Six Sigma -Black Belt

Overview: Five modules comprising; ten days Face to face training course, Tutor email supported distance learning. Tutor supported and guided Six Sigma Project spread over six months - Thirty days equivalent. See 'The Six Sigma Package'.

Black belts are central to the Six Sigma initiative, programmes and projects. They are trained to work full-time on one or more of the identified key business objectives. These could be based on cost, time, support, quality, etc. Usually they would be expected to have completed four to six projects per year, which would be focused on the established key business objectives. The projects under normal circumstances would be expected to generate savings in the region of £150,000 per project. It may now be possible to see why Black belts are in such demand, particularly if they can regularly and consistently achieve such savings. Black belts would be trained and skilled in; roles and responsibilities for Six Sigma, advanced application methodology, various tools and techniques, business process analysis, project and team management and lean.

As a consequence of this Black belt course the delegate would be expected to be a fully qualified agent of change, capable of coordinating and managing significant business improvement projects and driving change throughout the organisation’s systems and processes.

Ten-days (Tutor supported) - Private Study:

A pre-course study programme prior to joining the course is provided consisting of a textbook and workbook. This pre-course programme includes simple exercises to check delegate's understanding and progress. Supported by email tutor guidance.

Ten-day (Face to Face) course:

Overview of Six Sigma; Aims, goals & background of Six Sigma, The metrics of Six Sigma
Six Sigma Mobilisation; Six Sigma implementation, The key roles for Six Sigma success, role and responsibilities including the Black Belt role
Six Sigma Process; The DMAIC approach
- Define; organisational goals, technicalities & scoring, defining & scoping business problems, understanding the customer, creating measurable project goals from ctq’s, process mapping, SIPOC, IDEF0, cause and effect, project selection & tracking
- Measure; FMEA and FTA, identifying & prioritising process performance risks, project and quality planning, action planning, basic statistics, attribute & variable data, understanding variation, common & special causes of variation, data accuracy, precision, linearity, stability, probability, probability theory & distributions, measuring process performance & control, how to calculate process capability, statistical process control (SPC), types of control charts, software training (Minitab or AAA) training
- Analyse; Graphical analysis: assessing process performance: pareto & measles charts, histograms, scatter plots, run charts, regression, scatter plots, confident decision making, hypothesis testing, process evaluations, application for variable data, application for attribute data, 8 wastes & standardised work, work levelling & kanban, regression analysis, simple linear regression, design of experiments
- Improve; Leading project teams, communication & change, managing team performance, creativity, facilitating team creativity, creativity & change, idea generation, idea screening/selection, managing & implementing change, improvement validation, SPC in a service setting
- Control; Solution introduction, change management, project finance measures, improvement validation, substantiating process control, recognising type of variation, control charts, capability analysis, visual process management, control/reaction plans, idea generation, screening, selection

Project (To be completed within six months) (Tutor supported and guided):

Establish project definition document, submit for approval, complete project and submit for marking

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