Design For Six Sigma – Green Belt
Learn to execute successful Design For Six Sigma Projects and achieve measurable results.
Six Sigma Green Belt education
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Green Belt is an education in the Six Sigma methodology. A customer, fact, and data-driven approach to improving quality within an organisation.
Education as a Green Belt provides new perspectives for your work and makes you a sought-after employee who can achieve measurable results for your business. You can lead DFSS development projects based on the IDOV model and have a mindset that enables you to make well-considered decisions rooted in valid data, process knowledge, and a focus on human relations.
You will gain an overview of the different Six Sigma methods in the toolkit necessary to develop services, products, and processes that can meet Six Sigma quality levels.
Who is it aimed at?
This DFSS Green Belt education is for you who want to learn a structured and data-driven optimisation approach, where you acquire the competencies to be a project leader for DFSS projects and local development initiatives.
More and more companies are realising that the Six Sigma method can help to increase customer satisfaction by improving the quality of products, processes, and services, thereby also improving the bottom line. This means that companies that utilise Six Sigma thinking can achieve significant quality improvements, save resources, and strengthen competitiveness.
Content of the DFSS Green Belt education
Duration: 13 days
The education will focus on DFSS and the tools naturally linked to the method. In the Green Belt education, we delve into topics such as Sigma statistics, hypothesis testing, and control.
The teaching takes place in modules, divided according to the individual steps in the IDOV model, where each step has its own tools and methods attached.
The most relevant methods and tools will be explained in combination with case studies and associated exercises, giving you the opportunity to test the theory in practice.
All participants in the education will also work with their own specific development / optimisation projects, where they will receive coaching and guidance along the way. In this way, you can create results for your business already during the education.
The DMAIC model
We review Six Sigma's basic structure and give you a thorough introduction to the DMAIC model (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control), which is one of the most commonly used approaches in optimisation projects for existing processes, products, and services.
We review, among other things:
- The DMAIC model
- Process description
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
- Project basis
Identify
This phase is about identifying your customers' needs and converting them into technical requirements.
Here are some of the aspects we cover:
- Project basis
- Process overview
- Customer focus
- "The voice of the customer"
- Identifying customer requirements
- Kano Model
- Affinity Diagram – KJ analysis
- QFD (Quality Function Deployment)
- Implementation of Quality Function - Translate customer requirements into design requirements
- Learn what you can from the defect
- Basic statistics: e.g., Pareto, histogram, box plot, time-series plot
- Measure the positive process
Design
The design phase emphasises your Critical to Quality criteria (CTQs), where you identify functional requirements, develop potential design concepts, evaluate various alternatives and select the most suitable based on preliminary analyses, tests, and risk assessments.
We review, among other things:
- QFD (Quality Function Deployment)
- P-Diagram
- Develop Conceptual Solutions
- Design FMEA & Process FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)
- Select the Best Concepts
- Measurement System Analysis
- Confidence Intervals (statistics)
- Hypothesis Testing
Optimise
Optimise and refine your design. In this phase, you assess tolerances, predict performance, and test alternative designs and design elements.
We go through:
- Simple Linear Regression
- Multiple Regression
- Multi-Vari Analysis (diagrams)
- Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Full Factorial DOE
- Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA)
- Determine optimal targets and tolerances for X's - Monte Carlo Simulation
- Error-proofing
- Fishbone Diagram
- 5 x Whys
Verify
Verify that the design achieves its intended function and meets customer needs.
The verification phase consists of testing and final approval of the design. Prototypes are tested for performance, error states, reliability and any potential risks before final approval.
- Complete "Design Verification Plan" (DVP)
- Complete “Design/Process FMEA”
- Design Validation
- Process Stability and Capability
- Robust Tolerance Analysis
- Assessment Test
Project, Exam & Certification
Project and report
To become a certified DFSS Green Belt, you need to have completed a real IDOV development project in your own organisation. This strengthens your learning, you gain practical experience, and your business solves an important issue. The project must be completed within 12 months from the start of your training, and concludes with the submission of a project report and a verbal defence of the task.
The report is a detailed dissertation that includes reflections on the process and the results you have achieved. In addition, you must be able to document the application of various Design for Six Sigma problem-solving tools.
Coaching
You have the opportunity for ongoing sparring and guidance from Six Sigma coaches with extensive practical experience and insight into the implementation of DFSS projects. Your coach assists you in ensuring progress in your project. You will typically spend 3-4 hours of personal coaching per IDOV phase, where you get targeted help for your specific issue (the hours cannot be accumulated, but should be used continuously). With this valuable support, it is easier for you to keep track of the thread through the IDOV phases and create the best possible project yield.
Certification
The certification is based on your completed project. The certification is a recognition that you have proven you can convert the theory into practice and create significant results. Please note that there is no guarantee of passing. But we will of course not set you for the exam unless we are confident that you are well prepared for it.
Exam
After the last teaching session, there will be a written exam (multiple choice test), where you need to score at least 70% correct to pass. After that, the completion of your practical project, project report, and verbal defence await before you can be finally certified.
Presentation and Celebration
You will present your project report to your teacher and an external examiner. Your leader and project group are welcome to participate as certification is also a small celebration, where your and the project's results are acknowledged and celebrated. This is a milestone in your career!
The Practical
Duration: 13 days of physical teaching divided into 5 modules, spread over a period of 6 months.
Time for instruction: Typically from 8.00 to 16.00
Teaching form: The training will primarily take place as physical group instruction
Class size: We have small classes with a maximum of 12 participants. You follow the same class throughout the entire course
Preparation: Expect homework between instructional modules
Outcome – What competences does it provide?
After completing the education, you will have learned what it takes to ensure robustness in the design of new products, services, and processes. Your learning will occur through both theory and practical exercises, where you practice the use of key Six Sigma tools.
You will have the competencies to lead projects and local development initiatives, conduct a full IDOV project, independently analyse process data, perform sampling, test hypotheses, and build control plans with accompanying statistical process control.
- Use data-driven development tools to ensure robustness in your daily work and not only in connection with projects.
- Understand the importance of data and use data analyses for validation.
- You will learn to use different optimisation tools for projects as well as in your daily work.
- Use statistical process control (SPC) as a management tool in production and administration.
- Perform structured cause analyses with IDOV and statistical methods.
- Apply different process analysis tools for cause analysis and new process design.
- Conduct idea development, develop solutions, and evaluate cost-benefit.
- Conduct and implement improvements, including relevant control and response plan.
Our Other Design for Six Sigma Trainings
White
Belt
Design for Six Sigma White Belt
Get a short but thorough introduction to Design for Six Sigma and the associated tools, so you are aware of and understand how a DFSS project works.
Duration: 1 day of teaching
Yellow
Belt
Design for Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Gain insight into the fundamental principles of Design for Six Sigma, so you can become an active team member in DFSS projects, and assist Green Belts and Black Belts.
Duration: 3 days of teaching
Black
Belt
Design for Six Sigma Black Belt
Achieve expert level and become capable of conducting complex cross-organisational DFSS projects to ensure greater robustness in products, services, and processes. Typically a 100% resource.
Duration: 19 days of teaching + work on two specific projects
Master Black
Belt
Design for Six Sigma Master Black Belt
You will become the expert who, with great professionalism, can solve critical and complicated quality challenges, take on a strategic leadership role in the organisation, and train and coach other Green Belts and Black Belts in the method.
Duration: typically 9-11 days of teaching (final number agreed individually) + practical project and coaching of Green Belts and Black Belts
Why choose eye4improve
- Skillful and experienced instructors
- You gain skills you can use in the real world
- We alternate between theory and practical exercises, so you are involved in the teaching
- The complex material is served in an easy-to-understand way with plenty of examples and exercises
- You gain skills you can use in the real world
- You get a high academic level
- We educate practitioners
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