How to Choose a Winning Six Sigma Black Belt Project

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Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Project Requirements

The requirements relate to the tools that a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt should have proficiency in using. This blog will tell you what we at Six Sigma Development Solutions, Inc. suggest as attributes of a good Lean Six Sigma Project with examples and more.

A Black Belt Project has been rumored to have a requirement of $300,000+ in savings.

At SSDSI, we do not have an ROI requirement for dollars saved.

We do have a requirement of having a measurable effect on value. That effect has to be initially determined in a well-developed Six Sigma Charter.

What are the Key Characteristics of a Good Project?

What are examples of characteristics of a lean six sigma black belt project?
What are examples of characteristics of a lean six sigma black belt project?

Purpose of the Black Belt Project

First, you must understand the importance of Six Sigma. The projects help a company understand how improving certain processes can reduce costs and eliminate products and services of low quality. Six Sigma initiatives, in other words, measure the benefits of changing or improving processes. After completing a few Six Sigma projects, the company should have almost no defects.

1. Recycle and reuse

Six Sigma focuses on eliminating manufacturing errors, improving the quality of processes, and increasing overall efficiency. You can expect to oversee a variety of initiatives that are based on these principles as a Black Belt. Top management may ask you for solutions if your company wants to reduce its carbon footprint in the next decade. If your shareholders expect you to increase production in the next year, then you will need to find ways to meet their expectations and keep costs down. You can expect to manage projects which will help your company be productive, efficient, and within budget.

2. Coaching and training

One of the most valuable aspects of Black Belt Project Management certification and training is the ability of other professionals to learn and be instructed. As a result, you can expect your company to ask you to conduct training exercises for their team. They will also want you to teach lower-level staff Six Sigma concepts and procedures. The skills of your employees and the time you spend with them will be shaped by these tasks. Focus on fulfilling your organization’s obligations in terms of training and coaching. Six Sigma projects can include introducing new software for supply chain management or waste reduction, as well as other process improvements.

Project Requirements of a Six Sigma Black Belt

  • Black Belt requires two completed projects. The affidavits should include three years of experience. Six Sigma Knowledge of Body experience is required.
  • You must have at least one year of full-time paid work experience. You cannot apply for an internship, paid or not.
  • The project requires professionals with the ability to think creatively and understand client needs and wants. The professional must have effective communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.
  • It is important to have a mindset that works well and can communicate effectively. This will bring financial benefits to the company.
  • You should also be driven to improve quality.
  • The professionals should have a good understanding of the statistical tools and technologies available for use in the project.

The Process of Choosing a Black Belt Project

What is a Black Belt Project? How can you tell if you have chosen the right project to obtain your certification? The ultimate purpose of a Black Belt project is to create a project that has a significant financial effect. Black Belt projects employ Six Sigma methods that focus on performance and demonstrate how improved performance results in a financial advantage to the firm. Below is a list of tasks that fulfill Black Belt criteria for you to pick from.

Projects that are qualified

  1. Identifying methods to eliminate defects: Defects cost a firm money because they must be replaced or fixed. Defect reduction saves money and improves production.
  2. Shortening the time it takes to set up new machines: Setting up a machine means that it is not yet operational. When a machine is not running, production is not at its peak. Finding a means to reduce the length of time a machine is not operating allows production to return to normal sooner and saves corporation money that is wasted while production is halted.
  3. Addressing areas that were rejected following an audit: An audit identifies areas of vulnerability in a corporation. During an audit, Walter would be able to identify areas where his firm underperformed and work on improving those areas.
  4. Reducing the amount of additional labor in any process: More labor implies more money to pay those who provide the labor. A corporation may save money by discovering methods to accomplish things more effectively with less labor.
What are examples of a lean six sigma black belt project?
What are examples of a lean six sigma black belt project?

How to Choose Your Black Belt Project?

One shouldn’t believe blindly that they “know the solution” to the problem. A good Six Sigma project will have a solution that must be identified through the Process, which includes input, value-add, and output.

We need to be able to quantify the Output (the “Y”). For example, whether something is nice or awful, do we know what distinguishes the good from the bad? Is this a subjective measurement that various operators may interpret differently?

Inputs (Xs) should be measured and controlled.

These quantifiable and controlled inputs (X’s) for a Black Belt project should be both Attribute/Discrete data and Variable/Continuous data.

For example, a procedure to fill a container with liquid may have the following “X’s”: Fill Date (Variable), Fill Time (Variable), Fill Operator (Variable), Fill Height (Variable), Fill Weight (oz.) (Factor), Fill Liquid Pressure (Variable), and so on. These quantifiable Inputs (X’s) combine to generate an Output (Y) with some degree of good or negative. The “Y” might also be used to calculate Capability using CpK. PpK is the distance between the mean and the closest specification.

This Past data should be gathered in order to populate a Multi-Vari sheet. A Multi Vari Sheet, for example, might be an Excel spreadsheet with measurements for each of the “X’s” and each “Y” (if more than one “Y”).

In our “Bottle Filling” scenario, each time a bottle is filled, a measurement for each “X” that forms the “Y” should be taken. We should have 100 rows of data if we take a sample of 100 bottles. This information assists us in hypothesis testing.

Definition of hypothesis testing A statistical hypothesis test, as well as other statistical analyses, are used to determine the real nature of the process.

In a Black Belt project, we may realize that we don’t know what specifications to optimize the Key Process Input Variables (KPIVs).

For instance, if we discover that Fill Liquid Pressure is a KPOV but do not know the ideal pressure tolerance (Upper Spec Limit, Target, and Lower Spec Limit) to obtain an optimal product (Output “Y”), we may utilize a Design of Experiments (D.O.E.) to determine the best pressure tolerance.

The Design of Experiment (D.O.E.) toolset should be taught to a Black Belt. This toolkit will assist you in statistically determining what the specifications should be for the KPIVs in issue in order to get a more optimal result.

There will be some distinction between a Good Six Sigma Black Belt and a Bad Six Sigma Black Belt. Experienced and acknowledged Six Sigma specialist and project manager, project bridging the Service and Industrial disciplines.

In general, there will be more Attribute/Discrete “Xs” in a Service discipline (since most Service disciplines will tell you that “we don’t produce widgets with quantifiable tolerances”). As a result, D.O.E. is less common in a Service discipline.

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