Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
Self-Paced Internet Course
Course Fee: $1295/$1445 (member/non-member)
Highlights:
 This is a self-paced, subject specialist, facilitated course.
 There are reading materials, assignments, quizzes, and a green belt project.
Participants spend an average of 15 hours per week towards reading, understanding, interacting
with the facilitator, answering the assignments and quizzes. At the end of the course, the
participants will be issued a Proficiency Certificate based on the performance during the course.
Overview:
1. CMI’s Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Course gives you the tools and techniques
essential to be an effective member of the Six Sigma Green Belt Teams.
2. This course focuses on effective data collection and covers the ‘Define’, ‘Measure’,
‘Analyze’, ‘Improve’ and ‘Control’ (DMAIC) phases of Six Sigma methodology, with
special reference to Foundry Processes.
3. Participants to this course will learn how to provide data collection support to Black Belts
and also how to fulfill the project leader’s role on small Green Belt foundry projects.
4. Using various exercises, the participants will have an opportunity to learn when, why and
how the basic Six Sigma tools are used to identify and minimize the variation in foundry
processes
After completion of this course, you will be able to:
1. Identify and measure critical customer requirements.
2. Identify and collect relevant data.
3. Lead project teams through the DMAIC process improvement methodology.
4. Use the basic statistical tools and techniques for defect elimination and process
simplification.
5. Use Chart Runner statistical software to perform statistical analysis.
6. Turn data into information and information into knowledge to make process
improvements.
7. Effectively support Black Belts on Six Sigma Foundry projects.
Text Book: CSSGB Primer (Green Belt) Published by Quality Council of Indiana
Software: SigmaXL from SigmaXL Company
Both the text book and the software will be provided by CMI to the registered candidates for this
course.
Grading Criteria:
Discussion Forum: 30 points
5 Quizzes: 25 points
1 Final Exam: 20 points
5 Assignments: 50 points
Six Sigma Green Belt Project Report: 75 points
Total: 200 points
**You must earn at least 150 of 200 possible points to receive the Green Belt Certification.**
Who Should Attend: Supervisors, Managers, Inspectors, Production and Quality Control
personnel.
There is no certifying body for Six Sigma Certifications. It is up to the individual
company to determine what a qualified training program consists of. The American
Society for Quality (ASQ) has developed a body of knowledge (BOK) to attempt to
standardize green belt training. The Quality Council of Indiana developed a Primer to
support the training of this BOK. This course uses that Primer and the ASQ BOK as the
curriculum basis for the course.
Course Syllabus:
Week 1:
1. OVERVIEW
1.1 Introduction to Six Sigma
1.2 Six Sigma Metrics
1.3 Financial benefits of Six Sigma
1.4 Introduction to Statistics Software
“SigmaXL”
Week 2:
2. DEFINE
2.1 Project Scope
2.2 Project Charter
2.3 Pareto Diagrams
2.4 SIPOC Diagram
2.5 Rolled Throughput Yield
2.6 Voice of Customer
2.7 Critical To Quality
2.8 Metrics Selection
2.9 Green Belt Project Selection
Week 3:
3. MEASURE
3.1 Flow charts
3.2 Process Mapping
3.3 Process Inputs and Outputs
3.4 Types of Data
3.5 Measurement Methods
3.6 Gage R&R
3.7 Understanding variation
3.8 Measuring Process Capability
3.9 Green Belt Project Progress
Week 4:
4. ANALYZE
4.1 Histograms
4.2 Scatter diagrams
4.3 Box Plots
4.4 Cause and Effect Diagrams
4.5 Affinity Diagrams
4.6 Multi-Vari Analysis
4.7 Modeling Relationships between
variables
4.8 Hypothesis Testing
4.9 Analysis of Variance
Week 5:
5. CONTROL
5.1 Statistical Process Control – SPC
5.2 Developing a Process Control Plan
5.3 Green Belt Project Progress
Week 6:
6. IMPROVE
6.1 Brainstorming
6.2 Multi-Voting
6.3 Design of Experiments (DOE)
6.4 Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
(FMEA)
6.5 Green Belt Project Completion
Course Instructors:
Dr. Hathibelagal Roshan is the president of Intellectual Capital Exchange LLC, a consulting
company specializing in Knowledge Management, Quality Management Systems and E-Training.
Dr. Roshan is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering, holds a Masters Degree in Foundry Science
and Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Metallurgy. Previous professional experience includes 27
years of teaching and research as a Professor and 10 years of management in industry as
Director of Quality and Technology. Dr. Roshan is actively associated with AFS and is the
recipient of the Award of Scientific Merit in 2001, the Thomas W. Pangborn Gold Medal in 2007,
and the CMI Director’s Award in 2007.
Shabana Roshan graduated in Business Administration with a major in Management Information
Services from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 1998. She has served as Internet
Systems Developer, Senior Application Engineer Consultant, Senior e-Business Solutions Architect
and Domino Architect in major consulting and financial institutions in Milwaukee since 1998. She
obtained Six Sigma Black Belt Certification from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 2005.
SigmaXL Software – Minimum Requirements (PC)
Computer and processor: 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher.
Memory: 512 megabytes (MB) of RAM or greater.
Hard disk: 70 MB of available hard-disk space.
Drive: CD-ROM or DVD drive.
Display: 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor.
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3¹, or later operating system.
Microsoft Excel version: Excel 2003, Excel 2007, Excel 2010², and Excel 2013² with latest
service packs installed.
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Important: As of April 8 , 2014, Excel 2003 will no longer be supported due to its
upcoming Support Lifecycle End Date.
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11.0.6300 or higher. See the Symantec article here for more information. If you are not on
11.0.6300 or higher, see our help desk article for detailed instructions on upgrading.
Note: Users must have administrative rights to install SigmaXL.
¹Microsoft has discontinued support for Windows Vista and XP unless all service packs are installed.
²Office 2010 and 2013 are 64-bit supported, but they require a unique setup file. If you have Office 64-bit,
please let us know at the time of purchase.
SAMPLE COURSE WEBSITE
SAMPLE CASE STUDY
DEFINE
D M A I C
Lead Time to Supply
Castings
Voice of Customer:
You are a supplier that
is capable of supplying
the castings to meet
our quality requirements
but you are not able to
supply parts when we
need them most.
Problem Statement: The current
lead time to supply new castings is
8 weeks
Business Case: Variation in delivery
times affects the customers assembly
schedule and adversely reflects on
customer satisfaction
Goal: To reduce the lead time average
to six weeks or less
Process Map
Order is
received
Mold Date
Pour Date
Shake out
Date
Staging
Date
Shipping
Date
Time
Date of
order
Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
Date of
promise
Date of
delivery
Defect
Six Sigma Green Belt Certification – Sample Chart