Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Increase Productivity by Reducing Waste and Process Variations

Learn to manage excess waste and increase organisations productivity
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification is recognized by major brands in all the industries
Not limited to just one particular industry
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The organisations, today, seek to provide the best of services and products in a minimum time possible. To do so, it becomes a must that any kind of extra or unwanted processes must be removed. In Japanese terminology, these waste elimination processes are known as ‘muda’ which accomplishes the five tasks – sort, straighten, shine, standardise, sustain.

A Professional with a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification is one who provides these solutions at the highest level. A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt professional leads a group of Green Belt professionals to overcome any such processes and take the organisation forward. We at Pentagon, help the delegates by providing them with this course through the professionals who understand Lean Six Sigma thoroughly.

Who should take this course

Those professionals who want to improve their skills and have experience in managing Green Belt Projects can sit for the training where they will learn to manage more challenging and complex projects.

Prerequisites

The delegates who wish to acquire this certification must already hold a Lean Six Sigma Practitioner Green Belt Certification. In order to get the certification, the candidates must come with a project that they are supposed to complete after the course is over.

What Will You Learn

Having completed the Black Belt certification, the delegates will be familiar with the following concepts of Lean Six Sigma:

Define and Plan Projects for improvement including the developing charters.
Determining and managing stakeholder requirements.
Understand and improve the various qualitative and quantitative tools that are used to gauge and analyse business process.
Use Lean principles to determine customer value, determine value streams, understand flow develop pull systems and ensure perfection.
Analyse, quantify and choose the most suitable solutions.
Control business processes and understand process change through the use of SPC and change management skills
Manage Green Belt projects and resources

Key Learning Points

Courseware

Tutor Support

Course Overview

Ever since World War II, Japan had been devising ways to bring about an economic boom targeted at its recovery. Japan had been following Kaizen business model for this purpose. In 1986, the United States came up with Six Sigma with its first implementation in Motorola Inc. In the 1990’s this was adopted by General Electric also and in the early years of the 21^st Century, Six Sigma and Lean collaborated to bring about Lean Six Sigma.

Lean is a managerial concept that aims at reducing the seven kinds of waste while Six Sigma focuses on reducing processes variations of all sorts thereby helping to link the processes together tightly.

Lean Six Sigma provides various levels of certifications each providing the delegate with a higher understanding of Lean Six Sigma. These certifications are shown in the figure.

Lean Six Sigma

Those delegates who wish to sit for the exam they have taken some training from an authorised/accredited institute, or trainer, though this is not a prerequisite.Again, delegates wishing to sit for the exam must also have a real-world Lean Six Sigma project experience(this is also only recommended and not required).

On completion of the course and the exam, the delegates are certified by the International Association for Six Sigma Certification™ as Belk Belt Certified Professionals. The only third party Certification Association within the Lean Six Sigma Industry is the IASSC.

Exams

The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Exam takes place during the second Friday afternoon at the end of the course. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Exam contains 150 questions. It a closed book proctored exam that lasts for 4-hours.

Define Phase
- The Basics of Six Sigma
  - Meanings of Six Sigma
  - General History of Six Sigma & Continuous Improvement
  - Deliverables of a Lean Six Sigma Project
  - The Problem Solving Strategy Y = f(x)
  - Voice of the Customer, Business and Employee
  - Six Sigma Roles & Responsibilities
- The Fundamentals of Six Sigma
  - Defining a Process
  - Serious Quality Characteristics (CTQ’s)
  - Poor Quality Cost
  - The Pareto Analysis (80:20 rule)
  - Six Sigma - Measurement Standards
- Selecting Lean Six Sigma Projects
  - Building a Business Case & Project Charter
  - Developing Project Metrics
  - Financial Evaluation & Benefits Capture
- Understanding The Lean Enterprise
  - Lean – An Understanding and its History
  - The Combination of Lean & Six Sigma
  - The Seven Waste Elements
  - 5S
    - Straighten, Shine, Standardise, Self-Discipline, Sort

Measure Phase
- Process Definition
  - Cause & Effect / Fishbone Diagrams
  - Process Mapping, SIPOC, Value Stream Map
  - X-Y Diagram
  - Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Six Sigma Statistics
  - Basic Statistics
  - Descriptive Statistics
  - Normal Distributions & Normality
  - Graphical Analysis
- Measurement System Analysis
  - Precision & Accuracy
  - Bias, Linearity & Stability
  - Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility
  - Variable & Attribute MSA
- Process Capability
  - Capability Analysis
  - Concept of Stability
  - Attribute & Discrete Capability
  - Monitoring Techniques

Analyze Phase
- Patterns of Variation
  - Multi-Vari Analysis
  - Classes of Distributions
- Inferential Statistics
  - Understanding Inference
  - Sampling Techniques & Uses
  - Central Limit Theorem
- Hypothesis Testing
  - General Concepts & Goals of Hypothesis Testing
  - Significance; Practical vs. Statistical
  - Risk; Alpha & Beta
  - Types of Hypothesis Test
- Hypothesis Testing with Normal Data
  - 1 & 2 sample t-tests
  - 1 sample variance
  - One Way ANOVA
- Hypothesis Testing with Non-Normal Data
  - Mann-Whitney
  - Kruskal-Wallis
  - Mood’s Median
  - Friedman
  - 1 Sample Sign
  - 1 Sample Wilcoxon
  - One and Two Sample Proportion
  - Chi-Squared (Contingency Tables)

Improve Phase
- Simple Linear Regression
  - Correlation
  - Regression Equations
  - Residuals Analysis
- Multiple Regression Analysis
  - Non- Linear Regression
  - Multiple Linear Regression
  - Confidence & Prediction Intervals
  - Residuals Analysis
  - Data Transformation, Box-Cox
- Designed Experiments
  - Experiment Objectives
  - Experimental Methods
  - Experiment Design Considerations
- Full Factorial Experiments
  - 2k Full Factorial Designs
  - Linear & Quadratic Mathematical Models
  - Balanced & Orthogonal Designs
  - Fit, Diagnose Model and Center Points
- Fractional Factorial Experiments
  - Designs
  - Confounding Effects
  - Experimental Resolution

Control Phase
- Lean Controls
  - Control Methods for 5S
  - Kanban
  - Poka-Yoke (Mistake Proofing)
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)
  - Data Collection for SPC
  - I-MR Chart
  - Xbar-R Chart
  - U Chart
  - P Chart
  - NP Chart
  - Xbar-S Chart
  - CumSum Chart
  - EWMA Chart
  - Control Methods
  - Control Chart Anatomy
  - Subgroups, Impact of Variation, Frequency of Sampling
  - Center Line & Control Limit Calculations
- Six Sigma Control Plans
  - Cost Benefit Analysis
  - Elements of the Control Plan
  - Elements of the Response Plan

About Buxton

Buxton is located at an elevation of 960 feet above sea level in Derbyshire, England. Buxton is also famous as the “gateway to the Peak District National Park”.

History

The town is believed to have been settled by the Romans who lived there throughout the occupation. Later, in the 18th century, the town was developed by the Dukes of Devonshire. After about a hundred years Buxton got introduced to the Victorians who developed it for the healing properties of the waters.

Healing Properties of the Water

Buxton has been known for its geothermal springs that emanate from the River Wye. The spring waters rise at a temperature of 28oC constantly. The fifth Duke of Devonshire is said to have developed the town as a spa from his own profits.

Festivals

The Buxton Festival

The Buxton Festival was founded in 1979 and continues for a three weeks period in July. It is an opera and arts festival that runs at various venues including the Opera House. Various programs are included in this festival. During the festival, literary events, concerts and recitals are also held.

The Buxton Festival Fringe

The festival runs just alongside The Buxton Festival and is a warm-up or prelude to the Edinburg Fringe. The Buxton fringe hosts various kinds of cultural events and films in different venues around the town. In 2014 it had featured 600 such events from 150 plus different entrants.

People

Many known names belong to the town of Buxton. They include

Robert Stevenson who directed many pictures for Disney
John Buxton Hilton – British Crime Writer

Misc

Buxton hosts the Four Four Time music Festival every Feburary. It features rock, pop, folk, blues, jazz and world music. Buxton has various museums and art galleries that feature collections of local artefacts. They also display geological and archaeological samples and 19th- and 20th-century paintings.