Lean Six Sigma Certificates

A certificate in Lean Six Sigma prepares you to eliminate waste or inefficiency in your workplace. Specifically, the certificates address how managerial employees can rid their systems of Defects, Overproduction, Transportation, Waiting, Inventory, Motion and overProcessing as it applies to engineering concepts. 

If you are a professional working in a hospital, a manufacturing facility, or any service industry, a certificate in Lean Six Sigma helps you learn the tools necessary to undertake continuous improvement projects aimed at reducing and eliminating waste, reducing project variations, improving customer satisfaction, and increasing your organization's bottom line.

The College of Engineering & Engineering offers 3 certificates in Lean Six Sigma

• Yellow Belt: 2 day course

Lean: VSM, 5S, Mistake-proofing, Pull Systems, Little's Law, SMED, Takt time, PDCA, Fishbone, Scatter plots, Process Maps, Kaizen events, measurements, Continuous Improvement
Quality Systems: QMS requirements, ISO, Steps to ISO Certification

• Green Belt: 4 day course, after completeing Yellow Belt

Learn Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) methodology and the tools that can be applied in each phase. Participants receive a certificate after successfully completing a project reviewed by a panel of judges.

Define: Origins of Six Sigma, SMART problem/goal statement, CTQ tree, SIPOC, Pareto Analysis, Stakeholder Analysis, COPQ, Project Charter.

Measure: Process Maps, Cause and Effect diagrams, Measures and Metics (DPU, FPY, DPMO, KPI Trees, Location and Spread, Sampling, MSA, MSA Drilldown, Gage R&R, Cp, Cpk, IMR and Run Charts

Analyze: Source of Variation, ANOVA, Simple Linear Regression, DoE

Improve: Affinity Diagrams, FMEA, Cost benefit Analysis, Solution Selection

Control: Project Management, Change Management, Control Plans, Poka - Yoke, Control Charts, Dashboard tracking, Documentation

Participants are required to complete a small project and present the project findings to a panel of judges in order to obtain a green belt. Depending upon your availability and the nature of the support that one receives from the organization in which the project is conducted, it could take any where from 3-4 months to complete the project.

• Black Belt: 3 day course, after completing Green Belt