Lab learning: day 5

I cant say much about the lab, coz today I spent the morning visiting Freescale, the chip maker. When I got to the lab, everyone was busy syndicating with several parties, and debriefing was postponed to Monday.
In Freescale I found an American company more Japanese than the japanese. They are in the process of installing super 5S, and the MD is very committed, making the Wednesday walkabout the most important matter. The quality meeting is the top meeting, and latecomers are fined.
They are a 6 sigma company, that has experienced a sigma shift, meaning, instead of 3.4 defects per million, they have achieved 0.3 defects per million.
In doing this they added 2 belts, white (awareness) for all staff, yellow (tools and techniques) for  others. There are online assessments writhe end of   each module.
Green belts have to produce 2 projects to become black belts, while master black belts are selected by a global community of practitioners.
They have several approaches to problem solving:  dmaic for optimization, dmadv for design and Ford's 8D for crisis and customer complaints.
Amazing, eh?