Lean 6 Sigma Black Belt

Have a Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt certification.

Email us at certification@opexonlineacademy.org to validate your certificate if you earned it at another institution or with Opex Online Academy.

How it works:

1. Enroll in one of our upcoming courses.

2. Complete the instructor-led virtual training.

3. Pass the exam, complete your project, and earn your certification.

Black Belt Certification Recognition

Upon completion of the Lean 6 Sigma Black Belt certification, you will be fully capable of designing and implementing improvement initiatives. You will be able to define a business problem, determine the business process baseline, analyze and identify the root cause of the response variable, implement statistical process control charts, improve and optimize process factors, and create a control plan. Additionally, you will be able to initiate a Strategy Deployment Strategy, lead projects from a Kaizen perspective, and manage Change Management strategies.

Course Duration: 40 academic hours

Achieve excellence with Lean Six Sigma certifications for professionals seeking advanced skills.

Who is this certification for?

• Individuals and teams seeking to drive operational excellence within their organizations.

• Professionals transitioning to transformational leaders.

• Leaders seeking to lead complex projects.

What is included?

• Training materials.

• International lifetime certificate awarded by Opex Online Academy.

• Official digital Lean Six Sigma Black Belt badge upon meeting all requirements.

• Guided training in Minitab.

What will you learn?Simple Linear Regression

• Multiple Linear Regression

• Design of Experiments

• Full Factorial Design of Experiments

• Fractional Factorial Design of Experiments

• Hoshin Kanri

• Kaizen

• Change Management

Learn advanced change agent skills, including:

• Correlation

• Simple Linear Regression

• Nonlinear Regression

• Multiple Linear Regression

• Confidence and Prediction Intervals

• Data Transformation

• Design of Experiments

• 2k Full Factorial Designs

• Fractional Factorial Designs

• Orthogonal Designs

• The Hoshin Kanri Model

• The Hoshin Kanri Process

• Creating a Kaizen Culture

• Change Management

At the end of this program, you will be able to:

1. Lead improvement projects: challenging the status quo and current work practices.

2. Stand out as a leader: optimizing solutions to complex problems through the comprehensive use of experimental design.

3. Qualify for leadership positions: delivering tangible results and generating significant savings.

4. Enhance your professional credentials: adding this certification to your resume, demonstrating your willingness to grow professionally and contribute to your organization's achievements.

To obtain your Black Belt Certification you must fulfill the following requirements:

COURSE LEVEL CERTIFICATION POLICY

1. The candidate will have two attempts to pass the exam with a score of 80% or above.

2. The candidate has 180 days to submit the Lean Six Sigma Project (real or hypothetical) from the moment that the course starts.

3. The candidate will be issued with the course level certificate after obtaining a score of 80% or above in the exam and when the project has been validated according to the project completion guidelines.

PROJECT COMPLETION GUIDELINES

1. Provide a signed affidavit that attests that the project, either real-life or hypothetical, is the own work of the Candidate.

2. Describe the Six Sigma Project Title

3. Provide a brief description of the purpose of the project, and how it is related to the business objective.

4. Six Sigma project’s start and completion dates by month/year.

5. Provide a brief statement on the benefits achieved by the successful completion of the project.

6. Include the following minimum project deliverables

1. Define Phase:

   1. Project Charter that includes:

   2. Business Case and Problem Statement.

   3. Critical to X requirements applicable to the project.

   4. Six Sigma Metrics defined for the project.

   5. Financial Indicators applicable to the project

   6. Hard and soft benefits derived from the project implementation

2. Measure Phase:

   1. Process Definition support documents.

   2. Six Sigma Statistics

      1. Descriptive and inferential statistics are presented wherever required.

      2. Normality of data is assessed.

   3. Measurement Analysis

      1. Gage R&R (variable or attribute)

   4. Capability Analysis

      1. Capability Indices

3. Analyze Phase:

   1. Sources of Variation

   2. Hypothesis testing analysis

4. Improve Phase:

   1. Simple or Multiple Regression analysis

   2. Design of Experiments

   3. Full Factorial Experiments OR

   4. Fractional Factorial Experiments

5. Control Phase:

   1. Lean Controls (if applicable)

   2. SPC Control Charts

   3. Control and Response Plan

Other important points:

1. There is no minimum length required.

2. The quality of work will be assessed on the following criteria:

   1. Conclusions are coherent and portray what the data is showing.

   2. The tools chosen are representative of the analysis required to solve the issue.

   3. The problem statement is of strategic importance to the organization that it belongs to.