Certified Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Exam Prep

Name: Certified Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Exam Prep
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Master Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Aligned with internationally accepted CSSYB, LSSYB Body of Knowledge + Certification.

Created byEDUCBA Bridging the Gap

Last updated 6/2022

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What you'll learn

This course is fully aligned with the Six Sigma Yellow Belt Body of Knowledge provided by most interntionally recognized certification bodies.
Understand your roles and responsibilities as a lean six sigma yellow belt.
Identify, choose and participate in improvement projects
Become a confident member of Six Sigma team in your organization

Course content

1 section • 15 lectures • 1h 25m total length

Introduction to Six Sigma Yellow Belt0:50
Discover Lean and Six Sigma fundamentals with a beginner friendly yellow belt intro, designed for students and professionals with no prerequisites.
Lean Hist5:54
Explore the origins and evolution of Lean and Six Sigma, from 15th century shipbuilding to Ford and Toyota, highlighting continuous flow, just in time, jidoka, and the Toyota production system.
Six Sigma Hist7:16
Apply Six Sigma to drive continuous improvements in process quality and productivity through data-driven analysis and statistical tools.
Application6:01
Apply Lean Six Sigma methods to educate employees, drive continuous improvement, and sustain superior quality for brand loyalty across functions from technicians to managers.
Lean Meth8:51
Explore lean methodologies, tools, and techniques to identify and eliminate waste in processes. Learn about the eight wastes: defects, overproduction, waiting, underutilized resources, transportation, inventory, motion, and extra processing.
Jidoka Rectify and Root Cause4:45
Explore jidoka principles that trigger immediate problem escalation and root-cause analysis to rectify defects. Automating checks helps sustain production and prevent recurrence.
5S1:54
Learn the five s lean tool to eliminate wastes and create a clean, organized, and efficient process by sorting, setting in order, shining, and standardizing.
Sustain7:13
Apply the sustain phase of the five s methodology by sorting, setting in order, and shining to eliminate waste, organize data and workspace, and ensure safety and quality.
Exam 5s9:56
Apply the lean 5s approach to sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain, turning processes into standard operating procedures, ensuring consistency, waste reduction, and easy abnormality detection.
Process M3:57
Explore process mapping and value stream mapping to document the current state, identify wastes, and design an ideal value-adding process, illustrated with a simple coffee flowchart.
Jidoka Intro to Stop4:52
Learn jidoka, the automation with a human touch, by detecting abnormalities, stopping the process to fix defects, and immediately rectifying issues to prevent waste and improve quality.
Lean-VSM5:08
Analyze a coffee powder value stream with value stream mapping (VSM) to track wait time, processing time, and cycle times, and develop a future state map with operator input.
Heijunka Intro6:10
Learn hedging, the lean concept of level loading to smooth production, ensure just-in-time materials, and level demand across services like call centers for consistent, waste-free operations.
Heijunka Eg3:23
The heijunka concept levels production by evenly distributing demand, keeping agents and processes properly occupied. A teacups example shows standardisation, stability, and meeting customer demand.
Cellular Manufacturing9:42
Cellular manufacturing groups parts into families under group technology to enable continuous flow, flexibility, and reduced cycle time, using u-shaped cells and data-driven layouts to boost productivity and quality.

Requirements

Basic understanding of mathematical / statistical concepts
Preferably you should have completed the Six Sigma White Belt

Description

The following article provides an outline for Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Six Sigma is a technique to eliminate the unwanted process to enhance the quality of the business. Six Sigma is a disciplined and data-driven technique to eradicate the defects and flaws from the process to which it is implemented, controlling the overall cost of the process and enhancing the quality and customer satisfaction. It is a measurement-based methodology that focuses on improvement and variation reduction by eliminating or removing the waste or defects from the process to which it is implemented. Six Sigma is fundamentally an enhanced version of lean methodology; thus, at some places, it is also known as the lean six sigma methodology.

Six Sigma is a professional certification for those who want to explore the area of quality and process improvement. The hierarchy of the six sigma certification is diagrammatically represented above, and the details for the different belts in the six sigma are given below:

Champion: These are the people who consider quality above everything else in a process. Champions are the mentors, trainers, and coach of Black Belts and others in the organization.
Master Black Belt: The Master Black Belts or the MBB are backed up by the champions in an organization. They are usually senior management employees in the organization.
Black Belts: The Black Belts are backed up by the Master Black Belts and the champions. Black belt professionals are the ones who run a six sigma project under the guidance of the champion and the MBB.
Green Belt: The Six Sigma Green Belt professionals are the ones who are involved with a six sigma project on a part-time basis. They work as a team member under the supervision of the six sigma team leader.
Yellow Belt: Yellow belt certified candidates are the entry-level professionals of Six Sigma who have basic knowledge of the Six Sigma concepts and methodology. They are the ones who help the green belt certified professionals within an organization.

This certification is for the aspirants who wish to make a career in the quality sector. There are no eligibility criteria for taking up yellow belt certification. The yellow belt certified professionals are the team member assisting the Green Belt practitioners within an organization to enhance the process quality. The Six Sigma yellow belt certified professionals have basic knowledge and understanding of the Six Sigma concepts like the DMAIC and the quality tools required for process improvement and quality enhancement within an organization.

Who this course is for:

Industrial Engineers Continuous Improvement Professionals Engineering Students Quality Professionals