Lean Six Sigma® Green Belt

The following can attend the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training:

• Analysts
• Managers
• Quality Engineers
• Quality Auditors
• Quality Supervisors

At the end of this course the delegates will be able to:

• Understand problem solving and process improvement methods
• Plan and manage a real Lean Six Sigma DMAIC project
• Identify the elements of Cost of Poor quality and waste in a process
• Structure a measurement system and identify the appropriate metrics to support quantitative process improvement efforts
• Understand root cause analysis and value analysis methods Understand Process Improvement strategies
• Communicate with key stakeholders and drive change in the organisation
• Use many of the common process improvement tools

The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification course has no perquisites. Also there is no need for the candidates to have a Yellow Belt Practitioner Certification before attempting this course.

During the Green Belt Practitioner course, the participants are supposed to lead a group of Project Contributors who have knowledge of up to Yellow Belt. As such, the delegates must come to the venue with a potential Green Belt project.

Delegates are also expected to bring an idea of a potential improvement to the course.

• Introduction
  • History of Lean Six Sigma
  • Roles and responsibilities in Lean Six Sigma

• Define
  • Project Charter including Problem Definition and goals, Business Case
  • Kano
  • Voice of the Customer including Critical to Quality (CTQ)
  • Voice of the Process including SIPOC
  • Lean Six Sigma and Project Management
  • Project Selection
  • Define Tollgate

• Measure
  • Measurement Information Model
  • Selecting the right metrics
  • Sampling - basic concepts
  • Yield and Defects - Process capability measures
  • Developing a Process Baseline
  • Measure Tollgate

• Analyse
  • Process Value analysis - Value stream mapping Root Cause Analysis - process disintegration Cause and Effect Matrices
  • Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
  • Inferential Statistics for Root Cause Analysis (overview)
  • Analyse Tollgate

• Improve
  • Generating Solution Ideas - Brainstorming (Six Thinking Hats) Process Improvement strategies
  • Lean Principles Selecting Solutions Risk Management Pilot Projects
  • Improvement qualification (quantifying improvements)
  • Improve Tollgate

• Control
  • Sustaining improvement Statistical Process Control (SPC) Control charts
  • Control Tollgate

• Conclusions and Next Steps