Six Sigma Manufacturing Black Belt Upgrade
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Six Sigma Manufacturing Black Belt Upgrade


Programme Overview
For certified Green Belts, this exclusive programme provides a fast-track upgrade path to achieve Black Belt status. The 8-day programme focuses on the advanced DMAIC tools that are required for more complex projects. Candidates for this programme will have been trained and accredited as a Green Belt by a recognised training organisation.

Programme Objectives 
- Provide a clear upgrade route from Green Belt to Black Belt (including re-cap key learning points from Green Belt)
- Ensure DMAIC flow and application of tools are fully understood
- Introduce the leadership and change management skills to support the Black Belt role
- Provide practitioner training in the more complex statistical tools required within the Black Belt toolkit
- Provide guidance on Black Belt certification process & discuss delegate projects

Programme Content
- Introduction
- The Black Belt role
- Project selection, scoping & management
- Certification process
- Review of advanced improvement techniques in the DMAIC process
- Quality Function
- Deployment (QFD)
- Overview of QFD
- QFD & 6S process improvement
- An anatomy of QFD
- Leadership & Process Transformation
- Effective change management
- Change acceptance for the organisation & individual
- Drivers, constraints, sponsors & stakeholders
- Managing commitment
- Influencing & communicating
- Hypothesis Testing
- Using inferential statistics for process improvement
- Hypothesis testing route map
- Analysing variable data for normality, location & dispersion
- Analysing attribute data for proportion & count data
- Non-parametric statistical techniques
- Non-normal data
- Multi-Variable Regression
- Introduction to multiple regression
- Analysis of multi-variable data
- Further diagnostic techniques
- Signpost to advanced regression techniques

BLOCK 2
- Implementing Process Transformation
- Implementation monitoring & control
- ‘After action’ reviews
- Transfer of ownership
- Identifying, leading & developing your team
- Overcoming resistance & developing high performance teams
- Coaching for performance excellence
- Introduction to DFSS: the IDOV Roadmap
- Introduction to DFSS
- The benefits of using the DFSS approach
- The IDOV route map
- Implementing DFSS
- Advanced Design of Experiments
- Benefits & limitations of basic DOE techniques
- Overview of advanced technique
- Advanced Design of Experiments (Contd)
- Taguchi techniques
- Mixed & multi-level experiments
- Response surface designs (CCD, CCF & Box-Behnken designs)
- Introduction to evolutionary experimentation (EVOP techniques)

Note: All DOE modules Include SimWare Simulations & Minitab Analysis, as well as practical
experimentation examples

Accreditation
Smallpeice offer an accreditation process for the Black Belt Upgrade trainees. This involves passing a multi-choice examination, submitting a Black Belt project report, and attending a panel assessment session with the Smallpeice Master Black Belt Team. Input from the sponsoring company will also be sought and taken into account.

 
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Duration10 days
 
£2,500
per delegate
 
 
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