Lean Six Sigma Training – Black Belt Overview

 

Learning Objective

  • Deploy Lean Six Sigma expertise to lead teams and execute successful improvement projects that delivers meaningful results to your organization.

  • Collect, analyze and validate data enabling process improvement.

  • Master statistical and problem-solving approaches, and apply these to case project.

    • Deploy Lean Six Sigma approach to eliminate wastes and defect
    • Characterize and optimize processes
  • Design, simulate and execute designed experiments depicting a validated improvement

  • Establish and define process capability

  • Identify and eliminate common and special variation sources

  • Learn how to plan and implement process control measures to sustain improvements gains.

  • Communicate using Lean Six Sigma concepts.

  • Think about your organization as a collection of processes, with inputs that determine the output.

  • Relate Lean Six Sigma concepts to the overall business mission and objectives.

  • Recognize the organizational factors that are necessary groundwork for a successful Lean Six Sigma effort.

Who should attend:

  • Staff that are well versed in technical aspects of their jobs, are team leaders, and are effective project facilitators.

  • Staff seeking to bring significant business results to their organizations.

  • Participants with green belt and interested in gain more knowledge and experience.

Black Belt Course Outline

 

Week One Course Agenda

  • Overview and Foundation of Lean and Six Sigma
  • Drivers and Metrics
  • Projects
  • Theory of Constraints
  • Customer Data
  • Project Planning Tools
  • Project Documentation
  • Basic Lean Six Sigma Metrics
  • Team Dynamics and Performance
  • Overview of Measure
  • Introduction to Minitab
  • Process Mapping
  • Cause and Effect Analysis
  • FMEA
  • Probability and Statistics
  • Measurement Systems Analysis
  • Data Collection and Summary
  • Process Capability

Week Two Course Agenda

  • Analyze Phase Overview
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • ANOVA
  • Regression
  • Chi-square
  • Graphical Analysis
  • Lean Analysis Tools
  • Analyze Phase Transition
  • Improve Overview
  • Lean Improvement Tools
  • Introduction to Design of Experiments
  • DoE Golf Experiment
  • Implementation and Validation Solutions
  • Improve Phase Transistion
  • Control Phase Overview
  • Standard Work
  • Control Charting
  • Control Plans
  • Control Phase Transition

Week Three Course Agenda

  • Enterprise Leadership
  • Handling Roadblocks
  • Change Management and Team Management
  • Benchmarking
  • Performance Measures
  • Financial Measures
  • Team Management
  • Voice of the Customer
  • Charter and Tracking
  • Overview of Measure Phase
  • Data Types
  • Exploratory Data Analysis
  • Probability
  • Advanced Process Capability
  • Overview of Analyze Phase
  • Regression
  • Multivariate
  • Logistic Regression
  • Statistical vs Practical Significance
  • Sample Size
  • Central Limit Theorem and Confidence Intervals
  • ANOVA
  • Chi-Square and Contingency Tests
  • Non-Parametrics

Week Four Course Agenda

  • Overview of Improve
  • GB DOE Refresher Minitab
  • Fractional Factorial Experiments
  • Catapult
  • Split Plot Designs
  • Design for Six Sigma
  • Advanced Lean Tools
  • Review Implementation and Pilot Improvements
  • Acceptance Sampling Plans
  • Total Productive Maintenance
  • Visual Management
  • Measurement System Reanalysis
  • Control Plan
  • Sustain Improvements