Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB) Training

Course Duration

5 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for this course. Completion of a Lean Foundations course or basic familiarity with process improvement concepts is helpful but not required.

Course Description

Lean Six Sigma saves organizations time and money through continuous improvement. Employers therefore often pay a premium for Six Sigma-trained and certified managers. Our Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training teaches you the strategies and tools necessary for process improvement and provides you with the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification. Take your career to the next level by getting your Lean Six Sigma certification today! Upon successfully completing the course (attending all days and completing all assignments), you will earn the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB) credential from Project Management Academy®. Project Management Academy is accredited by the Council for Six Sigma Certification (CSSC), an Official Industry Standard for Six Sigma Accreditation.

Learning Objectives

• Initiate Six Sigma projects to bring about significant and lasting organizational change
• Formulate project selection criteria to focus Six Sigma initiatives on projects that will have the greatest chance of success
• Apply the DMAIC improvement process to solve business problems
• Develop process maps to gain a full understanding of an existing process
• Incorporate the “y = f(x)” method to determine the relationship between key inputs and process outputs
• Employ Six Sigma data-driven approaches to solve problems at their root cause and prevent their recurrence
• Reduce waste and defects by applying Lean and Six Sigma principles
• Implement control charts to monitor how a process is performing over time

Course Outline

• Course Overview
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Lean vs. Six Sigma
• Learning Assessment
• Lean Fundamentals
• Kaizen
• 7 Waste (Muda)
• Current State vs. Future State
• Team Selection
• Project Charter
• Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
• Process Mapping
• Process Mapping Exercise
• Affinity Diagrams
• 5S and 6M’s
• Visual Management
• Traditional and Lean Production(s)
• Takt Time
• Focused Factories and Demand Flow
• Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
• Mistake Proofing (Poka-Yoke)
• Learning Assessment
• History of Six Sigma
• Lean vs. Six Sigma
• DMAIC vs. DMADV
• Define
• Introduction to Define
• Define Tools and Terminology
• Y=f(x)
• Rolled Throughput Yield (RTY)

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