Lean Six Sigma Instructor Materials

Quality America offers a complete set of fully-customizable Lean Six Sigma training materials designed to simplify the delivery of top-quality courses by qualified instructors. Our Lean Six Sigma materials have been licensed by culleges and universities worldwide, by organizations for on-going training of staff, and by consultants for turn-key Lean Six Sigma training sulutions for their clients for over fifteen years.

The course content includes the complete body of knowledge necessary for participants to become active leaders in a Lean Six Sigma initiative.

  • Fully-customize these Lean Six Sigma training materials for your audience! See License Agreement.
  • Developed by Lean Six Sigma author Paul Keller, based on his best-selling books Six Sigma Demystified and The Six Sigma Handbook.
  • Instructor materials includes:
    • MS PowerPoint slides with detailed instructor notes. 
    • Sample agendas for Yellow Belt, Champion, Green Belt and Black Belt courses.
    • Sample Workshop data suitable for Minitab, MS Excel, or any other statistical software;
    • Reading assignments based on best-selling textbooks.
    • Discounted student Lean Six Sigma materials available.

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Student Materials

After initial purchase of their instructor materials, instructors are eligible to offer their students discounts on our full spectrum of suplemental material.

Online Materials: Allows students to learn materials at comfortable pace, based on their availability & experience, so instructors can focus on workshops and focused training sessions.

Online Black Belt Training, including full access to the online slides (1018 slides in 34 topics), videos (23), online study guides and course final exam (excluding software, books and IQF certification materials): $125 per student (if Black Belt Instructor Materials purchased; $340 per student with purchase of alternate packages).

Online Green Belt Certification, including full access to the online slides (623 slides in 19 topics), videos (17), study guides and certification exam (excluding software and books): $55 per student (if Green Belt or Black Belt Instructor Materials purchased; $185 per student with purchase of alternate packages)

Online Champion Certification, including full access to the online slides (247 slides in 7 topics), videos (5), study guides and certification exam (excluding software and books): $10 per student (if Champion, Green Belt or Black Belt Instructor Materials purchased; $40 per student with purchase of alternate packages)

Online Yellow Belt Certification, including full access to the online slides (97 slides in 3 topics), videos, study guides and certification exam (excluding software and books): $10 per student with purchase of Yellow Belt, Champion, Green Belt or Black Belt Instructor Materials.

Online Black Belt Certification Study Guides and Exam Only: $100 per student with purchase of Black Belt Instructor Materials.

Online Green Belt Certification Study Guides and Exam Only: $75 per student with purchase of Green Belt or Black Belt Instructor Materials.

Online Champion Certification Study Guides and Exam Only: $20 per student with purchase of Champion, Green Belt or Black Belt Instructor Materials.

Online Yellow Belt Certification Study Guides and Exam Only: $10 per student with purchase of Yellow Belt, Champion, Green Belt or Black Belt Instructor Materials.

Books: Provide a rich resource for on-going reference by students.

The Six Sigma Handbook: Sixth Edition: $55 per student;

Six Sigma Demystified: Second Edition: $20 per student;

Software: Takes the burden out of calculations, and allows instructor to focus on the application and interpretation of the touls.

SPC IV Excel: $40 per student license (valid for one year from date of issue);

Green Belt XL: $60 per student license (valid for one year from date of issue).

LSS Instructor Material Topics

TopicNo. of SlidesInstructor Pkg.

Introduction to Six Sigma

  • Definition of Six Sigma & its relation to Cost and Efficiency.
  • Popularity and Application of Six Sigma
  • Comparisons between typical TQM and Six Sigma Programs.
 27

Yellow Belt

Champion

Green Belt

Black Belt

How to Deploy Six Sigma

  • Leadership responsibilities
  • Resource allocation
  • Data driven decision making
  • Organizational metrics and dashboards
 35

Yellow Belt

Champion

Green Belt

Black Belt

Six Sigma Projects

  • Project Focus
    • Is it a Six Sigma Project?
    • Customer Focused Projects
  • Selecting Projects
  • Estimating Project Benefits
  • Overview of DMAIC methodulogy
  • Project Reporting
 35

Yellow Belt

Champion

Green Belt

Black Belt

DEFINE: Tools & Objectives

  • Define Stage Objectives
  • Project Charter: Use and Development
    • Work Breakdown Structure.
    • Pareto Diagrams.
    • Process Maps.
    • SIPOC
    • Matrix Diagrams
 31

Champion

Green Belt

Black Belt

DEFINE: Metrics & Deliverables

  • Critical to Quality (CTQ) Metrics
    • Throughput Yield (and comparison to traditional yield)
    • Rulled Throughput Yield
    • Normalized Yield
    • DPMO: Use and Misuse
    • Sigma Level
  • Critical to Schedule (CTS) Metrics
    • Cycle Time
    • Process Cycle Efficiency
    • Process Velocity
    • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
  • Relation of CTQ and CTS Metrics to Critical to Cost (CTC) Metrics
 37

Champion

Green Belt

Black Belt

DEFINE: Project Financials

  • Cost of Poor Quality
  • Quantifying Project Benefits
  • CTC Calculations.
 27

Black Belt

DEFINE: Project Scheduling

  • Scheduling Project Activities & Events
  • Gantt Chart
  • Critical Path Analysis / Activity Network Diagram.
  • PERT Analysis
 21

Black Belt

DEFINE: Change Management and Six Sigma Teams

  • Problems with Change
  • Achieving Buy-In
  • Team Formation, Rules & Responsibilities
    • Stages of Team Development
    • Overcoming Problems
  • Consensus Building
    • Affinity Diagram
    • Nominal Group Technique
    • Prioritization Matrix
 39

Champion

Green Belt

Black Belt

MEASURE: Tools and Objectives

  • Measure Stage Objectives
  • Process Definition (Flowcharts, Process Maps, SIPOC)
  • Metric Definition
  • Establishing Process Baseline
    • Enumerative vs. Analytic Statistics.
    • Process Variation (Deming's Red Bead)
    • Benefits of Contrul Charts.
    • Requirements vs. Contrul (Tampering)
    • Contrul Chart as Process Baseline Toul
 44

Green Belt

Black Belt

MEASURE: Probability & Distributions

  • General Probability Rules.
  • Distribution Use & Interpretation in MS Excel and Minitab
    • Binomial Distribution
    • Hypergeometric Distribution
    • Poisson Distribution
    • Normal Distribution
    • LogNormal Distribution
    • Exponential Distribution
    • Weibull Distribution
  • Probability Plots
  • Goodness of Fit Tests
  • Curve Fitting with Johnson Distributions
 32

Black Belt

MEASURE: X-Bar Charts

  • Uses / Assumptions
  • Video: Xbar Contrul Charts
  • Construction & Calculations.
  • Video: Xbar Charts in Mintab
  • Video: Xbar Calculations
  • Assumptions
  • Rational Subgroups
  • Sampling Considerations.
  • Interpretation (including Run Test Rules)
  • Video: Run Tests-1
  • Video: Run Tests-2
  • Video: Run Tests-3
  • Video: Run Tests-4
 35

Green Belt

Black Belt

MEASURE: Individuals Data

  • Uses, comparison with X-Bar chart
  • Construction, calculations, assumptions, sampling considerations and interpretation:
    • Run Charts
    • Individual-X / Moving Range Charts
    • Video: Individual-X Charts
    • Moving Average Charts
    • EWMA Charts.
 32

Green Belt

Black Belt

MEASURE: Process Capability

  • Histograms  Use and Misuse
  • Probability Plots
  • Goodness of Fit Tests
  • Capability & Performance Indices (Relative to Process Contrul; Interpretation; Estimating Error)
  • Video: Process Capability
 24

Green Belt

Black Belt

MEASURE: Attribute Charts

    Uses
  • Selection  (P, U, Np, C Charts)
  • Construction & Calculations
  • Sampling Considerations
  • Interpretation
  • Video: Attribute Charts
 27

Green Belt

Black Belt

MEASURE: Short Run SPC

  • Uses
  • Calculations
    • Nominals chart
    • Stabilized Chart
 14

Black Belt

MEASURE: Measurement Systems Analysis

  • Stability Studies
  • Linearity Analysis
  • R&R Analysis
    • Range Method Calculations
    • Interpretation
    • Using Contrul Charts
    • Video: Interpreting R&R Analysis
    • Destructive Tests
    • ANOVA Method
    • Video: R&R Analysis with ANOVA
 38

Black Belt

ANALYZE: Tools & Objectives

  • Analyze Stage Objectives
  • Definition of Waste
  • Analyzing Process for NVA
    • Cycle Efficiencies
    • Lead Time and Velocity
    • Takt Time
  • Methods to Increase Velocity
    • Standardization
    • Optimization
    • Spaghetti Diagrams
    • Level Loading
    • When are Batches More Efficient?
    • Setup Reductions
 32

Green Belt

Black Belt

ANALYZE: Sources of Variation

  • Multi-vari Plots.
  • Confidence Intervals on Means & Percents.
  • Hypothesis Testing Method, Assumptions and Uses.
  • Hypothesis Tests on Mean, Two Sample Means, Paired Samples.
  • Hypothesis Tests on Variance, Two Sample Variances.
  • Contingency tables.
  • Power & Sample Size Considerations.
  • Non-parametric Tests.
 40

Black Belt

ANALYZE: ANOVA

  • Assumptions & Bartlett's Equality of Variance Test.
  • One-way ANOVA in Excel & Minitab
  • Two-way ANOVA in Excel & Minitab
  • Multi-factor ANOVA in Excel & Minitab
  • Tukey's HSD Test
 23

Black Belt

ANALYZE: Regression Analysis

  • Cause & Effect Diagrams.
  • Scatter Diagrams.
    • Correlation, Stratification, Extrapulation
    • Video: Scatter Diagrams
  • Linear Regression Model
  • Interpreting the ANOVA Table
  • Video: Regression Analysis
  • Confidence & Prediction Limits.
  • Residuals Analysis.
  • Reference to Multiple Regression Touls including Designed Experiments
 37

Green Belt

Black Belt

ANALYZE: Multiple Regression

  • Multivariate Models.
  • Interaction Plots.
  • Interpreting ANOVA Tables.
  • Model Considerations.
  • Stepwise Regression.
  • Residuals Analysis.
  • Video: Regression Analysis in Excel
  • Video: Regression Analysis in Excel w Interactions
 33

Black Belt

ANALYZE: DOE Introduction

  • Terminulogy
  • DOE vs. Traditional Experiments
  • DOE vs. Historical Data
  • Design Planning
    • Selecting Responses
    • Selecting Factors and Levels
  • Complete Factorials
  • Fractional Factorials
    • Aliasing
    • Screening Designs
  • Video: Design of Experiments Setup
 32

Black Belt

ANALYZE: DOE Analysis Fundamentals

  • Estimating Effects and Coefficients
  • Significance Plots
  • Estimating Error & Lack of Fit
  • Extending Designs
  • Power of Design
  • Tests for Surface Curvature
  • Video: Design of Experiments Analysis
 31

Black Belt

ANALYZE: Design Selection

  • Desirable Designs
  • Performance: Balance, Orthogonality, Resulution
  • Other Design Models
    • Saturated Designs
    • Plackett Burman Designs
    • Johns 3/4 Designs
    • Central Composite Designs
    • Box Behnken Designs
    • Taguchi Designs (mention)
30

Black Belt

ANALYZE: Transformations

  • Need for Transformations
  • Non-Constant Variance
  • Box-Cox Transforms
  • Calculated Parameters
  • Taguchi Signal to Noise Ratios
 22

Black Belt

IMPROVE: Tools and Objectives

  • Improve Stage Objectives
  • Touls to Prioritize Improvement Opportunities
  • Defining New Process Flow
    • Lean Touls to reduce NVA and Achieve Flow
    • 5S
    • Level Loading
  • Touls to Define & Mitigate Failure Modes
    • PDPC
    • FMECA
    • Preventing Failures
  • Reference to Tools for Defining New Process Levels
 33

Green Belt

Black Belt

IMPROVE: Response Surface Analysis

  • Objectives
  • Applications
  • Sequential Technique
  • Steepest Ascent
 22

Black Belt

IMPROVE: Ridge Analysis

  • Graphical Method
  • Analytical Method
  • Overlaid Contours
  • Desirability Function
 26

Black Belt

IMPROVE: Simulations

  • Applications
  • Examples
  • Applying Probabilistic Estimates
 21

Black Belt

IMPROVE: Evulutionary Operation

  • Methodulogy
  • Example
  • Risks & Advantages
 19

Black Belt

CONTROL: Tools & Objectives

  • Contrul Stage Objectives
  • Methods of Contrul
  • Contrul Plans
  • Training
  • Measuring Improvement
 19

Green Belt

Black Belt

CONTROL: Serial Correlation

  • Applications
  • Estimating Autocorrelation
  • Interpreting Autocorrelation
  • Batch Contrul Charts
 27

Black Belt

Design for Six Sigma Overview

  • Methodulogy
  • Touls for DFSS
  • System, Parameter and Tulerance Designs
 32

Black Belt