Course overview
Six Sigma is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was introduced by engineer Bill Smith while working at Motorola in 1986. Jack Welch made it central to his business strategy at General Electric in 1995. Today it is used in many industrial sectors.
The term Six Sigma originated from terminology associated with statistical modelling of manufacturing processes. The maturity of a manufacturing process can be described by a sigma rating indicating its yield or the percentage of defect-free products it creates. A six sigma process is one in which 99.99966% of all opportunities to produce some feature of a part are statistically expected to be free of defects (3.4 defective features per million opportunities). Motorola set a goal of “six sigma” for all of its manufacturing operations, and this goal became a byword for the management and engineering practices used to achieve it.
This certification course will prepare you to successfully lead and execute Lean Six Sigma projects, perform Six Sigma analysis and use the DMAIC (Define Measure Analyse Improve Control) methodology.
It is comprised of professionally narrated e-Learning modules, interactive quizzes, tests and exams. All delivered through a system that you will have access to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What you'll learn
- Become a key stakeholder in leading, and implementing Lean Six Sigma projects in your organization to Black Belt level
- Understand Six Sigma and DMAIC Methodology to Black Belt level
- Describe how to identify an improvement project in the Define phase to Black Belt level
- Explain how to measure process and product in the Measure phase to Black Belt level
- Perform data analysis and hypothesis testing in the Analyze phase to Black Belt level
- Identify the possible improvement actions for the performance of variations in the Improve phase to Black Belt level
- Define efficient operating levels for inputs and outputs in the Control phase to Black Belt level
- Identify the voice of customers, their requirements and needs
- Understand their role in the success deployment
- Understand how to develop a strategy for Six Sigma approach
- Apply the DMAIC process to business issues to Black Belt level
Recognition
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
Duration study load
- 12 months access to course material
- 71 hours of online training material
- 30 hours supplementary course reading material
- 5 hours of exercises
- 3 hours of quizzes/tests
- 35 hours self-study/revision
- Total duration: 144 hours
Course features
- Text and illustrated course material
- Supplementary training manual
- Downloadable study textbooks that mirror the course material
- Test questions
- Test questions resources
- Exercise files
- Minitab example files
- An IASSC Six Sigma Black Belt sample test paper
What is the difference between Six Sigma Green and Black Belts?
About the certification
Who's it for?
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt is most beneficial for organizations that encourage employees to take up Quality projects and ensure efficiency in all business/industry processes. This certification is most suited for:
- Quality and process managers, system managers, analysts, auditors, engineers and executives who need to have a thorough understanding of Six Sigma to a Black Belt level
- Production managers, production supervisors, and customer service managers
- People wanting a thorough understanding of Six Sigma thinking and techniques
- Consultants who want to incorporate Six Sigma Black Belt into their service offerings
- Professionals working in support functions like finance, purchase, sales, marketing, training, recruitment, operations, IT support, travel, etc.
Delivery
All courses are online and self-paced, meaning you do it in your own home, in your own time, at your own pace. Each lesson is pre-recorded allowing you to pause, fast-forward, skip sections, or go back to another lesson if you need to. The lessons are multi-media based, which means video and audio are used to teach the lessons. Most lessons are also interactive, prompting the learner to participate. This might involve answering on-screen questions, participating in tasks, and using simulators as if you were using the real software program.
Subjects
- DEFINE – Course Structure
- DEFINE – Introduction to Six Sigma
- DEFINE – Steps and Tools
- DEFINE – The Cost of Poor Quality
- DEFINE- Six Sigma Metrics
- DEFINE – Lean
- DEFINE – Project Charter
- DEFINE – Test Questions
- DEFINE – Test Question Resources
- DEFINE – Exercise File
- MEASURE – Course Structure
- MEASURE – Process Mapping Overview
- MEASURE – Types of Process Map
- MEASURE – Inputs to the Process
- MEASURE – Cause and Effect Diagrams
- MEASURE – X-Y Matrix
- MEASURE – FMEA
- MEASURE – Basic Statistics Part 1
- MEASURE – Basic Statistics Part 2
- MEASURE – Graphs
- And more!
- ANALYSE – Course Structure
- ANALYSE – Overview
- ANALYSE – Multi-vari analysis
- ANALYSE – Hypothesis Testing
- ANALYSE – Continuous Data – Comparing Two Samples
- ANALYSE – Continuous Data – Comparing More than Two Samples
- ANALYSE – Continuous Data – Testing a Sample Against a Standard
- ANALYSE – Tests for Non-continuous Output Data
- ANALYSE – Test for Equal Variance
- ANALYSE – Regression Analysis
- And more!
- IMPROVE – Course Structure
- IMPROVE – Concept Generation
- IMPROVE – Implementation
- IMPROVE – Test Questions
- CONTROL – Course Structure and Overview
- CONTROL – Final Capability
- CONTROL – Control Plans
- CONTROL – Test Questions
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