Earns Her Six Sigma Green Belt
Friday, December 8th, 2017
This certification is a milestone for Grano and PCI, in their journey to implement Lean and drive greater operating efficiencies throughout the organization. With this achievement, Grano becomes the first member of the PCI team to obtain certification. Royce Colvin, PCI’s File Processing Coordinator, also has his Green Belt, which he earned prior to joining PCI. Additionally, two more members of the PCI management team members are working toward certification and expect to be completed within the next 90 days.
Lean manufacturing, often simply referred to as “lean”, is a systematic method for waste minimization within a manufacturing system without sacrificing productivity. Lean manufacturing makes obvious what adds value, by reducing everything else (which is not adding value). The Six Sigma Green Belt designation signifies that those who hold the certification are skilled in assessing and calculating short term and long-term Sigma value of their project’s process and the mean and standard deviation of their process data sets. “Using the skills that I have learned, I’m looking forward to training our PCI quality team to accelerate process improvements and enhance the quality of what we do, said Grano.”
PCI Group began its journey to implement Lean almost 2 years ago and has made significant progress since then. We have implemented over 700 quality improvements in our operations since initial adoption. We started with our production workflow where we made and continue to gain significant processing efficiency. Another critical area for us was reorganizing our approach to inventory management by increasing inventory turns, reducing waste and eliminating obsolescence. “Gaining this certification has been especially helpful and gratifying to me and I look forward to passing along what I have learned to our quality team. As the leader of our quality group, it’s my mission to ensure our quality is the very best in the industry for our clients.”, said Grano.