Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt course (Minitab) – onsite
- Interactive live webinars
- Continuous assessment with project work & assignments
- Includes Hypothesis Testing & DOE
Certified course
Practical course work
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. A Green Belt (GB) project leader is capable of leading a cross-functional team through a series of formal project and problem solving steps. GB projects are short-projects (c. 10 – 20 weeks) that result in customer satisfaction and cost savings or additional revenue for the organization.
On this course you will learn that lean and six sigma are about teamwork, process management and customer service. The course curriculum is run according to ISO13053-1 Quantitative methods in process improvement — Six Sigma — Part 1: DMAIC methodology, guidelines with additional technical topics Hypothesis Testing and Design of Experiments (DOE). The course is best suited to personnel who need relatively sophisticated tools for analysis and improving processes e.g. engineers, quality analysts and development chemists. Certification is based on attendance + completion of online assignments + completion of an in-house process improvement project.
The course consists of a series of 7 facilitated onsite full-day 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. The workshops are blocked as 3days – 2days – 2days, approximately 4 weeks apart. This allows project work and assignments to be completed between learning days. 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.
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What Will You Achieve?
On completion of the certified lean six sigma green belt course, you will be able to
- define customer needs for a selected process
- understand the value of cross-functional teamwork
- be able to lead a cross-functional team through project steps that will resolve process problems
- use a range of non-statistical problem-solving techniques to build good teamwork and improve process performance
- use a range of statistical tools to view, analyse and modify process performance
- quantify business and financial benefits for the organisation and the customer, and
- be primed to support other project teams in the execution of their projects
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.
When you attend the full course, complete all continuous assessment assignments, and present your improvement project, you will be awarded a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certificate. This certified lean six sigma green belt online course is designed and executed in compliance with international standard ISO 13053. Quantitative methods in process improvement — Six Sigma — Part 1: DMAIC methodology. Candidates are assessed by means of attendance, continuous assessment examinations and presentation of a completed project. The certifying project is formally evaluated by a Lean Ireland six sigma black belt. The green belt certificate is awarded by Lean Ireland.
The green belt certificate is a significant achievement and enhances your curriculum vitae. This course also provides an easy stepping stone to black belt certification.
What Topics Will Be Covered?
Introduction to CLSSGB course:
- GB course objective, curriculum, assignment and project work on course, study effort, certification process,
- Project selection and scope
- Six sigma history, DMAIC A3 planning
- The role of the sponsor & effective sponsorship, team selection.
- Define phase:
- Team leader role & team member role
- Problem definition, gemba walk, the 7 wastes, goal setting,
- DMAIC A3 development for each candidate
- Voice of the customer, stakeholder analysis and communication plan,
- A3 project planning.
- Project scheduling & the Gantt chart
- Scope management, is/is not analysis,
- SIPOC flowchart.
Define phase:
- Swimlane process mapping, spaghetti mapping, interpreting output and prioritizing actions,
- Project cost benefit analysis.
- Stage gate review at end of Define phase, team review of tools used and conclusions drawn, open Q&A on course contents and next steps, project progress review.
Measure phase:,
- Data types, data collection
- Process performance measurement: defects and defectives, rolled throughput yield.
- Data graphing, run charts, Pareto charts.
- A3 update & review of assignment 1 format and timing.
Measure phase (cont’d):
- Introduction to descriptive statistics: measures of location & spread.
- Properties of the normal distribution, Z scores and prediction
- Project progress review
- Box plots & histograms.
- Measurement systems analysis (MSA): variable gauge R&R theory (accuracy, precision, bias, linearity, tolerance) and practical exercise.
- A3 update & assignment 2.
Analyse phase:
- Process capability analysis (PCA), Cp Cpk, Pp & Ppk indices.
- 5 whys
- Cause and effect analysis.
Analyse phase (cont’d):
- Linear correlation & regression, residuals analysis, causation,
- Hypothesis testing for means, variance & proportion.
- A3 update & review of assignment 2 format and timing.
Analyse/Improve phases:
- Failure modes & effects Analysis (FMEA) risk analysis & mitigation (intro)
- Introduction to Design of Experiments, factor selection, full factorial and fractional factorial exercises.
Improve phase:
- Developing an improvement schedule.
Control phase:
- Statistical process control (SPC) charts for variable data (ImR. XbarR, XbarS), SPC for attribute data.
- Sustaining the gains: 5S workplace management & standard work,
- Post implementation review, rewarding the team, certification process and timing, review & close.
- A3 update & review of assignment 3 format and timing
The course will run with a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 12 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 online webinars. Call us on +353 91 870708, or send an email for details.
How Will You Be Supported?
During this online course, you will
- be able to listen to and interact with the course tutor and other participants
- be able to ask questions and complete workshop quizzes to self-assess your understanding of the topic, and
- be able to download soft copy presentation files, with data sets and case studies, for your own future use
The course is best suited to personnel who need relatively sophisticated tools for analysis and improving processes e.g. engineers, quality analysts and development chemists. Certification is based on attendance + completion of online assignments + completion of an in-house process improvement project. It is designed for those who have a keen interest in process improvement in the workplace, in order to improve customer service. A basic understanding of statistics is an advantage before attending the programme. The most successful candidates are likely to be those who have supervisory experience, or who are well regarded as change agents within their workplace.
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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