Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training & Certification

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training Program

This Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training is a structured and disciplined management method based on process improvement targeting quality. We will teach you a method that aims at reducing the risk of going outside of the client’s expectations by delivering perfect products and services on a consistent basis. It will focus on all types of processes owing to organization complexity and process internalization.

You can divide the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training into 3 parts. The lean management part (2 days) of the training refers to value preservation focusing on eliminating non-value added (waste) resources or activities. The Six Sigma part is a set of techniques and tools used for process improvement. The Black Belt Six Sigma specialization part is focused on specific services and industry tools and methodologies.

Lean Management (Business Game)

Kicking off with a little story about Lean principles and TPS (Toyota Production System) shows you the Eastern way of thinking in improving processes. The two days are focused on a Lego Serious Play Production Plant Business Game which will help you to understand Lean tools like the Value Stream Map. During this part you will understand value preservation focusing on eliminating non-value added resources or activities (waste) and a set of techniques and tools used for process improvement.

Days 1 and 2 – Lean Management module

• History and positioning of Lean Six Sigma
• DMAIC and Kaizen Event method
• Process capability: cycle time and Takt time
• Work in process, stocks, waiting time and Little’s law
• Value Stream Map (VSM)
• Load chart
• Analysis of added value and elimination of wastes
• Process Cycle Efficiency and Overal Process Efficiency
• First Pass Yield and Rolled Throughput Yield
• Theory of constraints and line balancing
• Continuous flow
• Pull flow and kanban
• Visual management, poka-yoke, 5S
• SMED
• Heijunka, dynamic capacity adjustment and standardization
• Maximum Work in process (WIPmax)
• Kata and Short Interval Control
• Toyota Way
• Complex flow analysis and process mining
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Advanced operational optimization (self-study or one extra day training):
  • Capacity management in the presence of variability
  • Inventory optimization and sizing of kanban systems

Serious game: the group experiments in the classroom the Lean improvement method (Kaizen Event) on a role play simulating an end-to-end business process (receipt of orders, processing, billing, shipping).

Day 3 – 4 Six Sigma Yellow Belt module

• History and positioning of Lean Six Sigma
• Deployment of Lean Six Sigma (study of the LSSx.0^TM book):
  • Overall governance
  • Process Management System
  • Ambition and roadmap
  • Lean Six Sigma organization
  • Roles & responsibilities (Champion, Sponsor, Process Owner, Belts)
  • Project selection and follow-up process
  • Expected benefits
• Typology of DMAIC problems and projects (study of the LSSx.0^TM book):
• Define:
  • Project launch
  • SIPOC
  • The 3 voices
  • Critical To Satisfaction
  • Kano model
  • Problem statement, project objective and opportunity
  • Project Charter v1
• MAIC method of solving simple statistical problems
• Measure:
  • Problem metric
  • Measurement plan
  • Measurement system validation : precision and accuracy (agreement analysis)
  • Defective rate
  • Project Charter v2
• Analysis:
  • Analysis of Pareto
  • Five Why’s
  • Project Charter v3
• Improve:
  • Search and selection of the solution
  • Business Case
  • Implementation of the solution
  • Improvement validation
• Control:
  • Dashboard for monitoring the performance of the process
  • Response plan
• Critical study of a case of DMAIC project

Days 5 to 7 – Six Sigma Green Belt module

• MAIC method of solving complex statistical problems
• Measure
  • Basic statistics and data types
  • Project Y and definition of the defect
  • Measurement plan
  • Measurement system validation: gage R&R and linearity and bias study
  • Sample collection and data validation
  • Analysis of the Voice of the Process
  • Process capability
  • Project Charter v2
• Analysis
  • Analysis process of Y = f (X’s)
  • Ishikawa diagram
  • Introduction to inferential statistics (notions of confidence intervals)
  • Studying the influence on variation, central tendency, proportions and study of covariance: contingency tables, graphical analysis (boxplots, scatter plots), correlation coefficient and analysis of confidence intervals
  • Project Charter v3
• Improve
  • Statistical validation of the improvement
• Control:
  • Statistical process control
  • I-MR, Xbar-R, Xbar-S, P and NP, U and C control charts
  • Response plan
• Critical analysis of case studies of DMAIC projects

Days 8 to 10 – Six Sigma Black Belt module

• Measurement System Analysis
  • Attribute agreement analysis : Kappa test and Kendall’s test
  • Gage R&R : ANOVA method and measurement system resolution
  • Linearity (regression method) and bias test
• Hypothesis testing and regression analysis
  • Introduction to hypothesis tests
  • Normality test
  • Studying the influence on variation: tests for equal variance
  • Studying the influence on central tendency: ANOVA test, Mood’s median test
  • Pearson correlation test, simple linear regression analysis
  • Chi-2 association test
• Design of Experiments (DoE)
  • 2-levels factorial designs
  • Résolution of factorial design
  • Number of replications
  • Execution of the experiments
  • Analysis of the main and interaction effects
  • Pareto of the effects
  • Response surface
  • Response optimizer

Days 11 to 13 – Six Sigma Master Black Belt module

• Probabilistic capability analysis
  • Expected defective rate in normal, non-normal continuous, Poisson and binomial distributions
  • Data transformation (Box-Cox, Johnson)
• Hypothesis tests and regression analysis
  • Power and sample size
  • 2-sample t test, Mann-Whitney test
  • 2 variances test, Friedman’s test
  • 2 proportions test
  • 2-sample Poisson rate test
  • 1-sample t test
  • 1-standard deviation test
  • 1 proportion test
  • 1-sample Poisson rate test
  • Logistic regression
  • Multiple and general regression
• Statistical Process Control
  • Effectiveness of a control chart
  • Time-weighted charts

Serious game:

• In-class experimentation of the method on a service level improvement case (paper flying machines).
• Classroom design of experiments on a problem of optimizing the geometry of paper flying machines
• Determination of the capability of a screw production process
• Determination of the capability of a printing process

Utilisation du logiciel Minitab 19.

Exam

Optional : Practical Certification

Our Offer

Our offer consists a 10-days for 4450€ (ex VAT) training to prepare you to pass the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt exam. Furthermore it contains the handbook, reading materials, exam, certification, beverages and light lunch. (Training dates: see below)

Our Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training uses teaching methods which focus on the mental, physical and emotional development of participants. Their contents are specifically tailored to the training goals and the participants. Our teaching methods are both participatory and collaborative, involving problem solving, role-playing and serious games. They offer motivating challenges and stimulate participants to invest in their training. Subscription or Quote

Context and positioning:

• All sectors (services and industry)
• Need for a scientific and structured approach of complex problems solving and advanced decisions-making process (operations and business decisions)
• There is a need for quality optimization of products or services
• Implementation of a Lean Six Sigma program in an organisation

Target Audience :

• Continuous Improvement Project Managers (all sectors)
• Quality Engineers
• R&D Engineers
• Quality Managers
• Operations Managers (all sectors)

Who are our clients?

We partner with clients from the private, public, and non-profit sectors in Belgium and abroad to develop their Lean Six Sigma skills, address their most critical quality and process improvement issues. Our customized consulting, learning and development approach implements the Lean Six Sigma insights therefore at all levels of your organization. So this ensures you to achieve sustainable continuous improvement in your efficiency, quality, people, cost, customer satisfaction and revenue issues.

Our service extends beyond our work: we promote the exchange of expertise between our consultants and your organization. We believe that co-creation between us is key to the success of your operational excellence challenges. Through the development of these synergies, we ensure your people to master Lean Six Sigma philosophy and to run it afterwards.

Lean Six Sigma Belgium prepare you to pass various types of certifications ABPMP® (175€), LSSB (175€), ASQ (see website) or IASSC™. Please contact us to select the right certification and for further information.

70 hours in classroom + homeworking and book reading LSSx.0^TM.

Our training efficiency is also high because of :

• high profiles of the attendees 
• small groups (max. 12 people)
• pedagogy used (teaching skills, practical cases and business games in classroom)
• learning tests and individual remediation