Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Learn to implement successful Lean Six Sigma Projects and achieve measurable results
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Education
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt is an education in both Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. It’s a customer-, fact-, and data-driven approach to improving the quality in an organisation.
The Green Belt education gives you new perspectives for your work and makes you a coveted employee who can achieve measurable results for your company. You can lead Lean Six Sigma improvement projects based on the DMAIC model and have a mindset that enables you to make well-considered decisions anchored in valid data, process knowledge, and with a focus on human relations.
You will get an overview of the different Lean Six Sigma methods in the toolbox so that you and your company can create value for the customer, achieve the highest quality, and implement the most effective processes for the company.
Who is it aimed at?
More companies have realised that the Lean Six Sigma method can help increase customer satisfaction by improving the quality of products, processes, and services, thereby also improving the bottom line. This means that companies using Lean Six Sigma thinking can achieve significant quality improvements, save resources, and strengthen competitiveness.
Contents of the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Education
Duration: 15 days
The education will focus on Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, and the tools naturally linked to them. We delve into each point in the DMAIC model and work with basic statistics, hypothesis testing, and control.
The teaching takes place in modules, divided according to each step in the DMAIC model, where each step has its 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.
Define
- Cost of poor Quality (COPQ) – Expenses associated with poor quality
- Project Description: Defining the problem and why it is important to solve it
- Understanding customers and prioritising customer requirements
- "Voice of Customer"
- The mutual understanding of the process
- SIPOC (Supplier, Input, Process, Output & Customer) - process tool
Measure
- Intended function goals
- Operational definition
- How good is our data? Can we trust it?
- Measurement system analysis (MSA)
- Understanding of variation and what it tells us about the problem
- "Baseline" - how big is the problem from a customer's perspective? (an initial set of critical observations or data used for comparison or control)
- "The Process Door" - a selection of tools and techniques that analyse the process itself, to identify the causes of the problem. What does the process tell us?
- How the process works: "How - How diagram"
Analysis
- "The Data Door" - analysis of data to identify the causes of the problem using graphical or statistical tools. What does the data tell us?
- Finding potential causes of X's
- Introduction to DOE (Design of Experiments)
- Sources and causes
- Timeline analysis
- Confirmation of potential causes (Y=fx)
- Basic charts and diagrams
- Confidence intervals
- Basic hypothesis testing
- Correlation and regression
- Ability to set tolerances. Tolerance changes
Improve
- 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
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
Project, Exam & Certification
Project and report
To become a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, you must have completed a real DMAIC improvement project in your own organisation. This strengthens your learning, you gain practical experience, and your company solves an important issue. The project must be completed within 12 months from when you start your training and concludes with the submission of a project report and an oral 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 should be able to document the use of various Lean Six Sigma problem-solving tools.
Coaching
You get ongoing sparring and guidance from Lean Six Sigma coaches with extensive practical experience and insight into the implementation of DMAIC projects. Your coach helps you ensure progress in your project. You get 1.5 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 red thread through the DMAIC phases, and create the best possible project output.
Exam
After the last teaching session, there will be a written examination (multiple choice test), where you need to score at least 70% correctly to pass. Then awaits the completion of your practical project, project report, and oral defence, before you can be finally certified.
Certification
The certification is based on your completed project. The certification is recognition that you have demonstrated that you can convert the theory into practice and create significant results. Be aware that there is no guarantee of passing. However, we will naturally not register you for the exam unless we are sure you are well prepared for it.
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:15 days in total. Divided into 5 modules 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
Teams: We have small teams with a maximum of 12 participants. You follow the same team throughout the 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 achieve the highest quality and implement the most effective processes for the company.
Your learning will happen through both theory and practical exercises, where you practice the use of key Lean Six Sigma tools.
You will have the competencies to lead projects and local improvement initiatives, conduct a full DMAIC project, analyse process data independently, conduct random sampling, test hypotheses, and build control plans with associated 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
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
Black
Belt
Achieve expert level and become capable of conducting complicated cross-organisational improvement projects to ensure greater robustness in products, services, and processes. Typically, a 100% resource.
Duration: 20 days of teaching + work with two specific projects
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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