{"id":111,"date":"2008-04-02T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-04-02T04:00:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T10:00:25","slug":"green-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Green Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you have heard of Six Sigma?<\/p>\n<p>Basically its a practice of improving processes by eliminating defects &#8211; usually in manufacturing related areas.<br \/>\n(If you want more information on what exactly it is you can visit: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Six_Sigma\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Six_Sigma<\/a>.)<br \/>\nMany large corporations encourage and support employees getting trained in the practices of Six Sigma. Not only is it a benefit to the company, but having Six Sigma training and\/or certification on your resume is great. It is a highly respected program.<\/p>\n<p>Last Fall, Dave finished his Green Belt project in Six Sigma at DuPont, and was recently awarded this lovely certificate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04.02_greenBelt.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To earn his Green Belt, Dave had to propose and implement a project at work that improved current processes by a certain margin.  I believe that the project also had to help save the company money. In any case, according to wikipedia, a Green Belt is someone who takes up the Six Sigma implementation along with their other job responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>I made him let me take a picture before he took it back to work.<\/p>\n<p>Good work Dave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you have heard of Six Sigma? Basically its a practice of improving processes by eliminating defects &#8211; usually in manufacturing related areas. (If you want more information on what exactly it is you can visit: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Six_Sigma.) Many large corporations encourage and support employees getting trained in the practices of Six Sigma. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-dave","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}