Course Objective
The aspiring black belts are trained in the following areas

1. To identify six sigma projects
   
2. To manage six sigma projects by project management technique.
   
3. To understand and implement the DMAIC cycle.
   
4. They are made capable of training green belts and yellow belts
   
5. The training create a ingrained passion for improvement.
   
6. Be proven assets for the organization in terms by initiating, motivating and propagating the philosophy of improvement

Benefits of the program to organizations

Bottom line growth
Six sigma Implementation involves projects undertaken to improve operational excellence leading to improve operating margins through waste reduction, lead time reduction, process stability.

Improved Customer satisfaction
An organization with a six sigma culture and skill-set is in a better position to meet customer needs and ensure loyalty

Benefits to individuals

• Phenomenal improvement in employability and career enhancement.
  
• Black belts are capable of leading individual projects and hence have immense value in the organization and in the overall market.
  
• Improves business and analytical skills
  
• Helps in effectively managing process activities and performance.
  
• Helps in solving the business and quality problems
  
• Helps in faster and accurate decision making, due enhanced analytical capabilities.
  
• A Six Sigma certification can helps individuals in changing their career path and shift industry – Huge number of professionals have successfully shifted from Manufacturing to service sectors.

Who can do this course?
Engineers, Managers, and employees and who want to apply process management methodologies learned in class to a project within their own business.

1. Quality System Managers
   
2. Production and Purchase managers
   
3. Operations and Supply Chain manager
   
4. HRD managers
   
5. Finance and Commercial managers
   
6. Management and quality system consultants
7. Employees who aspire to climb the corporate ladder

Professionals from BPO, Call Centers, Services, Software etc. Further, this course is NOT only for people working in Quality Departments. This course is useful for people working in all functions – HR, Operations, Finance, Logistics, etc.

Program Contents
Define

1. Overview of Six Sigma Methodology
   
2. Identification, Prioritization and selection of Improvement opportunities
   
3. Gauging Potential Business Results, Stake Holder Analysis
   
4. Roles and responsibilities in Six Sigma implementation
   
5. Over view of Six Sigma Project execution (DMAIC or DFSS/ DMADV) (Define- Measure- Analyze- Improve & Control, Design for Six Sigma, Define Measure
6. Analyze Design and Validate)
   
7. Development of Project Team and Charter

Measure

1. Define and Map Processes to be improved (SIPOC (supplier, input, process, output, customer) / COPIS (customer, output, process, input, supplier)), Activity Flow Chart)
   
2. Identification of critical to customer / critical to business characteristics (concept of tree diagram)
   
3. Type of Data, Sample Size determination for a given confidence level and Data Collection Planning including use of Prioritization Matrix and/or FMEA
   
4. Introduction to various statistical software packages for data display and analysis like, MINITAB..
   
5. Measurement System Evaluation (Gauge R&R) for variables as well as attribute data
   
6. Understanding variation-special causes vs. common causes (like dot plots, box plots, histogram and control charts)
   
7. Stratification methods (like Pareto, Bar Diagrams, stratified dot plot, etc)
   
8. Evaluation of Process Capability and assessment of Sigma level

Analyze

1. Process Mapping including, identification of value added and non value added activities (use of lean concept)
   
2. Organizing for potential causes using cause and effect diagram, FMEA & Tree Diagram
   
3. Verification/validation of causes using work place investigation (GEMBA)

Improve

1. Concept of correlation and Regression and use of the same in validating causes
   
2. Concept of Test of Hypothesis like 2 Sample t, Chi Square, ANOVA etc and use of the same in validating the causes
   
3. Detail understanding and application of Design of experiments
   
4. Select and prioritize solutions for validated causes including concept of Risk Analysis.
   
5. Develop plan for pilot and full scale implementation
   
6. Concept and Examples of Poke Yoke, Visual Workplace and 5S
   
7. Evaluation and monitoring mechanism (like control chart for controlling purposes, Process audit, Surveillance) of results after implementation of the solutions
   
8. Institutionalization and integration of the solutions

Control

1. Quality Control & Process Change Management
   
2. Standardize and Document Effective Methods
   
3. Establish Ongoing Project Monitoring
   
4. Evaluating Results
   
5. Hand Off, Summarize Key Learnings and Draft Future Plans

Course Period

• 5 days