Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Transition
Integrate lean principles into instructed Six Sigma DMAIC methodology within a hands-on, classroom environment. Prove immediate results for your organization with an applied project to your organization that you design throughout the course. Black Belt instructors will also provide ongoing coaching after the course is completed.
Now that you have completed ASQ Green Belt training and/or certification (or elsewhere with proven project work), embark on this immersive two-week Black Belt training where a profound dive into Lean and Six Sigma methodologies awaits, elevating individuals to the esteemed Black Belt skills.
Learned skills are practiced and applied through individual and team exercises, as well as to the individual projects. Armed with this advanced knowledge and the practical concepts learned, participants are poised to lead project teams in orchestrating groundbreaking business improvements that redefine success for their organizations. The versatility of the Lean Six Sigma methodology shines through, demonstrating its systematic application across service-based, transactional, production-based, and healthcare environments. Join us on this career-improvement venture dedicated to delivering not just results, but exceptional results, accompanied by heightened customer satisfaction. Elevate your skills, lead with confidence, and be the catalyst for transformative change in your professional realm.
Note: Each participant must own and install the latest Minitab version (statistical software) before the course start.
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Course Data
- CEU Hours: 6.7
- Length: 67 Hours
- ASQ RU: 6.7
- Audience: Professional, Practitioner
- Provider: ASQ
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze and improve critical business processes using data-driven methods.
- Apply statistical and problem-solving tools to an improvement project brought to class on the first day.
- Analyze and reduce process variation using Lean and Six Sigma tools.
- Identify and reduce waste and defects by applying Lean and Six Sigma tools.
- Collect, analyze, and quantify data that enable process improvements.
- Execute the Six Sigma methodology.
- Establish and define process capability.
- Identify and eliminate dominant process variation sources.
- Characterize and optimize processes by computing and applying statistical techniques.
- Design, simulate, and execute designed experiments that depict validated improvement.
- Plan and implement process control to sustain project gains.
Prerequisites:
- ASQ Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training completed, or active ASQ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt certification (or equivalent).
- A defined, management-approved business improvement project that provides a business impact to your business of $100,000 or greater. The knowledge and skills learned in this training course will be applied to this project.
- Basic statistics primer or understanding of basic statistics. Basic college-level algebra to understand statistical concepts is a minimum.
- Devote at least 40% of your time at your work environment to work on your project.
Who Should Attend:
This course is designed for individuals from diverse organizational functions-operations, quality, logistics, finance, production, engineering, and other staff functions seeking to bring significant business results to their organizations. Participants are traditionally well versed in technical aspects of their jobs, are team leaders, and are effective project facilitators.- Change Management
- Performance Measures and Benchmarking
- Financial Measures
- Define to Measure Phase Transition
- Probability
- Advanced MSA
- Advanced Process Capability with Minitab
- Measure to Analyze Phase Transition
- CLT and Confidence Intervals
- Regression
- Logistic Regression
- Predictive Analytics – CART
- ANOVA
- Nonparametric Statistics
- Chi-Square and Contingency Tables
- Power and Sample Size
- Advanced Lean Tools
- Improving Process Flow with Lean
- Analyze to Improve Transition
- Characterization DOE Refresher
- Catapult Exercise
- Fractional Factorial Designed Experiments
- Split Plot Designs
- Response Surface Designs
- Statistical Process Control
- Improve to Control Transition
- Control Plans
- Design for Six Sigma Overview
- Control Phase Summary
ASQ courses provide online access to the digital course content for 365 days (online slide decks and downloadable workbook and data files), beginning five days before the first day of your course.
Registration Email
After course registration, you will receive an email with access instructions. If you do not, please check your email junk, spam, or clutter folders. If the email is not there, please contact ASQ. For virtual WebEx courses, you will receive another email 24 hours prior to the start of class containing additional access information.
Technical Requirements (impacts all ASQ-owned eLearning)
Hardware
- PC, Mac, or mobile device
- Audio speakers or headset
- High-speed internet connection
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WebEx – Virtual Course: Advance Preparation and Student Information
Join a Test Session
We strongly suggest that you join a WebEx test session in advance of your scheduled virtual training, using your preferred web browser. This can help prevent problems launching content the day your training begins.
If you do not have administrative privileges on the SAME computer you will be using the day of your training (i.e., your workstation within your organization) you may need the assistance of your local IT/IS help desk staff for the platform to engage correctly.
To join a test session (meeting), click here and enter your name and email address to join. If successful, you will see a screen that says "Congratulations! Your system is now set up properly ..."
Deactivate Pop-up Blockers
You should deactivate any pop-up blockers, spam filters, and company firewalls that could prevent the WebEx client platform or web-based course from working properly. Third-party toolbars such as Bing, Yahoo, and Google should also be disabled due to their own pop-up blocking capabilities.
If you need to cancel, we will refund your paid registration fee as noted below.
- Requests for cancellations or transfers to another course offering received at least 30 calendar days before the start of the course can receive a full refund or transfer.
- There are no refunds within 30 calendar days before the start of the course.
- Requests to transfer to another course offering received between 29 and 10 calendar days of the course starting incur a $150 processing fee.
- There are no transfers within 9 calendar days before the start of the course.
- There are no refunds if the content has been accessed.
- Enrolled students who fail to attend their registered course without advance notice are liable for the entire course fee.
- IMPORTANT: Some courses are delivered by ASQ’s partners and have separate cancellation policies. Please refer to the product page for exact information or contact Customer Care at [email protected].
Enrollment Details
A web-based, live, classroom-like instructor led experience allowing attendees to interact without traveling. Course includes online access to materials for a limited time and up to three hard copy prints. Some courses include an electronic book – see course description for details.
| August 03, 2026 - October 07, 2026 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM CST Show Class Schedule | VIR1407 | Richard Maclin CSSBB | English | Early Bird Ends July 04, 2026 List: $6209 Member: $5795 Regular List: $6899 Member: $6439 | |||
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Attendance to all virtual sessions is required to earn a certificate of completion and for the course to be listed as completed on your ASQ transcript.
Schedule: 9 Days, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (Central Time Zone). Week1 Monday, August 3 Tuesday, August 4 Wednesday, August 5 Week 2 Monday, September 7 Tuesday, September 8 Wednesday, September 9 Week 3 Monday, October 5 Tuesday, October 6 Wednesday, October 7 (Virtual sessions are NOT recorded) |
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