Six Sigma - BLACK belt (EXTENSION)
Pre-requisite:
Note there is a pre-requisite to this course namely - Six Sigma Green Belt
Overview
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- Distance Learning: Tutor supported, five modules private study distance learning - estimated at 90 study hours. See 'The Six Sigma Package'.
Plus
Tutor guided and marked project spread over twelve weeks
Five modules delivered by a course tutor over five days, supported by a comprehensive pack of materials. See 'The Six Sigma Package'. This will necessitate attendance of the last five days of the Black Belt course, assuming that the candidate has already completed the first five days as a Green Belt.
Black belts are central to the Six Sigma programme. Often, on a full-time basis, a Black Belt will lead and deliver a number of six sigma improvement projects focused on key business processes and objectives. Project metrics may be based on cost, time, support, quality, etc. Projects are expected to generate significant savings and/or other benefits, such as increased customer satisfaction, improved processing time, better use of resources, etc. It is easy to understand why Black belts are in such demand, particularly if they can regularly and consistently achieve such benefits. Black belts are trained and skilled in; roles and responsibilities for Six Sigma, advanced application methodology, various tools and techniques, business process analysis, project and team management, and lean methods.
As a consequence of this Black Belt course the delegate would be expected to be competent practitioner, capable of coordinating and managing significant business improvement projects and driving change throughout the organisation’s systems and processes.
Course CONTENT
Five-day (Face to Face) course:
- Overview of Six Sigma; Aims, goals & background of Six Sigma, The metrics of Six Sigma
- Six Sigma Mobilisation; Six Sigma implementation, The key roles for Six Sigma success, role and responsibilities including the Black Belt role
- Six Sigma Process; The DMAIC approach
- Define; organisational goals, technicalities & scoring, defining & scoping business problems, understanding the customer, creating measurable project goals from ctq’s, process mapping, SIPOC, IDEF0, cause and effect, project selection & tracking
- Measure; FMEA and FTA, identifying & prioritising process performance risks, project and quality planning, action planning, basic statistics, attribute & variable data, understanding variation, common & special causes of variation, data accuracy, precision, linearity, stability, probability, probability theory & distributions, measuring process performance & control, how to calculate process capability, statistical process control (SPC), types of control charts, software training (Minitab or AAA) training
- Analyse; Graphical analysis: assessing process performance: pareto & measles charts, histograms, scatter plots, run charts, regression, scatter plots, confident decision making, hypothesis testing, process evaluations, application for variable data, application for attribute data, 8 wastes & standardised work, work levelling & kanban, regression analysis, simple linear regression, design of experiments
- Improve; Leading project teams, communication & change, managing team performance, creativity, facilitating team creativity, creativity & change, idea generation, idea screening/selection, managing & implementing change, improvement validation, SPC in a service setting
- Control; Solution introduction, change management, project finance measures, improvement validation, substantiating process control, recognising type of variation, control charts, capability analysis, visual process management, control/reaction plans, idea generation, screening, selection
Note only the topics on the 5 day time table are covered - See Time Table pdf format
Project (To be completed within twelve weeks) (Tutor supported and guided):
Establish project definition document, submit for approval, complete project and submit for marking |
