Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Training

Our Lean Six Sigma Green Belt online training, written and facilitated by the author of the latest Six Sigma Handbooks, provides an overview of the principles and methods of Lean Six Sigma deployment and includes:

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Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

 

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  • Twelve months access to 500+ training slides and 17 videos, online study guides, and an online LSS Green Belt certification exam; Approximately 100 hours of Instruction (10 CEU). See Course Objectives. Each lesson includes:
    • Detailed slides with Notes.
    • Interactive Exercises.
    • Reading Assignment from two highly-acclaimed texts (included with the course): Six Sigma Demystified and Six Sigma Handbook written by course author and instructor Paul Keller.
    • LSS Green Belt Study Guide Questions to test your knowledge.
  • Green Belt XL software (Twelve month Student Version). Minitab examples also included!
  • Upon successful course completion: Electronic certificate indicating either Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification without Projects or (if two acceptable projects submitted) Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification with Projects.

Why not learn these skills from a leading author and subject matter expert, who's helped thousands of students like you achieve online Green Belt certification? Contact us to learn more!

Want to take a different online Green Belt certification test? This course will prepare you for any Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification test, such as the ASQ exam. Or, just choose one or more of our short courses or study guides to help you prepare for specific topics in those Green Belt certification exams.

LSS Green Belt Course Objectives

Some comments from past students:

Really simplifies the 'How To'.

Very impressed with the detail and ease in which you made the deployment of Six Sigma seem.

Very useful, even for Finance professionals!

I especially appreciated the emphasis on applying the tools, leaving the math for the software.

By completing the online Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification course, students will be able to:

  • Recognize key attributes of a successful Six Sigma deployment strategy.
  • Appreciate project selection criteria.
  • Realize the role of a Green Belt in the Six Sigma organization.
  • Understand fundamentals of the DMAIC problem solving methodology.
  • Use basic Six Sigma tools for Six Sigma project definition and process baseline.
  • Understand the need for advanced problem-solving and improvement methodologies used by Project Teams when supported by Six Sigma Black Belts.
  • Actively participate in a Six Sigma team.

LSS Green Belt Training Prerequisites: Students should have a general understanding of business functions, the reading comprehension level of a high school graduate, and general proficiency using internet browsers and Windows-based computer software including MS Office.

Contact us for further information about our online LSS Green Belt certification training.

LSS Green Belt Certification Topics

Why choose Quality America for your LSS Green Belt training?

  • One key advantage offered by our courses is that they are based on perhaps the best-selling book written for Six Sigma, The Six Sigma Handbook, which has sold more than 150,000 copies.
  • The courses are written and facilitated by a leading author, who has worked with companies in a wide variety of industries. If you have questions, he’ll be answering the questions. Most online courses aren’t written or facilitated by anyone with that level of subject matter expertise.
  • One way to distinguish a qualified Six Sigma course, or certification for that matter, is by reviewing its topics or body of knowledge. If you see a course that offers only basic coverage of SPC (statistical process control) in the Measure stage, or none at all, then you know the course is written by someone who does not understand the basic statistics behind process improvement. As Deming frequently noted, enumerative statistics, such as confidence intervals and hypothesis tests, are “inappropriate (for process analysis) because they provide no basis for prediction and because they bury the information contained in the order of production.” (Out of the Crisis, 1982, 1986). While enumerative statistics are helpful in analyzing the results of designed experiments, for example, they are an inappropriate tool for process analysis used in the Measure stage of a DMAIC project. Courses that teach otherwise are simply not credible.
  • We have integrated lean topics throughout our course since its initial offering in 2001. We don’t offer separate courses or certifications for Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma, since the lean principles, tools and methods are an integral part of any successful Six Sigma implementation.
  • Our Online Green Belt course includes our certification, signed by a leading author. There are likely other credible certification exams available, and you will do well on them if you complete our course. You should be wary of any Green Belt certification that includes emphasis on enumerative statistics, since it shows an apparent lack of understanding of the use of statistics in process analysis (see above) or the role of a Green Belt. A Green Belt, by definition, retains their operational role in an organization. Their contribution to the Six Sigma implementation is to lend their process expertise to a Six Sigma project team. While it is useful for Green Belts to learn SPC, since it is used (or should be used) as a primary means of operational process control, they would rarely have cause to use enumerative statistics in their operational role at the process. Likewise, while it is useful for Green Belts to have a basic understand of designed experiments, particularly the planning and data collection activities that would be their primary focus, the statistical analysis of the experimental results would be led by a Black Belt. (Note, if you feel compelled to learn the tools of Statistical Inference, we offer that as a stand-alone short course).
  1. Introduction to Six Sigma
    1. Definition of Six Sigma & its relation to Cost and Efficiency.
    2. Popularity and Application of Six Sigma
    3. Comparisons between typical TQM and Six Sigma Programs.
    4. Quiz
  2. How to Deploy Six Sigma
    1. Leadership responsibilities
    2. Resource allocation
    3. Data driven decision making
    4. Organizational metrics and dashboards
    5. Quiz
  3. Six Sigma Projects
    1. Project Focus
      1. Is it a Six Sigma Project?
      2. Customer Focused Projects
      3. Video: Customer Focus Overview
    2. Selecting Projects
      1. Video: Project Selection Using PM
      2. Video: Consensus Criteria Method
    3. Estimating Project Benefits
    4. Overview of DMAIC methodology
    5. Project Reporting
    6. Quiz
  4. DEFINE Stage Tools & Objectives
    1. Define Stage Objectives
    2. Project Charter: Use and Development
      1. Work Breakdown Structure.
      2. Pareto Diagrams.
      3. Process Maps.
      4. SIPOC
      5. Matrix Diagrams
    3. Quiz
  5. DEFINE: Metrics & Deliverables
    1. Critical to Quality (CTQ) Metrics
      1. Throughput Yield (and comparison to traditional yield)
      2. Rolled Throughput Yield
      3. Video: Rolled Throughput Yield Calculations
      4. Normalized Yield
      5. DPMO: Use and Misuse
      6. Sigma Level
      7. Video: DPMO & Sigma Level Calculations
    2. Critical to Schedule (CTS) Metrics
      1. Cycle Time
      2. Process Cycle Efficiency
      3. Process Velocity
      4. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
    3. Relation of CTQ and CTS Metrics to Critical to Cost (CTC) Metrics
    4. Quiz
  6. DEFINE: Project Scheduling
    1. Scheduling Project Activities & Events
    2. Gantt Chart
    3. Critical Path Analysis / Activity Network Diagram.
    4. PERT Analysis
    5. Quiz
  7. DEFINE: Change Management and Six Sigma Teams
    1. Problems with Change
    2. Achieving Buy-In
    3. Team Formation, Rules & Responsibilities
      1. Stages of Team Development
      2. Overcoming Problems
    4. Consensus Building
      1. Affinity Diagram
      2. Nominal Group Technique
      3. Prioritization Matrix
    5. Quiz
  8. Measure Stage Tools and Objectives
    1. Measure Stage Objectives
    2. Process Definition (Flowcharts, Process Maps, SIPOC)
    3. Metric Definition
    4. Establishing Process Baseline
      1. Enumerative vs. Analytic Statistics.
      2. Process Variation (Deming's Red Bead)
      3. Benefits of Control Charts.
      4. Requirements vs. Control (Tampering)
      5. Control Chart as Process Baseline Tool
    5. Quiz
  9. MEASURE: X-Bar Charts
    1. Uses / Assumptions
    2. Video: Xbar Control Charts
    3. Construction & Calculations.
    4. Video: Xbar Charts in Mintab
    5. Video: Xbar Calculations
    6. Assumptions
    7. Rational Subgroups
    8. Sampling Considerations.
    9. Interpretation (including Run Test Rules)
    10. Video: Run Tests-1
    11. Video: Run Tests-2
    12. Video: Run Tests-3
    13. Video: Run Tests-4
    14. Quiz
  10. MEASURE: Individuals Data
    1. Uses, comparison with X-Bar chart
    2. Construction, calculations, assumptions, sampling considerations and interpretation:
      1. Run Charts
      2. Individual-X / Moving Range Charts
      3. Video: Individual-X Charts
      4. Moving Average Charts
      5. EWMA Charts.
    3. Quiz
  11. MEASURE: Process Capability
    1. Histograms  Use and Misuse
    2. Probability Plots
    3. Goodness of Fit Tests
    4. Capability & Performance Indices (Relative to Process Control; Interpretation; Estimating Error)
    5. Video: Process Capability
    6. Quiz
  12. MEASURE: Attribute Charts
      13. Uses
    1. Selection  (P, U, Np, C Charts)
    2. Construction & Calculations
    3. Sampling Considerations
    4. Interpretation
    5. Video: Attribute Charts
    6. Quiz
  13. Analyze Stage Tools & Objectives
    1. Analyze Stage Objectives
    2. Definition of Waste
    3. Analyzing Process for NVA
      1. Cycle Efficiencies
      2. Lead Time and Velocity
      3. Takt Time
    4. Methods to Increase Velocity
      1. Standardization
      2. Optimization
      3. Spaghetti Diagrams
      4. Level Loading
      5. When are Batches More Efficient?
      6. Setup Reductions
    5. Quiz
  14. ANALYZE: Regression Analysis
    1. Cause & Effect Diagrams.
    2. Scatter Diagrams.
      1. Correlation, Stratification, Extrapolation
      2. Video: Scatter Diagrams
    3. Linear Regression Model
    4. Interpreting the ANOVA Table
    5. Video: Regression Analysis
    6. Confidence & Prediction Limits.
    7. Residuals Analysis.
    8. Overview of Multiple Regression Tools including Designed Experiments
    9. Quiz
  15. Improve Stage Tools and Objectives
    1. Improve Stage Objectives
    2. Tools to Prioritize Improvement Opportunities
    3. Defining New Process Flow
      1. Lean Tools to reduce NVA and Achieve Flow
      2. 5S
      3. Level Loading
    4. Tools to Define & Mitigate Failure Modes
      1. PDPC
      2. FMECA
      3. Preventing Failures
    5. Reference to Tools for Defining New Process Levels
    6. Quiz
  16. Control Stage Tools & Objectives
    1. Control Stage Objectives
    2. Methods of Control
    3. Control Plans
    4. Training
    5. Measuring Improvement
    6. Quiz
  17. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Exam