Certificate Black

							        Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate Series

The Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate series consists of thirteen additional
classroom sessions including a one-day project reporting session once
completing the Green Belt series or its equivalent.

The Black Belt series is open to anyone who has earned their Green Belt
Certificate at PSU or the equivalent and is interested in adding to their Six
Sigma skills to increase the ability to contribute to the continuous improvement
of an organization’s effectiveness working independently, leading project
teams and coaching others in the effective application of Six Sigma methods.

At the completion of the Black Belt classes, participants will have the basic and
advanced Six Sigma skills to make them one of their organizations most valued
associates. Participants aspiring to earn a Black Belt certificate complete a
project that they will design to improve the effectiveness --increased
revenues, profits, productivity or quality -- of processes in their place of work.




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                                     Six Sigma Black Belt
           DOE 2 – 2-level fractional designs, response surface designs


Prerequisites: Six Sigma Green Belt session 3-4 (basic statistics) or the
equivalent
Objectives: Objectives: Prepare participants for the designing and performing
statistically designed experiments for process design modeling and trouble
shooting


Topics
     •     Review of 2-level full factorial experiments
     •     The need for fractional designs and risks and benefits of fractional
           designs
     •     Dealing with curvature by augmenting 2-level factorial design to
           create RSM designs—design decisions, interpretation of results, reading
           interaction and contour plots.
     •     Designing studies when initiating the study with RSM designs.
     •     Reaching true optimization with following RSM designs following the
           path of steepest ascent—maximizing predicted response levels.
     •     Back home applications




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                                  Six Sigma Black Belt
                                  EWMA control charts


Prerequisites: Six Sigma Green Belt session 3-4 (basic statistics and Green Belt
session 3 (individuals and means control charts) and Green Belt session 5-6
(Controlling attributes, process capability and performance)
Objectives: Prepare participants for the designing and performing advanced
statistically designed experiments for process design


Topics
     •   Review Xi, Xbar and Attribute control charts
     •   Review assumptions associated with construction and application of
         control of Xi, Xbar and attributes
     •   Demonstrate shortcomings of Xi, Xbar and attributes charts
     •   Review central limit theorem
     •   Introduce exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) charts
         including calculation of the EWMA, applications, advantages and
         weaknesses
     •   Back home applications




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                                   Six Sigma Black Belt
                                       Team Dynamics


Prerequisites: none
Objectives: Prepare participants to work effectively as a team to solve
problems


Topics
         Agreement on common definition of team and teamwork
         Stages of team development
         Team roles and expectations
         Group dynamics and communication
         Team facilitation and meeting planning
         Back home planning and applications




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                                       Six Sigma Black Belt
             Introduction to Project Management for Six Sigma Projects


Prerequisites: none
Objectives: To introduce project management techniques to students aspiring
to achieve Six Sigma Black Belt Status


Topics
         •   Initiating processes – authorizing the project phase
         •   Planning Processes – defining and refining objectives and selecting
             the best of alternative courses of action to attain the objectives that
             the project was undertaken to address – students will be introduced
             to:
             o Scope Planning and Definition
                   o Workshop – (introduction to Microsoft Project)
                              Activity Planning
                              Schedule Development
                              Resource Planning
                              Project Plan Development
                              Organizational Planning
                              Communications Planning
                   o Workshop - Risk Management
                              Risk identification
                              Risk qualification
                              Risk response development




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•   Executing processes – coordinating people and other resources to
carry out the plan – students will be introduced to:
       o Project Plan Execution
       o Scope Verification
       o Team Development
       o Information Distribution


•   Controlling processes – ensuring that the project objectives are
    met by monitoring and measuring progress regularly to identify
    variances from the plan so that corrective action can be taken
    when necessary – students will be introduced to:
       o Overall Change Control
       o Scope Change Control
       o Workshop-Schedule Control
       o Cost Control
       o Performance Reporting
•   Closing processes – formalizing acceptance of the project or
    phase and bringing it to an orderly end – administrative Closure
•   Back home applications




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                                   Six Sigma Black Belt
                                    Hypothesis Testing


Prerequisites: Six Sigma Green Belt session 3-4 (basic statistics) and Black Belt
session 3-4 (DOE – 2-level factorials) or the equivalent
Objectives: Teach participants to compare processes with hypothesis tests


Topics
     •   Review of hypothesis testing concepts and relation to control charting,
         and DOE.
     •   “T” tests
            o When to apply
            o The “T” distribution
            o “T” tests with equal and unequal variances
            o Paired “T” tests
            o How to interpret
     •   “F” tests
            o When to apply
            o The “F” distribution
            o “F” tests
            o How to interpret
     •   , ANOVA
            o When to apply
            o One-way ANOVA
            o Two-way ANOVA
            o How to interpret
     •   Homework assignments




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                                         Six Sigma Black Belt
                                            Regression Analysis



Prerequisites: Six Sigma session 1 (basic statistics) and session 6 (DOE – 2-level factorials) and
session 8 (Hypothesis testing) or the equivalent
Objectives: Teach participants to relate variables and build predictive models


Topics
         •   Scatter diagrams for relating two variables
         •   Intro to regression analysis
         •   Least squares method of regression analysis
         •   Simple linear regression
         •   Polynomial regression
         •   Multiple regression
         •   Assessing the reliability of models developed through regression analysis—R2,
             Confidence and Prediction Intervals
         •   SOPs for running and diagnosing regression analysis.
         •   Project assignments
         •   Black Belt exam




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                               Six Sigma Black Belt Session 7
                             Project Reporting and Certification


Dates: September 8, 2008


Prerequisites: Completion of Green and Black Sessions and exams
Objectives: Report on Six Sigma projects and receive certification


Agenda
      •   Each candidate report on completed projects describing objects, strategy, tools
          applied, results, conclusions, benefits realized
      •   Award Black Belt certificates




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