Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Become a sought-after Lean Six Sigma specialist capable of solving critical and complex quality challenges.
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification equips you with new tools and competencies you can use in your day-to-day work. You become the expert who can achieve measurable optimisation results for your company. You can lead and implement complex improvement projects based on the DMAIC model, and possess a mindset that enables you to make well-considered decisions grounded in valid data, always with a focus on your customers’ desires and requirements.
You master the various Lean Six Sigma methods in the toolkit necessary to develop services, products, and processes that can meet Lean efficiency and Six Sigma quality levels.
Who is it aimed at?
More companies have opened their eyes to the fact that Lean Six Sigma can help increase customer satisfaction by improving the quality of products, processes, and services, and thereby also improve the bottom line. This means that companies using Six Sigma thinking can achieve significant quality improvements, save resources, and strengthen competitiveness.
Content of the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
Duration: 20 days
The course follows the steps in the DMAIC model. The teaching is divided into 5 modules over a period of 6 months, during which you will work on 2 specific projects for your organisation. After the final teaching session, there will be a written examination (multiple-choice test). The entire process ends with the submission of a project report and an oral defence of it.
Define
- Project Management
- Project Charter
- Project Scope
- Project Y's
- Cost of poor Quality (COPQ) – Expenses associated with poor quality
- What is a process?
- IPO (Input, Process, Output) – Flow Model
- SIPOC (Supplier, Input, Process, Output & Customer) – process tool
- "Voice of customer"
- Pareto Analysis
- Minitab introduction (a statistical analysis program)
- Basic statistics, basic graphs and charts
- Lean principles
- Standardised work
Measure
- Learn what you can from the defect
- Goals for intended function
- ”As Is Process mapping”
- Value Stream mapping
- S (Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardise, Sustain)
- 8 types of wastes (TIMWOOD-N)
- Operational definition
- Measurement system analysis (MSA)
- Type 1 MSA
- Variable / attribute MSA
- Shape and behaviour
- Process behaviour
- Process capability - Normally distributed data
- Process capability - Non-normally distributed data
- How the process works: "How - How diagram"
Analysis
- Finding potential causes for X's
- Sources and causes
- “Multi Vary” analysis
- Timeline analysis
- Confirmation of potential causes (Y=fx)
- Confidence intervals
- Hypothesis testing including non-parametric test
- Correlation and simple linear regression
- Ability to set tolerances. Tolerance changes
- Conflict management
Improve
- Creativity techniques
- Find solutions to the root cause
- Multiple Regression and Stepwise
- Design of Experiment (DOE) - full factorial and fractional factorial including Y hat and S hat model
- Cost-benefit calculation of the chosen solutions
- Monte Carlo simulation (statistical tools)
- SMED thinking (Single Minute Exchange of Dies) - A LEAN manufacturing method that reduces the time it takes to change production.
- Error-proofing the solution with Poka Yoke (to avoid human errors in the production process)
- "Is / Is Not" Analysis
Control
- Process monitoring – follow-up on initiated improvements
- Standardisation and documentation of the new and improved process
- Proof of improvements
- Control charts
- Control plan
- Making the process generally known
- Continuous Improvement
- Project closure and handover
- Coaching Skills
- Presentation Skills
Project, Exam & Certification
Project
To become a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, you must have completed two DMAIC improvement projects in your own organisation. The project results should show improvement in key performance measures for the organisation's strategy.
The projects must be completed within 18 months from the start of your training, concluding with the submission of a project report and an oral defence of the task.
The report is a detailed thesis, which includes reflections on the process and the results you have achieved (what you did, why you did it and what the consequences were). In addition, you should be able to document the use of various Lean Six Sigma problem-solving tools.
Coaching
You have the opportunity for ongoing sparring and guidance from Lean Six Sigma coaches with extensive practical experience and insight into implementing Lean Six Sigma projects. Your coach helps you ensure progress in your project. You will typically use 3-4 hours of personal coaching per DMAIC phase, where you get targeted help for your specific problem (the hours cannot be accumulated, but must be used continuously). With this valuable support, it is easier for you to maintain the thread through the DMAIC phases and achieve the best possible project yield.
Exam
After the final teaching session, there will be a written examination (multiple choice test), where you must get at least 70% correct to pass. Afterwards, you will complete your practical projects, project report and oral defence before you can become fully certified.
Certification
The certification is based on your completed projects. Certification is a recognition that you have proven you can translate theory into practice and achieve significant results. Be aware that there is no guarantee of passing. But of course, we will not nominate you for the examination until we believe you are ready.
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
Varighed: 20 dages fysisk undervisning opdelt i 5 moduler, fordelt på en periode på ca. 6 måneder.
Tid for undervisning: Typisk fra kl. 8.00 til 16.00
Undervisningsform: Uddannelsen vil primært foregå som fysisk holdundervisning
Hold: Vi har små hold med maks. 12 deltagere. Du følger det samme hold igennem hele forløbet
Forberedelse: Forvent hjemmearbejde imellem undervisningsmodulerne
Outcome – What competences does it provide?
After completing the education, you will have acquired advanced expert knowledge about Lean Six Sigma. A structured and data-based problem-solving approach that focuses on creating value for the customer, and achieving the highest possible quality and efficiency in the company’s processes.
Your learning will take place through both theory and practical exercises, where you become a sought-after specialist in the use of key Lean Six Sigma tools.
You will have the competencies to lead and implement complicated projects and improvement initiatives, carry out a full DMAIC project, analyse advanced process data, perform sampling, test hypotheses and build control plans with associated statistical process control.
- You will be able to guide and steer the organisation towards robust, data-driven decisions based on customer understanding and process insight
- Utilise tools and methods that ensure support in the organisation for improvement initiatives.
- You will learn to use different optimisation tools for projects as well as in your daily work.
- A new perspective on the use of data-driven solutions for problem-solving.
- Define and separate external and internal customer needs, and transform these so they become operational and measurable in relation to the process output.
- Work with Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), so there is evidence for what the poor quality costs the company
- Understand the importance of using data and measurement system analyses to ensure data validity.
- Use Statistical Process Control (SPC) as a management method.
- Perform risk analyses (FMEA). For example, in connection with root cause analysis and risk assessment of future solutions.
- Use the DMAIC method to perform structured cause analyses, with essential tools such as statistical hypothesis tests and Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Design and produce solutions with Design of Experiments (DOE). Carry out experiments with both screening and real optimisation.
- Perform cause analysis and design of new processes using different process mapping tools
- Carry out idea generation sessions, develop solutions and prepare "Cost-Benefit analyses"
- Implement improvements in the organisation, as well as ensuring that the right control and reaction plans are in place afterwards
- Inspire and facilitate fundamental changes in the organisation
Our other Lean Six Sigma training courses
White
Belt
Get a brief yet thorough introduction to Lean Six Sigma and the associated tools, so you have an awareness and understanding of how a DMAIC project works.
Duration: 1 day of teaching
Yellow
Belt
Gain insight into the fundamental principles of Lean Six Sigma, so you can become an active team member in DMAIC projects, and assist Green Belts and Black Belts.
Duration: 3 days of teaching
Green
Belt
Acquire great practical insight and become capable of leading and conducting improvement projects within your own field or department. Green Belts often spend about 25% of their working time on this.
Duration: 15 days of teaching + work with own practical project
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 provide you with tools that you can take home and use immediately.
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