Project Consortium

Symbol BV
Enschede, the Netherlands
www.symbolbv.nl

Symbol BV is a Training and Consultancy company in production and process improvement methodologies as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraint. People working at Symbol have an extended experience in supporting companies with Process Improvement, Lean Coaching and reliability Engineering.

Its mission is to support companies to become more competitive by reducing operational costs, shorten lead times and improve quality on products and services.

ROC of Twente
Hengelo, the Netherlands
www.rocvantwente.nl

ROC of Twente is an enterprising Regional Training Centre for Vocational Education and Training as well as Adult Education. Its mission is to pass on knowledge, expertise and learning skills to VET students (around 20.000) and adults (around 12.500) to optimize their personal and professional development.

To achieve these goals, ROC van Twente offers training, educational tracks and courses at all levels. These include secondary vocational education and training (VET) as well as secondary education and adult education to tailor-made courses, flexible educational programs, for SME’s. Cooperation, Customer-orientation and market-orientation are focal points in the educational policy.

INstitute Polytechnique de Grenoble
Grenoble, France
www.inpg.fr

Grenoble Institute of Technology is a public sector technology university with more than 5,300 students and 1,100 teaching and research fellows, admin and technical staff. More than 1,000 engineering degrees, 330 research masters and 170 doctorates are awarded each year, along with a hundred internal qualifications.

Grenoble Institute of Technology has an international reach and partners with research and higher education establishments in more than 53 countries.

I.S.C.N. GesmbH
Graz, Austria
www.iscn.com
ISCN is a partner for process improvement and has been founded in 1994 in Ireland with a software development office in Austria (Graz).

ISCN is the coordinator of the EQN (European Qualification Network) and technical director of EU Certificates with the objective to define an ECQA (European Certification and Qualification Association) with a set of quality criteria and common certification rules, which is supported by training organizations from 18 European countries.

University of Twente
Enschede, the Netherlands
www.utwente.nl

The University of Twente is an entrepreneurial research university in the Netherlands. It offers education and research in areas ranging from public policy studies and applied physics to biomedical technology.

The objective of the Faculty of Engineering Technology is training and coaching in design of manufacturing facilities and production, planning and control as well as research in these fields.

The Faculty incorporated Lean Six Sigma Green Belt as a Master subject for its students.

EMIRAcle
Brussels, Belgium
www.emiracle.eu

EMIRAcle stands for ‘European Manufacturing and Innovation Research Association’. It is a non-profit organization of 20 research laboratories in the extended Europe who have bundled their expertise in the manufacturing and innovation domain in order to provide it to industrialists as an international network of collaboration partners.

EMIRAcle offers to act as a partner in collaborative research and innovation projects in the form of a number of specific services and products. The EMIRAcle association has collaborations with numerous national and international partners, who have expressed their need for the proposed Lean Six Sigma Job Roles and a corresponding international training and certification scheme.

Associates
Associates are external companies, institutes and persons outside the project consortium. The associates are experienced in applying Lean Six Sigma at the highest level and have been consulted on determining the skill set. >>List of associates