Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt course – Onsite (Minitab or JMP)
- Onsite workshops with relevant case studies
- Continuous assessment with project work
- Exam tips and mock examination
- ASQ or IASSC certification
Certified course
Downloadable Presentations & Data Files
Continuous Assessment
Course project
What is this course about?
Lean six sigma enables all employees to work in collaborative teams to improve process performance and increase customer satisfaction. The black belt (BB) is a full-time six sigma programme member who has responsibility for selecting & prioritising projects, leading projects, deploying project learnings and training and mentoring green belts. The BB is trained in advanced project management and statistical analysis tools. The BB is expected to contribute between €250K and €1M to the company’s operating profit each year by undertaking process improvement projects that lead to enhanced customer satisfaction.
The course consists of a series of 20 all-day onsite workshops, interactive exercises, assignments and project work. Your knowledge builds in a step wise fashion and you will be supported and encouraged throughout your learning journey. This course is offered on an in-company basis only i.e. all candidates are from the one organisation. The course content is customised to meet the organisation’s need, at no extra cost. All Lean Ireland tutors are certified Lean Six Sigma black belts with several years’ experience in facilitating workshops in a wide variety of sectors.
The software application used is Minitab. The course is also offered in SAS JMP if required.
Certification is by an internationally reknowned certifying body such as the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the International Association for Six Sigma Certification (IASSC).
Looking for more info before you book your place? Call us now on +353 91 870708, or send an email. We’re always happy to help and to discuss our courses in more detail.
What Will You Achieve?
On completion of this certified course, you will be able to
- Select strategic and tactical projects that aid organisation competitiveness;
- Define customer needs for selected processes;
- Understand the value of cross-functional teamwork;
- Use a wide range of problem-solving techniques, both statistical and non-statistical, to improve process performance;
- Lead a cross-functional team through project steps that will resolve process problems;
- Mentor yellow belt and green belt project teams, and
- Quantify business and financial benefits for the organisation and all associated stakeholders.
Your project will deliver significant benefits to your organization or your community, in terms of simplifying and standardizing processes.
Your customers will experience improved service levels.
BB candidates are selected for training on the basis of their ability to lead cross functional teams to be successful problem solvers, and their potential to progress to higher levels within the organisation. In general, they are dynamic “can do” personnel. The full-time BB role is often a temporary one of 2-4 years duration.
What Topics Will Be Covered?
Introductions, curriculum, certification criteria, lean and six sigma pioneers, organisation goals, risk analysis & hoshin Kanri, process performance KPIs, dashboard, cost benefit analysis, voice of the customer, stakeholder analysis, role of the sponsor, team leadership, team roles, motivation, team dysfunction projects review, exam questions
Decision making tools, training, voice of the customer, segmentation, customer satisfaction, problem statement & goals, QFD, SIPOC & project charter, portfolio management, project management tools, VSM, takt time, process maps, process observation, exam questions.
Types of data, data collection, calibration, metrology, MSA, descriptive statistics, measures of location and dispersion, central limit theorem, data distributions, normal distribution and z values, other distributions, projects review, exam questions.
Hypothesis testing, non-parametric tests, power & samples size, FMEA, 5 whys, fishbone, fault tree analysis, performance measurements, linear regression, residuals analysis, projects review, exam questions
Process observation and sampling plans, calculating control limits, statistical process control for individuals, groups & attribute data, out-of-control conditions, control plans, projects review.
Control vs. capability, process capability analysis, TPM, design for six sigma, Taguchi robust design, projects review, examination technique, mock exam
FMEA, 5 whys, fishbone, fault tree analysis, DOE full and fractional experiments, EVOP, other DOE deigns, 5S, error proofing, standard work, kanban, kaizen, projects review, exam questions
Process observation and sampling plans, calculating control limits, statistical process control for individuals, groups & attribute data, out-of-control conditions, control plans, projects review, exam questions
Control vs. capability, process capability analysis, TPM, design for six sigma, Taguchi robust design, projects review, examination technique, mock exam
The course will run with a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 10 candidates. Please contact us to enquire about suitable course dates for your team.
We will gladly customise our courses to suit our clients. We can add modules, exams and more case studies relevant to your industry all with the aim of giving you even better value and learning from our courses. This course can also be facilitated via onsite workshops. Call us on +353 91 870708, or send an email for details.
How Will You Be Supported?
During this course, you will
- be able to listen to and interact with the course tutor and other participants
- be able to ask questions and complete quizzes to self-assess your understanding of the topic
- be able to download soft copy presentation files, with data sets and case studies, for your own future use
- be provided with tips for success in a multiple choice CLSSBB examination, and
- undertake a mock CLSSBB examination.
In addition to the workshops, completion of continuous assessment assignments will prepare candidates for the public ASQ or IASSC examinations. The examinations are proctored online events.
In parallel to the academic studies, candidates are required to work on a project within the organisation. A project certification review event is scheduled on the completion of each candidate’s project.
Meet Your Tutors
Bernie Rushe
Welcome to our course page and I look forward to supporting you in learning new things, or how to do old things better. Over many years as a trainer and workshop facilitator, it has been a pleasure and privilege to enable teams in a variety of organizations to serve their customers better, and grow their businesses. My lean six sigma consulting engagements with clients and practical workshops have yielded benefits in the order of several €millions per year to client companies.
Prior to becoming a course facilitator, I was involved in the management of supply chain and business process improvement activities. After training as a lean six sigma black belt at Dell Computer Corporation, I left in 2001 to establish Lean Ireland. I am a science graduate, a certified ASQ lean six sigma black belt and hold a first class honours masters’ degree in supply chain management.
Please feel free to free to contact me about consulting and courses. Bernie@LeanIreland.ie
Richard Doyle
Working with Lean Ireland gives me the opportunity to share my engineering skills and knowledge with a wide variety of people. I enjoy explaining technical issues to non technical people. It will be a pleasure to enable you to learn new skills.
I have 20+ years engineering and operations management experience, with organisations such as Seagate and General Electric, in Europe and Asia. As a consultant, I add value in the areas of strategic planning, R&D roadmap development, transfer of work, site level capital management and capital strategy skills, equipment installation, commissioning and production release, and productivity improvement. I am an experienced and motivational project leader, mentor and trainer.
I am a Chemical Engineering graduate and a GE certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Master, and I am a GE certified Six Sigma trainer.
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All of our courses are customised to suit our clients’ environments and participant learning needs. We will be delighted to discuss modification of course content and inclusion of relevant case studies with you.
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