Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training

Learning Objectives:

• 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.

Prerequisites:

• A defined, management-approved business improvement project that provides a business impact to your business of $100,000 or greater. The knowledge and skills learned in this training course will be applied to this project.
• Basic statistics primer or understanding of basic statistics. Basic college-level algebra is helpful to understand statistical concepts.
• Minitab 18 Statistical Software is required and must be provided by the participant (may be purchased at a discount from ASQ).
• Devote at least 40 percent of your time at your work environment to work on your project.
• PC laptop computers are required and must be provided by the participant with the following minimum requirements:

1. Operating system: 32-bit and 64-bit versions Windows 7 or higher
2. Memory – 512 MB (minimum); 1 GB or higher (recommended)
3. Processor – Pentium 4 or equivalent
4. USB port
5. Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher (with all current service releases)
6. Microsoft Office 2000 or higher (with all current service releases)
7. Adobe® Reader - Version 5.0 or higher required for course materials
8. Administrator privileges to install ASQ course software at class (recommended)

Who Should Attend?

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.