Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with Minitab Software

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Sigma is a statistical measure of variability. In a service or manufacturing environment, a Six Sigma process would mean that the process is virtually defect-free. In one million operations of a process, Six Sigma would allow only 3.4 defects. Most companies operate at 4 Sigma, which allows 6,000 defects per million operations of a process. Motorola set out to reduce the number of defects in its own products in the 1980s and called the process Six Sigma.

About This Event:

Lean Six Sigma Black Belts are some of the most sought after professionals today. As a Black Belt candidate, you will be trained to identify opportunities for improvement with your company, use Lean Six Sigma methodology and apply the correct tools and techniques to a Lean Six Sigma project. After training, you will have the skills needed to lead Lean Six Sigma projects throughout your organization to achieve significant financial impact and improve customer service.

Your training consists of a four-week program combining the two-week Green Belt course with two weeks of Black Belt training. This format allows Green Belts and Black Belts to train together, creating an atmosphere similar to the work environment where Green and Black Belts work together on Lean Six Sigma project teams.

Recommended For:

Highly-motivated organizational members interested in leading performance excellence projects using a wide array of graphical, statistical and Lean tools.

You Will:

Learn how to reduce total defects
Increase customer satisfaction
Increase capacity and output
Produce a better product and increase service reliability
See financial results through process improvement
Gain $100,000 to $200,000 direct cost reduction per project.

Topics Covered Include:

Process mapping
Process capability
Project planning
Statistical methodology
Factorial experiments
Design of experiments.

Additional Information:

This course is taught in 4 one-week sessions, full days Monday thru Thursday with half-days on Friday, for a total of 18 days (116 hours) of instruction.
This course uses Minitab™ software for statistical analysis of data. This software is provided to our course participants.
Participants must bring a PC laptop to class each day.
Trainees are encouraged to have a Lean Six Sigma project in mind prior to attending class.

Dates for the 2010 session beginning March 1, 2010 are as follows:
March 1-5, 2010
April 5-9, 2010
May 3-7, 2010
June 7-11, 2010

Dates for the 2010 session beginning September 20, 2010 are as follows:
September 20-24, 2010
October 18-22, 2010
November 15-19, 2010
December 13-17, 2010

A certificate will be awarded to each person who completes the workshops and passes the test given on the last day of the workshop. Certification requires the completion of a project which takes place in your company. IES will travel to your plant to validate your work.

Instructor(s):

Instructors will come from NC State University's Six Sigma team.