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Photograph ofa hand holding a pen, writing in a planner Public Seminars

The following public seminars are offered in conjunction with STAT-A-MATRIX. For more information, or to register, call 1-800-669-8326.

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Certification

Master Black Belt and indispensable asset to your company. Our intensive program focuses on increasing the ability of experienced Six Sigma Black Belts and other process improvement professionals to take leadership roles in achieving organizational excellence. Oriel Incorporated Master Black Belts can plan strategy with senior executives, support or act as deployment champions, and lead and coach Black Belts through complex improvement and design projects.

Tailored to trained Six Sigma Black Belts and other senior quality professionals, this comprehensive workshop-based session provides a strategic view of the three Lean Six Sigma methodologies (process improvement, design and innovation and process management). Register online.

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Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification

Don’t let your competition pass you by—speed up your organization’s improvement initiative by becoming a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. This innovative program combines Lean’s focus on the elimination of waste with Six Sigma’s pursuit of breakthrough improvement. Lean Six Sigma leaders gain the skills to lead Lean DMAIC projects and train team members on each step of the process.

This course focuses on Lean Six Sigma integration and the infrastructure needed to achieve organizational excellence. Candidates learn leadership skills, team building and facilitation, coaching and mentoring, Lean DMAIC steps and outputs, and advanced statistical tools. Lean Six Sigma Black Belts direct significant product and process improvement linked to increased productivity and profitability.

Led by experienced Master Black Belts, this workshop-based program includes five weeks of training with project application scheduled between training weeks. Register online.

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Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification for Team Members

Play a vital role in your organization’s Six Sigma initiative—become a Six Sigma Yellow Belt and participate in the implementation of Six Sigma efforts on a daily basis. Our experts teach you to understand Six Sigma and use the appropriate tools in your projects.

Six Sigma Yellow Belts work directly with Six Sigma Black Belts to carry out identified improvement projects. Yellow Belt candidates learn the best way to support Six Sigma breakthrough and process improvement projects by working with cross-functional teams to define and measure problems, analyze root causes, develop and implement improvements, and establish control at new performance levels.

The highest initial rate of return on investment more often begins with an enterprise-wide deployment rather than a pilot deployment. We’ve successfully trained thousands of Yellow Belts in government and industry, including financial services, auto manufacturing, healthcare, food processing, transportation, medical device, and fiber optics. Register online.

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Six Sigma Green Belt Certification for Team Leaders

During 10 intensive days of training, our Master Black Belts will provide you with the essential skills you need to work on or lead Green Belt projects. Not only will you learn the tools and techniques in the DMAIC method, you will also develop facilitation skills and work on actual projects.

You get what you pay for: higher levels of investment offer higher levels of return.

This comprehensive course is intended for members of teams with team leaders, although individual team members can also participate. Designed for those needing more intensive training in Six Sigma tools and those who may act as team leaders on smaller projects. Register online.

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Six Sigma Black Belt Bridge Training for Green Belts

Turn your Green Belt certification into Black Belt certification, leading your team to operational excellence. Tailored to trained Six Sigma Green Belts who want to become Black Belts, this exciting program begins with a three-day refresher followed by two interactive one-week sessions covering the Black Belt curriculum and responsibilities. There is a three-week break between each training session for project work.

Candidates will learn how to lead teams to organizational and financial improvement, where it is needed most. Following the DMAIC methodology (DEFINE-MEASURE-ANALYZE-IMPROVE-CONTROL), focus is on control charts, hypothesis testing, measurement systems, regression analysis, sampling, and design of experiments.

Six Sigma Black Belt candidates should have proven leadership and interpersonal skills as well as an unwavering commitment to success. Potential attendees must preselect a qualified Six Sigma project and provide evidence of successful completion of Green Belt training.

The training includes Minitab™; attendees are responsible for bringing laptops with Minitab 15 software. Following successful completion of the training and final exam, candidates seeking certification are required to complete a detailed report of a successful Six Sigma project. Register online.

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Planning and Leading Lean Kaizen Events

Stay ahead of your competition—produce and deliver the highest quality products and services at the lowest possible cost; this is the goal of Lean. In two days, learn important fundamental Lean concepts to help your organization move toward this goal. Understand how value stream mapping and other forms of process waste identification are used to improve business processes through Lean kaizen events.

Identify and eliminate waste and its drivers in your organization by learning how to develop and analyze your processes using SIPOC, process maps, value stream maps, spaghetti charts, and other analytical methods. Use value stream maps to identify opportunities for Lean kaizen events to eliminate existing waste and its drivers. Plan Lean kaizen events using the DMAIC framework. Register online.

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Lean Certification

As organizations look to increase market share and reduce costs, employees must prove that they can bring added value to their company in today’s competitive environment. Make sure you are well positioned to help your organization meet its financial goals. Upon successful completion of this program, you will have the skills and knowledge you need to implement a Lean program in your organization.

To attain Lean certification, you must: meet course attendance requirements, pass the certification exam, and successfully complete a Lean improvement project or kaizen event. Your project/event must show evidence of implementation of the Lean solutions and improved (leaner) performance. Register online.

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