Lean Six Sigma Practitioners Black Belt - week 2
Programme Overview & Summary
This ten day course (delivered over two weeks - LSSBBWK1 & LSSBBWK2) provides the experienced Green Belt with the necessary tools and techniques to manage improvement resources to deliver major projects.
Lean and Six Sigma, both proven business improvement approaches, provide businesses with the ability to maximise customer, employee and shareholder value by minimising process variation and waste
Style and Approach
This hand-on learning experience develops both the delegate’s technical knowledge and personal skills. The course uses a blend of theory and practical exercises to ensure that delegates have the confidence and capability to deliver more complex business improvement projects and transformations.
Audience
Experienced Green Belts who want to enhance and apply their skills to larger more complex projects and be recognised as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
Programme Structure
Through a series of workshops, delegates are exposed to a wide variety of situations to enable them to apply and practice their skills in minimising the process cycle time and remove waste to deliver what the customer wants, ultimately resulting in increased customer satisfaction.
Preparing for the workshop
Suggested Reading: Lean Six Sigma and Minitab by Quinten Brook Statistics without tears by Derek Rowntree.
Group Size
Prerequisite & Requirements
Delegates must have completed a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt course with either QA (LSSGBP) or other organisation. Delegates should ideally, have a project identified to complete post-training. This is required for accreditation.
Supporting Resources
Suggested pre-reading: Lean Six Sigma and Minitab by Quinten Brook Statistics without tears by Derek Rowntree.
Course Duration
5 Day
Course Cost
For all our course pricing please login at Course pricing. Please Note: Only employees with a Network Rail email address will be allowed access.
Learning delivery
Classroom based delivery. This course also uses a combination of discussion and interactive activities for content delivery.
Course Objectives
For delegates the main focus of this course is the Lean and Six Sigma process, with both proven business improvement approaches, provide businesses with the ability to maximise customer, employee and shareholder value by minimising process variation and waste.
Accreditation
Once a delegate has completed the course and passed the examination they will be required to demonstrate the application of their learning in an appropriate improvement project.
Course Progression
This is a stand alone course.
Course Syllabus/Topics
This ten day course ran as two 5 day sessions, (week 1 and week 2), will enable delegates to become self-sufficient process improvement practitioners with the capability to analyse opportunities and deliver solutions.
Delegates will go through this course topics:
Week One (LSSBBWK2) 5 days
- Review of week 1
Analyse (continued):
- General Linear models
- Linear Regression
- Multiple Regression
- Lean Analysis
- Spaghetti Diagrams
- SMED
- TPM
Improve:
- Kaizen
- Standard Work
- Problem Solving
- Handling conflict
- Coaching
- Creativity
- Prioritisation methods
- Design of Experiments
- Full factorial experiments
- Fractional factorial experiment
Control:
- Control Charts
- Deploying Continuous Improvement
On completion of the course there will be an examination
Course Learning Outcomes
Once a delegate has completed the course and passed the examination they will be required to demonstrate the application of their learning in an appropriate improvement project.
- A lean Six Sigma Black Belt examination will be taken on the last day of week two - LSSBBWK2. It is open book.
- If a delegate fails the exam (70% pass mark) they will be able to re-sit the examination.
- Data analysis questions will be used during both weeks to assess competency in statistical analysis using Minitab.
How to apply
If you would like to attend this course or have any queries about your projects following the course, or wish to submit your project for accreditation, please goto our how to book webpage.
