As a company, you’re ready to begin integrating Six Sigma into your business. Now you need someone to lead your programs, an expert of the Six Sigma methodologies, tools, and techniques. You need someone who can take point in moving your company to the next level of performance.
Goals:
This workshop is structured as an interactive, practical workshop to train you, one of your company’s front line change agents, in the skills and tools of a Six Sigma Black Belt. Over the course of this workshop you will learn the basics of Six Sigma methodology and problem solving process. Then you will learn how to apply a variety of Six Sigma analytical tools to achieve overall process improvement. The instructor will also cover skills for leading Six Sigma teams and managing Green Belts. Once you’ve completed the training, you will become eligible for certification by examination by the American Society for Quality.
Description:
During the workshop you will be taught the philosophy and purpose of Six Sigma and the techniques to lead Six Sigma project teams. You will apply these skills and techniques to a work related project.
The instructor will cover a variety of techniques for operations and leadership. In order to manage and run a Six Sigma group, you will learn to define what roles Black Belts and other team members will play during the project. You will also learn how to properly define and scope Six Sigma projects and assure the ongoing success of existing projects.
This workshop will also cover how to analyze and validate problematic root causes, then how to create an effective plan to eliminate or reduce their effect. These general strategies and skills will tie into the use of the Six Sigma problem solving process known as DMAIC which you will have an opportunity to explore and apply. The course will also focus on maintaining improvements through control processes and by focusing on the design process of new products and services to ensure that they have built in Six Sigma capability.
Skills:
- Establish and benchmark process capability
- Apply key statistical tools for hypothesis testing
- Establish realistic performance tolerances
- Create realistic performance tolerances
- Understand the principles of experimentation and how to design and execute both single and multi- variable experiments
- Plan, implement, and track process control systems statistically
- Methods for gathering and measuring customer response
- Statistical tools for sampling, stratification, and hypothesis testing
- Statistical improvement and process control methods
- Cause and effect analysis and verification
- Correlation and regression analysis
- Team leadership and project management
Tools:
You will gain experience in MINITAB 14, Value Added/Non-Value Added analysis, flow charting, experiment design, Weibull analysis, and use of the Y=f(x) equation.
Format:
The workshop is formatted as four 5-day workshops over a four month period. In between each workshop session the instructor will be available to help you via telephone, email, or on site as per other arrangements on an individual basis.
Requirements:
In order to be eligible for this workshop, you must have a significant, full-scale project sponsored by your organization. In addition, you must complete all the assigned readings.
Who Should Attend:
Project Leaders, Change Agents, Technical Experts, Engineers, and Process Owners
Price:
$40,000/course plus course manuals and travel expenses for the instructor with a maximum of 20 students. Mentoring of students on Black Belt projects after the course has concluded is not included in the course price. Please contact us for information on mentoring.