Lean Six Sigma Practitioners Black Belt (inc exam)

Overview

Lean and Six Sigma, both proven business improvement approaches, provide businesses with the ability to maximise customer, employee and shareholder value by minimising process variation and waste. This ten day course provides the experienced Green Belt with the necessary tools and techniques to manage improvement resources to deliver major projects. This hand-on learning experience develops both the delegate's technical knowledge and personal skills. The course uses a blend of theory and practical exercises to ensure that participants have the confidence and capability to deliver more complex business improvement projects and transformations.

The examination, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, is taken on the final day.

Please note - to book this course you need to book on the individual weeks required.

• Lean Six Sigma Practitioners Black Belt - week 1
• Lean Six Sigma Practitioners Black Belt - week 2 (inc exam)

Download your certification PDF and view the exam requirements page for more information.

This ten day course, ran as two 5 day sessions, will enable delegates to become self-sufficient process improvement practitioners with the capability to analyse opportunities and deliver solutions:

• Scope improvement projects including the development of charters.
• Determining and managing stakeholder requirements.
• Further develop their in-depth understanding of qualitative and quantitative tools to measure and analyse business process.
• Apply lean principles to determine customer value, determine value streams, understand flow develop pull systems and ensure perfection.
• Identify, quantify and select the most suitable solutions.
• Control business processes and understand process change through the use of SPC and change management skills
• Manage and mentor Green Belt projects and resources

Prerequisites

Experienced Green Belts who want to enhance and apply their skills to larger more complex projects. Delegates must have completed Lean Six Sigma Practitioner Green Belt (Part 2) (LSSPGB2) or equivalent. Delegates should, ideally, have a project identified to complete post-training (this is required for certification).

Course Outline.

• Stakeholder analysis and mapping
• Communications plan
• Kano analysis
• Critical to quality
• Quality Function Deployment
• Project management and tracking
• Work measurement, determining appropriate business metrics, Cost of Poor Quality
• Discrete data measurement and its application
• Statistical concepts and Confidence intervals
• Process capability
• Focusing the problem; cause and effect analysis, and FMEA
• Hypothesis testing
• ANOVA
• SPAN
• Data manipulation
• Simple, multi-linear, best-subsets and logistic regression analysis
• MSA theory and MSA in Minitab
• Sampling theory, plan, size and risk
• Design of experiments overview, techniques and pitfalls
• Lean metrics, Value, Value Steam Analysis, Flow and Pull
• Kaizen events
• Level scheduling
• 5S Analysis
• Creative Thinking
• Lean solutions
• Solution assessment
• Benefit realisation plans and validation, piloting solutions
• Control chart theory, creating control charts and speciality control charts
• Response Surface Analysis
• Roles and responsibilities
• Facilitation skills

Certification

Once a delegate has satisfactorily completed the exam and demonstrated that they have led and completed an appropriate project they become a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. - If delegates fail the exam then they will have to re-sit the examination on a Friday afternoon at a later date; there is no charge for up to 3 re-sits. Delegates do not need to re-sit the course in its entirety. A certificate will be provided to show the course has been completed and the exam passed.

Examinations

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt exam is taken during the afternoon of the last Friday (week 2) -