Competences and accountability to Lead Projects.
This is the final step to become a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt subject matter of expert. He or she plays a key role in any Lean Six Sigma project implementation and is accountable for the following skills and responsibilities:
- Reports to the steering committee on the project budget and timeline management
- Deep knowledge of Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques
- Team leading and support to manage project and tools and techniques selection
- Best practices definition and deployment
- Full-time commitment for continuous improvement programs in the organization by implementing Lean Six Sigma Projects
Program
A highly customized Lean Six Sigma training program with a hands-on approach.
Training program details:
- Online Welcome Assessment. This assessment is intended to assess the initial level of knowledge of Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques and thus to customize lessons accordingly
- Training sessions (11 modules – 8 training hours per module)
- Certification Day
- Final Test: 150 multiple choice questions including theory and exercises
- Project Work submission
Tutoring program details:
- In-house and remote Lean Six Sigma Projects tutoring
See the Detailed Program
Detailed Program
Introduction to Six Sigma
- QM introduction: background – TQM – Lean – Six Sigma
- Six Sigma introduction: DMAIC DFSS (DMADV)
- Six Sigma introduction: roadmaps, roles and key players
Define & Soft Skills
- Selecting opportunities: turning customers requests into improvement project
- Kano and ServQual as VoC triggers for improvement
- DFSS approach: customer-based innovation
- QFD: connecting customer and process for DFSS
- Economical and DCF tecniques for project assessment
- Priority for Multiple Project Portfolio Managment : models and interpretation
- Time and team management
- Conflict management: leadership and motivation
- Project Management: techniques to effectively plan and track projects
- Effective presentation: hints to manage the information, keep the focus and catch the attention
- KPIs and KAIs: selection and dynamics
Presentation and discussion of a real case stu
Measure
- Effective and productive data collection plan
- Statistical basics for industrial use and statistics model
- Central limit theorem: the key for sampling and interpretation of data
- Box-Cox transformations
- Measurement System Analysis and Gauge R&R for variable data
- Gage R&R for attribute data: hands on
Presentation and discussion of a real case study: measurement systems in terms of operations and financial returns *
Analyse
- Qualitative and quantitative advanced tools to support RCA and DDD
- FMEA: effective risk management
- Hypotesis test with normal and non normal population
- ANOVA (Analysis of variance)
- Regression model and its validation
- Time series analysis and forecasting models
Presentation and discussion of a real case study of FMEA and ANOVA*
Improve
- DoE basics recall
- Scheduling and selecting DoE plans: effective strategies and effective output analysis
- How to plan and implement a fractional DoE
- Introduction to Robust Design Plans, Surface Response Methods and EVOP
- Innovative methodologies to support idea generation management
- Solution ranking and selection
Presentation and discussion of a real case study: improvements implementing or not DoE technique *
Control
- How to drive a good standard introduction
- How to monitor performances and develop control charts
- How to define control charts for continuous data
- How to define control charts for attributes
- Evolutive Control Charts: CUSUM and EWMA
Presentation and discussion of a real case study : inactivity towards changes , changes, control charts *
* Case Studies are introduced and discussed during training sessions
Certification requirements
In order to earn the certification is required to:
1. Attend at least 80% of all scheduled training sessions
2. Pass the Final Online Test
3. Submit a final Project Work
To enroll and attend a Black Belt certification program it is a prerequisite to have a Green Belt Certification or a comparable expertise, to be previously assessed by a free Assessment