Lean Six Sigma Accredited course- which provider

[phil1967]

Hello,
As per title, I will be going through this soon (paying and booking myself) and I am not sure which of the ‘accredited’ providers is suitable and by that I mean, which accreditation is legit and which ones are as good as finding the certificate in a cornflake packet. Thanks for any advice,

[Glade]

I did https://www.sbtionline.com/ sigma breakthrough technologies Inc greenbelt and black belt about 20 years ago.

They teach a mix of lean and six sigma, and include the statistical analysis with minitab which is the key part for me.

I sent people in my team on a course by some other provider a few years ago, and they didn't include any hypothesis testing, regression analysis, design of experiments...

Which, given that six sigma is about identifying sources of variation, validating it and controlling them on order to control the putput using a data driven approach was surprising.

My advice if you really want to use six sigma is to take a course that includes the statistical analysis tools.






I would also say why do you want six sigma training, because in my experience in manufacturing is operationally you get 95% of the way with foundational principles of lean, and only if you have an unknown source of variation that causes problems in a process,do you need six sigma to identify and eliminate it.

A lot of the time it can be solved with measurement systems improvement and the experience of the operators... Only when I have seen continuous production lines with many inter-related factors and reasonable measurement/automated controls has the six sigma really kicked in.

Sorry am rambling on. I would check SBTI and see if they offer courses to individuals.

[phil1967]

Thanks for the detailed reply, in terms of the why, it’s more about a potential career change done the line. My company is not on the manufacturing side and is more a service industry and I see there are courses directed towards that area. I want to do some career based training and a number of people in my organisation have this (mainly master black belts) and I am exploring it too.

[Glade]

In that case, we had some people trained in "lean design for six sigma" (LDFSS) which if I remember correctly focused more on the transactional side ETA: it's about design of a product or service to eliminate the variation that causes problems.

Reading back what I wrote, although I have a hard-on for the statistics, the DMAIC (define, measure, analyse, improve and control methodology) and the philosophy that output is a function of the inputs, so control the inputs to control the output is probably useful concepts to understand.

Edited by Glade on Tuesday 3rd January 12:35

[Glade]

https://www.creativesafetysupply.com/articles/unde...

Hmmm... My gut feel is that something more on the lean side would be more useful than six sigma.

Mapping processes, seeing the flow of information, highlighting the waste and identifying improvements that can improve delivery of the service.

Edited by Glade on Tuesday 3rd January 12:39

[phil1967]

Thanks again. Through my company, I can do a Level 5 Improvement Specialist apprenticeship but it takes about 18 months and I will struggle to do it alongside my day job. I completed a different level 5 a year ago and it spent a lot of time doing it but it was free at least although not my choice of course.

[craigjm]

I have had quite a few management consultants trained over the years and used Silicon Beach in Brighton for various levels up to black belt and always been good.

[phil1967]

I’ll give them a look thanks