Ira A Fulton Schools
of Engineering
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Program
Schedule: 2 week in-person program; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: ASU - Brickyard Artisan Court, Tempe campus
Dates
- Information Session: Wednesday June 23rd
- Meet Career Advisor: Week of June 28th
- Attend Innovation and Soft Skills Training: July 6-8th
- ASU Orientation: Friday July 9th
Prerequisites
Students must have and Associate's degree or higher and must have completed a college-level statistics course.
Who Should Attend
The program is aimed at directors, managers, engineers, supervisors and other employees who are part of continuous improvement team within the organization.
Program Requirements
The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt professional development program is a combination of course work and a green belt project. Students will complete the program in a group (cohort) format with a defined start date and completion date for the training portion of the program. A quiz will be administered at the end of each instructional week. Students must earn a 70% or higher on each quiz.
The program concludes with student Project Report presentations demonstrating effects on operational performance. This session is required for all students wishing to receive a certificate, as the project is used as the major criterion for grading.
Students will have 30 days after the end of the in-person training to complete and submit a green belt project.
Program Overview
Lean permeates everything we do. It is a discipline focused on eliminating waste (muda) and variability throughout the enterprise, and it mandates that every company activity add value for customers.
With a culture of Lean thinkers, everyone works for the corporate goals and objectives through eliminating waste and achieving value-added in all processes. This means that all employees ensure that the business flows continuously at a pace determined by customer requirements (takt time).
Lean is not about reducing headcount, but about refocusing effort, redeploying assets and improving execution. People are regularly transferred to other areas to share Lean knowledge with others, as well as asked to participate in continuous improvement activities, such as each area's core activities. Led by the site's Lean leader, these units absorb freed resources to accelerate kaizen activities, develop and deploy Lean toolsets and experiment with new ways to reduce waste.
Six Sigma is a strategic approach to implementing quality, process, and business improvement through the use of statistical and other analytic tools applied to problems that have meaningful impact on key business results. Developed at Motorola in the 1980s, Six Sigma is a strategic roadmap and methodology leveraged in all business sectors to drive continuous improvement and operations excellence. General Electric, Ford Motor Company, Honeywell, among others, have received widespread attention in the business media for their successful six sigma programs.
The Six Sigma Green Belt provides a variety of roles to contribute towards an organization's Six Sigma and overall strategic goals and objectives. In most cases, the Green Belt improves processes within their specific work area or as a part-time member of a team contributing to a larger scale Black Belt or Master Black Belt project. For example, Green Belts should be able to quantify the current state of a process, assess the capability of a measurement system, perform data analysis, and stratify output variables into potential sources of variation. Some examples of outcomes could include reduction of variation in processes, reduction of defects or errors to increase demand and customer satisfaction, and data analysis driving product quality and reliability.
Learning Outcomes
Students participating in the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Program will learn:
- To understand the history and the contributing developers of lean and six sigma.
- To understand the strategic objective of lean and six sigma.
- To become conversant in lean and six sigma tools and methods.
- To achieve successful project implementation and value-added improvement to processes.
- To understand the Six Sigma methodology, Six Sigma metrics, and analytical skills for successful application.
Required Textbooks and Software
- Lean Six Sigma: Combining Six Sigma Quality with Lean Production Speed by Michael L. George, 2002, McGraw-Hill (ISBN: 0071385215)
- Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones, Revised and Updated, 2003, Simon & Schuster, Inc. (ISBN: 0743249275)
- Minitab Version 14 or 15 (student version is acceptable, software available to registered students during the timeframe of the course)
- Engineering Statistics Handbook, National Institute of Standards and Technology
The required textbooks and software will be provided to students.
Downloads:
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Program Schedule in Adobe Acrobat Reader Format (PDF).