Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification: Business Project
Offered By: Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich) via edX
Course Description
Overview
Identify, implement and evaluate an individual business project of your organization and compensate the course fee by its financial benefits.
You will travel along the DMAIC, guided by digital resources and a Master Black Belt as co-pilot. You will stop at each key Sigma tool and document it in your project storybook. These results are reviewed at each DMAIC milestone and serve as the basis for individual coaching and certification. Your completed storybook will demonstrate the operational excellence of your work and the benefits you gained. Our goal is for you to successfully complete your project, for the benefits of your project to exceed the course fee, and for you to develop the generic competence to successfully identify, implement, and evaluate future projects. To this end, we will guide you digitally and in person.
Our digital guidance provides videos, eBooks and tasks to introduce every step of a project. SigmaGuide software offers frameworks for each step, while Minitab provides quantitative tools. Documenting every step of the project in a traceable way is necessary to prove methodical competence and provide a basis for steering the project.
Our personal guidance supports your individual needs in three formats:
- DMAIC Phase Reviews will review the results of each phase, correct errors, show alternatives and suggest next steps.
- Project Coaching involves checking the suitability of the project topic and determining the focus (PreDEFINE), structuring the project and prioritizing the problems to be solved (DEFINE), prioritize your hypotheses and plan the collection of necessary data (MEASURE), optimizing the analysis of data, and reaching key milestones (ANALYSE). The IMPROVE phase typically does not require methodical support and the path through CONTROL is determined by ANALYSE.
- Green Belt Lectures: Our online Green Belt lectures reinforce topics covered in the course material, such as scientific observation, tool application, hypothesis generation, data collection, hypothesis testing (Minitab), and problem modeling - do's and don'ts.
In addition, you will acquire the basics of digital lean competence with our interactive process mining module. You can also use process mining for your project - if feasible.
Syllabus
Course 1: Six Sigma: Define and Measure
An introduction to the Six Sigma methodology and the DMAIC cycle for process improvement with a focus on the Define and Measure phases, including basic statistics for understanding sampling plans and calculating process capability.
Course 2: Six Sigma: Analyze, Improve, Control
Learn how to statistically analyze process data to determine the root cause and propose solutions for process problems, to implement quality management tools, such as 8D and the 5 Whys, and to understand the concept of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).
Course 3: Lean Production
Learn how to apply key elements of Lean Production, from minimizing inventory and reducing setup times, to using 5S and Kaizen, in order to improve quality and productivity in your workplace.
Course 4: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Business Project
Lean Six Sigma = Theory + Project = Benefit. Learn how to improve business processes with Lean Six Sigma and implement related projects along the DMAIC phases: D efine – M easure – A nalyze – I mprove – C ontrol and apply all relevant qualitative and quantitative tools.
Courses
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Learn about Lean Management, a customer-centric methodology that improves processes by eliminating waste and focusing on value-added tasks.
This course will introduce the main tenets of the Toyota Production System, which includes Just-in-Time manufacturing, quality management tools, and the critical concept of Kaizen, the Japanese practice of continuous improvement. You will also learn about the key organization and managerial approaches that are used in Lean.
You will learn how to analyze process flows in order to establish process capacity and identify the process bottleneck. You will then calculate resource utilization and cycle time to evaluate the impact of set up times, batching, defects and reworks on key process performance measures, including inventory, flow rate and flow time.
We will also discuss the impact of key concepts of Lean, including Heijunka, Kanban, Jidoka, Andon, Poka Yoke, and 5S, which help achieve increased productivity and quality.
Upon successful completion of this program, learners will earn the TUM Lean and Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification, confirming mastery of Lean Six Sigma fundamentals to a Green Belt level. The material is based on the American Society for Quality (www.asq.org) Body of Knowledge up to a Green Belt Level. The Professional Certificate is designed as preparation for a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt exam.
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In this first course of the Six Sigma Program, you will understand the background and meaning of Six Sigma and the five steps of the DMAIC process improvement flow: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control. Discuss what "Quality" means and how to identify the Voice of the Customer.
You will learn how to set an improvement project goal, calculate process yield, and identify Critical-to-Quality parameters.
You will learn how to map a process and to use the necessary statistical techniques to establish the baseline performance of a process and to calculate the process capability.
To complement the lectures, we provide interactive exercises, which allow learners to see the statistics "in action." Learners then master the statistical concepts by completing practice problems. These are then reinforced using interactive case studies, which illustrate the application of the statistics in quality improvement situations.
Upon successful completion of this program, learners will earn the TUM Lean and Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification, confirming mastery of Lean Six Sigma fundamentals to a Green Belt level. The material is based on the American Society for Quality (www.asq.org) Body of Knowledge up to a Green Belt Level. The Professional Certificate is designed as preparation for a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt exam.
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Building on the concepts from the first course in the Six Sigma Program, Define and Measure, in this course, you will learn how to statistically analyze data with the Six Sigma methodology using inferential statistical techniques to determine confidence intervals and to test hypotheses based on sample data. You will also review cause and effect techniques for root cause analysis.
You will learn how to perform correlation and regression analyses in order to confirm the root cause and understand how to improve your process and plan designed experiments.
You will learn how to implement statistical process control using control charts and quality management tools, including the 8 Disciplines and the 5 Whys to reduce risk and manage process deviations.
To complement the lectures, learners are provided with interactive exercises, which allow learners to see the statistics "in action." Learners then master statistical concepts by completing practice problems. These are then reinforced using interactive case studies, which illustrate the application of the statistics in quality improvement situations.
Upon successful completion of this program, learners will earn the TUM Lean and Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification, confirming mastery of Lean Six Sigma fundamentals to a Green Belt level. The material is based on the American Society for Quality (www.asq.org) Body of Knowledge up to a Green Belt Level. The Professional Certificate is designed as preparation for a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt exam.
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Apply the systematic Lean Six Sigma method and tools to increase the quality and availability of your products and services and lead your process to sustainable operational excellence.
Within the course program of the TUM Lean Six Sigma Green Belt for employees, you will:
- Identify, implement, and evaluate an individual Business Project of your organization.
- Drive along the DMAIC phases, guided by our digital and personal resources.
We will stop at every important Sigma tool, which you will then apply in practice and document in your project storybook. These results will be reviewed at each DMAIC milestone and serve as the basis for individual coaching and your certification.
With our digital and personal guidance, we assist you to …
- successfully complete your project
- create benefits for your organization, significantly exceeding our course fee
- develop the generic competence to identify, implement, and evaluate future projects.
Digital Guidance : Our videos, the related eBook, our software sigmaGuide and the tasks introduce every step of your project.
Personal Guidance - we will accompany your project individually in three different formats:
- DMAIC Phase Reviews: After each of the 5 DMAIC phases, we will review the results in your project storybook, correct errors, show alternatives, and suggest the next steps.
- Project Coaching: Coaching takes place at defined points in DEFINE, MEASURE, and ANALYSE to guide your project methodically.
- Green Belt Lectures: Our online Green Belt lectures reinforce specific topics. Each lecture series consists of 16 one-hour Zoom sessions, held on Tuesdays at 8:00 UTC and 15:00 UTC, here: https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/96975983511 Passcode: 122362. Check it out!
You will additionally acquire the basics of digital Lean competence with our interactive process mining module.
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Taught by
Dr. Reiner Hutwelker, Martin Grunow and Holly Ott
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