Course Dates: TBD

The Investment:

• $9, 950 per participant for the 4 week program;  A premium program at a lower price than competitors offerings.
• If already Green Belt or Green Belt certified*, $4,950 for the additional 2 weeks(attend week 3 & 4 of the iPlus Black Belt Training)
• Travel and Expenses to PHX for the participant
• Your high potential candidate will be away from your site for 4 weeks, approximately oneweek per month  -  learning invaluable skills to benefit the individual and the business

* Review of Green Belt certification and project applications requested prior to acceptance   if other than Avior iPlus trained

The Return:

• A full-time Black Belt resource typically can provide $500,000-$800,000 of annualized bottom line savings, and support top line improvement efforts with skills in innovation. Actual savings will be dependent on project focus within your organization.
• A training experience that will be career changing for the participant…the value of learning in a mixed company environment is invaluable.  You will not only gain significant knowledge, but will gain multi-industry perspective, contacts, and friendships that will benefit you for your entire career.

The business world is highly focused on process improvement through reducing costs, increasing speed, and improving quality or customer satisfaction. Launch yourself into this corporate world with a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification. Your Lean Six Sigma skill set will include root cause analysis, process mapping, statistical process control, design of experiments, and a variety of other useful process calculations, allowing you to bring expertise to any field or discipline.

Your Lean Six Sigma skill set will include root cause analysis, process mapping, statistical process control, design of experiments, and a variety of other useful process calculations, allowing you to bring expertise to any field or discipline. The PhD professors offer practical experience in guiding students through this workshop, assisting with the attendee case-study assignment.

Workshop Schedule:

*10 – (4-hour sessions); (2 sessions per week for 5 weeks), sessions run 10:00 am to 2:00 PM Eastern Time (approximately 40 hours of training) plus you must do one LSS case study, (approximately 40 hours homework). Please review the PDF for the Schedule options: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Schedule

Those individuals who can use basic statistics to assist a project team. This hands-on workshop is designed for Lean Six Sigma project team members.

Participants are expected to have basic algebra capability. Yellow belt certification is not a requirement.

Students are highly recommended to have a copy of the Green Belt Course Manual, in either Paper or PDF copy, to use as reference.

Students will be provided with a PDF of the class materials.

All sessions are recorded, placed in a dropbox, and provided to participants for download to a computer in the event of a missed class or for review in the future.

Students must choose one case study (from manufacturing, financial, or healthcare) and complete it within 10 days of the last class (approx. 40 hours of homework). You will receive all case studies before the workshop begins, and will work on it over the duration of the training.

Minitab is used in this workshop. Minitab is available for free 30-day trial and must be run on a Windows PC.

A headset with microphone is required, as using built-in speakers/microphone causes echo issues. Headsets give participants complete interaction with the instructor and other students.

Exam Information: This take home exam is required. You must show your own original work on the exam and must work independently. Contact the instructor for help and guidance; do not contact other participants. You must complete the exam and email it to the instructor within 5 business days of the last session on day 10. Those who do not return the exam within 5 business days will not be eligible for the LSS Green Belt Certificate (NO EXCEPTIONS).

This is an open notes exam so you can use all of the material that the instructors have provided to you. The exam will be primarily question and answer format with some of the math that you have learned during the course. The exam should be completed in 8 to 12 hours. It is a pass/fail exam.

A certificate of completion, in PDF format, to participants who successfully complete the case study and pass the take home quiz.

This practical and hands-on Lean Six Sigma: Yellow Belt Certification (LSS) Training course covers the origin and aims of Lean, Six Sigma, and Lean Six Sigma and the roles of a Lean Six Sigma team.

Yellow Belt Course Outline

Module 1: The Process / The customer

• What is a Process?
• What Do Our Customers Want
• Management, Core & Support Processes

Module 2: Lean

• Origins of Lean
• what is Lean?
• The 7 Wastes of Lean
• Value Analysis
• The Lessons of Lean
• Analysis Tool: “Value-Add” Assessment
• Takt Rate Analysis
• Visible Workplace

Module 3: Six Sigma Section

• Six Sigma History
• What is Six Sigma?
• How Capable are your Products & Services
• Why 99% Yield is Not Good Enough
• Six (6) Causes of Variation

Module 4: Lean Six Sigma Section

• What is Lean Six Sigma?
• Why Combine Lean & Six Sigma?
• The DMAIC Methodology
• Funnel-Down Many Variables to the Critical Few!
• High Level DMAIC Approach

Module 5: Define

• Define Activities and Tools
• Project Charter Elements
• Building an Opportunity or Problem Statement
• Opportunity or Problem Statement Examples
• Creating the SIPOC Map and Developing Metrics
• Define Phase Completion Check

Module 6: Measure

• Measure Activities and Tools
• Value Steam Map Example
• Value Stream Map Symbols
• Measure – What gets measured?

Module 7: Analyze

• Analyze Activities and Tools
• Cause and Effect Diagram
• How to Build a Cause and Effect Diagram
• Cause and Effect Diagram Example
• Pareto Chart

Module 8: Improve

• Improve Activities and Tools
• Solution Plan
• Solution Plan Example
• Improve Completion Checks

Module 9: Control

• Control Activities and Tools
• What is a Control / Response Plan?
• Control / Response Plans Questions?
• Control Completion Checks