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 Liverpool

Liverpool

With estimated population of 478,580 (in 2015), Liverpool is the city in the North West of England. It is the fifth largest metropolitan area in the UK with more than 2.24 million people in 2011. Liverpool City Council is the local authority and is the most populous local government district. Liverpool is located near Mersey Estuary. It turns out to be a borough in 1207 and a city in 1880. It became a county borough independent of Lancashire in 1889.

Government

There are two types of government in Liverpool i.e. the Mayor and Local Council. They are also the stakeholders in the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, the European Parliament and The National Government. Unitary Authority officially governed Liverpool as when Merseyside Country Council was disabled civil functions were returned to a district borough level. However, services like Police and Fire and Recuse Service are still run at a county-wide level.

Economy

Locating at the centre of one of the two core economics, Liverpool has one of the largest economies in the UK. The GVA of Liverpool in 2006 was £7,626 million that was above North West average. Since the mid-1990s, the economy has been very strong with its GVA 71.8% in between 1995 and 2006 and employment 12% between 1998 and 2006. The economy of Liverpool is dominated by both public and private service sector industries. Over 60percentage of employment in the city was in the public administration, banking, finance, health, insurance and education sectors.

Landmarks

The history of Liverpool contains a variety of architectural styles (16th century Tudor building to modern-day architectures). The present buildings are of the period when the city attains powers in the British Empire. The history of Liverpool contains a variety of architectural styles (16th century Tudor building to modern-day architectures). The present buildings are of the period when the city attains powers in the British Empire. Also, the city has several public sculptures. The English Heritage describes the richness of architecture.