Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

How To Enroll

Call 0814-939-3435, or email your contact details including program of interest to info@huritt.com, and we will get back to you. You may also visit our office in Abuja, FCT to speak with a specialist.

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Overview

Our comprehensive course is designed for individuals who want to deliver meaningful results and lasting impacts in the areas of quality, cost containment, revenue enhancement, and customer satisfaction by implementing Six Sigma principles. This course prepares students for the Six Sigma Green Belt certification offered through the American Society for Quality. 

The course not only teaches the framework of the American Society for Quality’s (ASQ’s) Six Sigma Green Belt body of knowledge, but also allows you to test and apply the framework through quizzes, engaging exercises, fun games, and case studies. This unique course design provides on-the-job readiness to analyze quality problems and be involved in continuous improvement projects in the real world.

Prepares You For…

Careers

• Process Improvement Analyst
• Six Sigma Green Belt Consultant
• Quality Control/Quality Assurance Supervisor
• Six Sigma Team Member/Associate
• Quality Technician

Certification Exam

• ASQ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

Objective

What You’ll Learn…

In this program, you will acquire essential knowledge to help you pass the American Society for Quality’s (ASQ’s) Six Sigma Green Belt certification exam and to apply key process improvement methods and concepts in various settings, including manufacturing, service, and not-for-profit organizations. The course relies on ASQ’s Green Belt body of knowledge and uses a number of engaging techniques, including fun games, subject matter expert explanation of textbook materials, and hundreds of quiz questions to help you master the curriculum material.

Upon completion of this program, students will know the following:

• Recognize why organizations implement Six Sigma.
• Understand the relationship between lean concepts and Six Sigma.
• Be able to apply Six Sigma in product and process design.
• Apply the voice of the customer (VOC) to the voice of the process (VOP).
• Understand project management basics as a way to implement Six Sigma process improvement initiatives.
• Incorporate high-performing team concepts to achieve effective Six Sigma outcomes.
• Understand statistical distributions as a way to evaluate hypotheses and measure process performance.
• Recognize the benefits of applying statistical process control as a replacement for appraisal/inspection.
• Apply design of experiments (DOE) to simultaneously evaluate the effects of several independent variables on a dependent variable.

Details

In this course, you’ll learn how to effectively apply the concepts and methods of Six Sigma. You’ll discover how the vast number of topics—value-stream mapping, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), process capability, control charts, statistical process control (SPC), design of experiments (DOE), and many more—can increase your overall quality IQ.  After completing this course, you’ll be well-prepared to sit for the Six Sigma Green Belt certification exam offered by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) as well as be positioned to add value to a wide variety of organizations, including manufacturing companies, service operations, and the government sector.

Areas of concentration include determining the relationship of basic statistics to Six Sigma, examining the Six Sigma business case, listening to the voice of the customer (VOC), seeing how quality function deployment (QFD) can improve new product development, and discovering the value of benchmarking.  As a Six Sigma Green Belt, you’ll be right in the middle of many process improvement projects as you apply brainstorming, cause and effect diagrams, checksheets, Pareto charts, and critical to quality help define problems, and opportunities.

This program is entirely online and is completed at your own pace. When you register, you receive six (6) months to complete this program.

Outline

I. Six sigma and organizational goals
A. Value of six sigma
B. Organizational goals and six sigma projects
C. Organizational drivers and metrics

II. Lean principles in the organization
A. Lean concepts
B. Value-streaming mapping

III. Design for six sigma (DFSS) methodologies
A. Road maps for DFSS
B. Basic failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
C. Design FMEA and process FMEA

IV. Voice of the customer (VOC), Project identification, Project management basics
A. Customer identification
B. Customer data
C. Customer requirements
D. Project selection
E. Process elements
F. Benchmarking
G. Process inputs and outputs
H. Owners and stakeholders
I. Project charter
K. Project scope
L. Project metrics
M. Project planning tools
N. Project documentation
O. Project risk analysis
P. Project closure

V. Management and planning tools, Business results for projects
A. Process performance
B. Communication

VI. Team dynamics and performance
A. Team stages and dynamics
B. Team roles and responsibilities
C. Team tools
D. Team Communication

VII. Process analysis and documentation, Probability and statistics
A. Basic probability concepts
B. Central limit theorem
C. Statistical distributions

VIII. Collecting and summarizing data
A. Types of data and measurement scales
B. Sampling and data collection methods
C. Descriptive statistics
D. Graphical methods

IX. Measurement system analysis (MSA)

X. Process and performance capability
A. Process performance vs. process specifications
B. Process capability studies
C. Process capability (Cp, Cpk) and process performance (Pp, Ppk) indices
D. Short-term vs. long-term capability and sigma shift

XI. Exploratory data analysis  
A. Multi-vari studies
B. Correlation and linear regression

XII. Hypothesis testing  
A. Basics
B. Tests for means, variances, and proportions

XIII. Design of experiments (DOE)
A. Basic terms
B. DOE graphs and plots

XIV. Root cause analysis, Lean Tools
A. Waste elimination
B. Cycle-time reduction
C. Kaizen and kaizen blitz

XV. Statistical process control (SPC)
A. SPC Basics
B. Rational subgrouping
C. Control charts

XVI. Control plan, Lean tools for process control  
A. Total productive maintenance (TPM)
B. Visual factory

Requirements

This program can be taken from either a Mac or a PC. It is compatible with the Windows XP and later operating systems, Firefox, Chrome, or IE 7 and later browsers. There are no specific computer requirements other than an Internet connection, e-mail account, and Microsoft Word (for assignment submissions).

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We will provide the required textbooks for this program:

• The certified Six Sigma Green Belt Handbook

• An Introduction to Six Sigma and Process Improvement

Prerequisites

Students should have basic skills in algebra and Excel.

Instructor

Tony Swaim is an experienced course developer, online instructor, university professor, and business owner/consultant. He has held globally-focused industry supply chain management positions and has enabled knowledge transfer and implementation as a supply chain management, Six Sigma, project management, and Lean consultant/trainer with Motorola, Medtronic, Cedars-Sinai Medical, Emerson Electric, Yamaha, and many other organizations.

Tony earned a Doctorate of Business Administration from Kennesaw State University is a Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) (ASQ), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M). He has published research papers in the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Education, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, and Industrial Management and Data Systems.

FAQ

1.    Can I register for programs if I am an international student?
Yes, because these programs are online you never have to actually travel to the school.  Most schools offer telephone or online registration.

2.    How long does it take to complete a program?
All of our programs are self-paced and open enrollment, so you can start them when you want and finish them at your own pace.  When you register, you’ll receive six (6) months to complete the program.

3.    What if I don’t have enough time to complete my program within the time frame provided?
The time allotted to complete your program has been calculated based on the number of hours for each program, so don’t worry too much about not completing in time. If, after a concerted effort, you are still unable to complete, your Student Advisor will help you work out a suitable completion date. Please note that a fee may be charged for an extension.

4.    Do I have to buy additional materials?
No.

5.    Can I get financial assistance?
These courses are non-credit courses, so they do not qualify for federal aid.  In some states, vocational rehab or workforce development boards will pay for qualified students to take our courses.  Additionally, some students may qualify for financial assistance when they enroll, if they meet certain requirements.

6.    What happens when I complete the program?
Upon successful completion of the program, you will be awarded a certificate of completion.

7.    Am I guaranteed a job?
Our programs will provide you with the skills you need to obtain an entry-level position in most cases.  We don’t provide direct job placement services, but our facilitators and career counselors will help you build your resume and are available to give advice on finding your first job.  Facilitators will also be available to use as a professional reference upon completion of the program.  Potential students should always do research on the job market in their area before registering.

8.    Who will be my instructor?
Each student is paired with a facilitator for one-on-one interaction.  The facilitator will be available (via e-mail) to answer any questions you may have and to provide feedback on your performance.  All of our facilitators are successful working professionals in the fields in which they teach.

9.    What software or hardware do I need in order to take online programs and what are the system requirements?
In order to take our online programs, you must have access to a computer and the Internet.  You can access the program contents from any Web-enabled computer.  You don’t have to use the same computer to log-in to the program every time.  We recommend that you have a word-processing program (Microsoft Word is the best) and the latest version of Internet Explorer.

10.    Can I use a Mac?
Yes

11.    How can I get more information about this program?
If you have questions that are not answered on our website, please feel free to contact us via email or call at the telephone number above.  If you are visiting us during non-business hours, please feel free to send us a question using the “Contact Us” form  or email us.  We will answer your questions promptly.  

12.    When can I start the program?
Our programs are all open enrollment.  You can register and start the program as soon as you are ready.

Please note:  Once the program curriculum is accessed online or through submission of a material shipment confirmation, refunds cannot be issued.

13.    Does this program prepare for a certification?
Yes. You’ll receive essential information needed for the ASQ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt exam.