Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Course details

The Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification course developed exclusively for REI is designed to give the student a basic understanding of Six Sigma principles and how to effectively assist a Six Sigma ; You'll learn how to assist in the gathering of measurements and metrics and act as a subject matter expert on the processes being reviewed within your daily job role.

A Yellow Belt will usually be a general member of the workforce, utilized for their skills, knowledge, or experience within the process that is being reviewed by the Six Sigma ; Yellow belts help ensure the Six Sigma project uses correct terminology relevant to the business in describing the ; Working with Green Belts, you'll create communication plans that will explain the improvements and process changes to employees and departments affected by the project.

Yellow Belts typically have a small role or need to develop foundational knowledge for a Six Sigma ; Yellow belts can be entry level employees that seek to improve their knowledge, or more senior members who act as SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) in a particular phase of the ; Having a Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification will allow you to understand the different phases of a Six Sigma project and how those phases improve the processes within your organization.

Learning Outcome
 

• What Six Sigma is and how it's developed.
• How Six Sigma can be applied in the work place, how a project opportunity may be identified, and how deployment will take place.
• An understanding of the roles of the other project team members, what each belt means in general terms, and what the differing responsibilities will be.
• What the DMAIC methodology is and a general understanding of the process.

Content Specification Outline:
  This course of study covers the following competencies:
 History of Six Sigma
• Why is Six Sigma used in business, and where did it come from.
o Learning Outcome: The Student will be able to define Six Sigma
 y = f(x)
• It all begins with a simple equation. Although Six Sigma talks a lot about statistical analysis and measurements and various other mathematical applications, at the core of the process is one simple equation.
o Learning Outcome: Understand the basic function of y=f(x)
 Process Variances
• Identify where variances are occurring in a function
o Learning Outcome: Basic understanding of Identifying where variances are occurring in a function.
 TQM & others
• Discuss other process improvement methodologies
o Learning Outcome: Have an understanding of the other process improvement methodologies and how they differ from Six Sigma.
 Recognizing opportunities
• Fundamentally, the training and use of Six Sigma philosophies and principles will allow employees and project teams to understand how systems interrelate and how to use the application of quality improvement methodologies which complement Six Sigma,
such as Lean.
o Learning Outcome: Understand Six Sigma philosophies and how to recognize opportunity.
Managing Quality
• Quality is not about what you produce being accurate as you see it, but rather as the customer sees it.
o Learning Outcome: Understand how to frame quality into what is important to the customer.
Deciding to start a Six Sigma project
• Six Sigma is a top-down methodology - that means that the decision to implement comes from the top - whether that is the top of the business, your division of the business, or some other production unit.
o Learning Outcome: The student understands the "how and why" regarding a company launching a quality improvement initiative like Six Sigma.
 Organizational Roles and Responsibilities
• How Six Sigma team are organized and understanding the role of each "belt"
o Learning Outcome: Understand how team are formed and the role of each belt level within the Six Sigma project.
 The DMAIC Method
• Every Six Sigma project will follow the same process in a systematic and uniform method known as DMAIC, an acronym made up from the first letters of each element - Define,
Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control.
o Learning Outcome: Understand and define DMAIC
 Why is DMAIC used
• DMAIC is a formalized problem-solving method which is designed to improve the effectiveness and ultimate efficiency of the organization.
o Learning Outcome: Understand why the DMAIC process is utilized.
 DMADV variation
• DMADV is an acronym for Define, Measure, Analyze, Design and Verify.
o Learning Outcome: Understand the basis of DMADV when you do not have an existing system or process to improve upon.
 Project Communication
• Maintaining regular communications throughout the process from the outset of the project.
o Learning Outcome: Understand why continual communication is critical to the success of the project.
 Supporting Delivery
• The role of the Yellow Belt.
o Learning Outcome: Understand the critical role that a Yellow Belt, or "Subject Matter Expert" plays within the Six Sigma team.
  Updated on 31 December, 2021