Lean Six Sigma White Belt course: Training and Certification

Explore Lean Six Sigma foundations with a visual example, tackle variation, Sigma (standard deviation), defects, and cost of quality, and use an eagle landing on the shoulder to illustrate concept.

Illustrate the cost of poor quality with Toyota's 2009 floor-mat incident: unintended acceleration caused 52 fatalities and recalls, solved by a five-dollar mat clip, teaching early quality ownership.

Understand lean six sigma goals and measure before and after process outputs. Identify root causes, implement improvements, and prove statistically that gains boost the bottom line with belt-based savings targets.

Explore lean thinking to minimize non-value activities across materials, products, transactions, and information, and reduce waste via the eight forms: defects, over-production, waiting, non-utilized talent, transportation, inventory, motion, extra processing.

Explore lean six sigma belt levels—white, yellow, green, black—and roles like master black belt and champion, with project requirements, data analysis in Minitab, and mentorship.

Explore how Six Sigma white belt awareness contrasts with yellow, green, and black belt project criteria, focusing on organizational targets, required savings, and training hours.

Master the core lean six sigma project methodology with the dmaic framework—define, measure, analyze, improve, and control—to drive structured, data-driven process improvements.

Explore the DMADV approach (define, measure, analyze, design, verify) for designing new processes, and contrast it with DMAIC's corrective, statistically driven focus.

Identify the 11 Lean Six Sigma stakeholders, from belt and sponsor to mentor and board, to secure buy-in, define benefits, and navigate reviews toward certification.

Identify lean six sigma project team roles, including core team, belt, project manager, process owner, and subject matter experts, plus extended teams, and learn how to initiate improvements with stakeholders.

Master the seven quality tools in the Lean Six Sigma White Belt course, including the fishbone diagram, check sheets, control charts, histograms, Pareto charts, scatterplots, and flow charts.

Explore the Pareto chart and Pareto principle to prioritize root causes. Build Pareto charts in Excel, assess correlations with scatter plots, and map processes with flow charts.

Learn to build a Pareto table and Pareto chart in Excel to prioritize defects and focus on the top contributing components, illustrating the 80/20 rule and boosting quality.

See how Minitab creates charts and runs tests for six sigma white belt. Explore measurement system analysis revealing appraisers' decisions and improvement needs, with a confidence interval not including 95%.

Explore a green belt project walkthrough with an overview of define, measure, analyze, improve, and control phases, and gain actionable Lean Six Sigma insights to upgrade your professional life.

Define phase guides a Lean Six Sigma project by detailing the executive summary, project charter, SIPOC, voice of the customer, and baseline savings for finance approval.

Apply measurement system analysis in the measure phase with Minitab to verify accuracy, standardize methodology, map baseline process flow, and identify high-effort steps while assessing stability and capability.

Recognize that the define and measure phases are non-linear and should be iterated, dance between define and measure, and refine goals after measuring the process output.

Explore the analyze phase with the fishbone (cause and effect diagram) and five whys to uncover root causes, prioritize with Pareto charts, and test correlations via scatterplot.

Identify root causes, implement targeted improvements, and validate outcomes with baseline and process capability analyses. Use dashboards and Minitab to ensure quality, measure outputs weekly, and demonstrate sustained gains.

Master the DMAIC control phase with a detailed control plan, data ownership, and corrective actions, and learn to sustain gains through quality dashboards, financial validation, and strategic tool selection.

Earn a formal certificate of completion for finishing the Lean Six Sigma White Belt by accessing the attached resource, and stay connected by sending a message through the profile.