Delivery Options

Online Live Tailored Course

Upcoming Dates

Online Live Courses

Schedule
25, 26th June  (2 days)
Duration
2 days
Where
Online Live Classroom
Learn live with our instructor, remotely in our virtual classroom

Key Information Course Description Syllabus Instructor FAQ

Key Information

Duration

2 teaching days

Included in This Course

  • All tuition + full certification
  • 1-on-1 project mentoring
  • All course materials, software

Exam

None. (Learn Why)

Project Requirements

Yes, for full certification.
Mentor supported (included).

Prerequisites

  • Six Sigma Black Belt certification
  • Office software skills (spreadsheets)

Certification

Full certification:
On certification project sign-off.
Course certificate:
On completion of all course lectures.

CPD Hours

Teaching
10 hours
Coursework
25-50 hours

Course Description

This Lean Six Sigma course is tailored to the specialist requirements of advanced or precision manufacturing. Depending on your needs, potential topics could include:

Data Analysis and Presentation

This is about acquiring and visualising the data relevant to your customers and your process. It will include tools for comparing data samples while seeking process improvement including capability analysis against customer specifications. Depending on your prior understanding of the statistics involved it could start from graphical methods, continue to the basics of inferential statistics and extend to Hypothesis Testing, Anova and Regression.

Measurement Systems Analysis

A practical understanding of Measurement Systems Analysis and how to apply it to instrument measurement systems, manual measurements and even human appraisal judgement. It is quite often true that we have a slightly inflated sense of our own capability in achieving our critical process measurements. And as the old saying goes “If you can’t measure it, you can’t control it”

Process Problem Solving

There are two broad fields of problem solving: a number of additive and contributory causes, only one true cause among many possibles. These two cases require very different approaches and start with the simplest team based tools such as Cause and Effect Analysis and The Five Whys and progress to Analytical Root Cause Analysis for complex systems investigation. These tools can stand alone or they can be fitted to the problem identification and resolution step of your existing Defect Elimination strategy such as 8D or A4.

Design of Experiments

Design of Experiments provides a highly effective and a resource efficient strategy to model a complex process leading to a clear understanding of its main control factors and their optimisation. There are many different orthogonal designs to choose from. This will provide a practical guide to their selection, and a practical approach to their use for both an initial screening experiment and a full modelling experiment.

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Syllabus

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2 days

Advanced analytical tools for Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, applicable in precision or high-tech manufacturing.

Module Syllabus

  • Measurement Systems Analysis
  • Design of Experiments
  • Root Cause Analysis for complex problem solving.
Certification Project with 1-on-1 Coaching

25–50 hrs.

For full certification you will be required, with our help, to complete a Lean Six Sigma project of relevance and value.

With 1-on-1 coaching with your instructor, we'll help you deliver your first professional quality Lean Six Sigma project.

How long will it take?

We expect you to spend roughly 10% of your day for a maximum of three months working on your certification project.

The likelihood is the project will be part of your work and the only extra effort will be documenting it to support your certification.

Meet the Instructor

Martin Hayden

Martin Hayden

Martin qualified as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt in 2002 with Air Academy, Colorado Springs, USA. He has trained over 1200 students and taught courses across the USA, Europe, and Asia.

Martin worked at global Life Sciences company Perkin-Elmer until 2014 and delivered projects for various domains from business process to scientific instrument manufacture.

FAQ

Teaching schedule

Self-paced courses

With our self-paced courses you can study at your own pace and schedule.

You'll have access to our eAcademy where you can watch all our video courses and access all the course materials.

Online live courses

Weekdays, from 9am until 4pm UK time, with plenty of breaks in between!

A typical day usually goes as follows but these standard times can be adjusted to accommodate schedule conflicts (including different time zones!). Let us know at the start of the class and we’ll work it out with agreement of the class at the time.

9:00 – 10:00
Morning session
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 12:30
Mid-morning session (with a short mid-session break)
12:30 – 14:00
Break for lunch
14:00 – 16:00
Afternoon session (with a short mid-session break)

Tailored courses

Talk to us about booking a tailored group course for your organisation's schedule and training needs.

Joining the online live classroom

We use Zoom Workplace for all teaching and breakout sessions. It's free to download and use. A laptop or desktop computer with a camera and a headset with microphone will work best in class.

The course notes and teaching examples will be distributed via a public One Drive folder for you to download your own local copies.

Teaching style

We use small class sizes to allow lots of interaction with the instructor, as well as allowing us to make the course tailored and relevant to your specific interests.

There will also be quite a few breakout sessions of smaller teams of students and instructors to test and practice the tools.

We like participation! We think as students you learn most by questioning, challenging and testing what you hear.

Software needed

For Six Sigma modules

We use the statistics package JASP, which is 100% free.

It is easy to use and has excellent reporting formats for your project documentation

JASP is a port of IBM SPSS, and is supported by a number of institutions lead by the University of Amsterdam.

You will easily transfer the knowledge you gain using it to any of the other statistics packages that you may come to use.

It is important that we all have access to the same tools for classwork and breakouts and JASP is a great choice for all of our needs.

Deferring partway through a course

Yes you can do that.

If at any point the demands of your job or your personal plans change and conflict with the schedule you can always defer to a later cycle and pick up where you left off.

Privacy concerns

Don't worry!

We don't record any of our live teaching with students.

We also don't required you to give your full name when you sign into the classroom.

Before joining the class you will also be able to set up a background blur to obscure anything that might be in view around you.

Getting course notes, materials.

We will send you a copy of all the slides and all the training examples at the start of class.

We think it is important that you have access to everything and that you are able to make notes as you learn.

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