Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

This 20-days Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training provide deeper dive into the Lean and Six Sigma methodologies and bring the participant to the level of Black Belt to lead project teams to achieve breakthrough business improvements for their organizations. The Lean Six Sigma methodology is a systematic application that can be applied in service-based, transactional, production-based, and healthcare environments and is focused on achieving significant business results and increased customer satisfaction.

Who Should Attending

This course is designed for individuals from diverse organizational functions—operations, quality, logistics, finance, production, engineering, and other staff functions seeking to bring significant business results to their organizations. Participants are traditionally well versed in technical aspects of their jobs, are team leaders, and are effective project facilitators

Learning Objectives
Outline

Achieve significant improvements in critical business processes.
Apply statistical and problem solving tools to an improvement project brought to class on the first day.
Reduce process variation.
Eliminate waste and defects by applying lean and Six Sigma.
Collect, analyze, and quantify data that enable process improvements.
Learn how to execute the Six Sigma methodology.Establish and define process capability.
Identify and eliminate dominant process variation sources.
Characterize and optimize processes by computing and applying statistical techniques.
Design, simulate, and execute designed experiments that depict validated improvement.
Learn how to plan and implement process control to hold project gains.

Week One Course Agenda

1. 1. Overview and Foundation of Lean and Six Sigma
  2. Drivers and Metrics
  3. Projects
  4. Theory of Constraints
  5. Customer Data
  6. Project Planning Tools
  7. Project Documentation
  8. Basic Lean Six Sigma Metrics
  9. Team Dynamics and Performance
  10. Overview of Measure
  11. Introduction to Minitab
  12. Process Mapping
  13. Cause and Effect Analysis
  14. FMEA
  15. Probability and Statistics
  16. Measurement Systems Analysis
  17. Data Collection and Summary
  18. Process Capability

Week Two Course Agenda

1. 1. Analyze Phase Overview
  2. Hypothesis Testing
  3. ANOVA
  4. Regression
  5. Chi-square
  6. Graphical Analysis
  7. Lean Analysis Tools
  8. Analyze Phase Transition
  9. Improve Overview
  10. Lean Improvement Tools
  11. Introduction to Design of Experiments
  12. DoE Golf Experiment
  13. Implementation and Validation Solutions
  14. Improve Phase Transistion
  15. Control Phase Overview
  16. Standard Work
  17. Control Charting
  18. Control Plans
  19. Control Phase Transition

Week Three Course Agenda

1. 1. Enterprise Leadership
  2. Handling Roadblocks
  3. Change Management and Team Management
  4. Benchmarking
  5. Performance Measures
  6. Financial Measures
  7. Team Management
  8. Voice of the Customer
  9. Charter and Tracking
  10. Overview of Measure Phase
  11. Data Types
  12. Exploratory Data Analysis
  13. Probability
  14. Advanced Process Capability
  15. Overview of Analyze Phase
  16. Regression
  17. Multivariate
  18. Logistic Regression
  19. Statistical vs Practical Significance
  20. Sample Size
  21. Central Limit Theorem and Confidence Intervals
  22. ANOVA
  23. Chi-Square and Contingency Tests
  24. Non-Parametrics

Week Four Course Agenda

1. Overview of Improve
2. Design of Experiment
3. Fractional Factorial Experiments
4. Catapult
5. Split Plot Designs
6. Design for Six Sigma
7. Advanced Lean Tools
8. Review Implementation and Pilot Improvements
9. Acceptance Sampling Plans
10. Total Productive Maintenance
11. Visual Management
12. Measurement System Reanalysis
13. Control Plan
14. Sustain Improvements