Blackbelt Body of Knowledge:
✅MODULE-1: INTRODUCTION
Fundamentals of Six Sigma and lean methodologies, Six Sigma, lean, and continuous improvement methodologies, Relationships among business systems and processes, Strategic planning and deployment for initiatives
Leadership: Roles and responsibilities, Organizational roadblocks, and change management
Organizational Process Management & Measures: Stakeholder analysis, Benchmarking, Performance measures, Financial measures
Team Management
Team Formation: Team types and constraints, Team roles and responsibilities, Team member selection criteria, Team success factors
Team Facilitation: Motivational techniques, Team stages of development: Team communication, Team leadership models,
Team Dynamics: Group behaviors, Meeting management, Team decision-making methods
Team Training: Needs assessment, Delivery, Evaluation
✅MODULE-2: DEFINE PHASE
Voice of the Customer: Customer Identification, Customer data collection, Customer requirements
Business Case and Project Charter: Business case, Problem statement, Project scope, Goals and objectives, Project performance measurements, Project charter review
Project Management Tools: Gantt charts, Toll-gate reviews, Work breakdown structure (WBS), RACI model
Analytical Tools: Affinity diagrams, Tree diagrams, Matrix Diagrams, Prioritization Matrices, Activity network diagrams
✅MODULE-3: MEASURE PHASE
Process Characteristics: Process flow metrics, Process analysis tools
Data Collection: Types of data, Measurement scales, Sampling, Data collection plans, and methods
Measurement Systems: Measurement system analysis (MSA), Measurement systems across the organization, Metrology
Basic Statistics
Basic statistical terms, Central limit theorem, Descriptive statistics, Graphical methods, Valid statistical conclusions
Probability
Basic concepts, Distributions
Process Capability
Process capability indices, Process performance indices, General process capability studies, Process capability for attributes data, Process capability for non-normal data, Process performance vs. specification, Short-term and long-term capability
✅MODULE-4: ANALYZE PHASE
Measuring and Modeling Relationships Between Variables:
The correlation coefficient, Linear regression, and Multivariate tools
Hypothesis Testing: Terminology, Statistical vs. practical significance, Sample size, Tests for means, variances, and proportions, Analysis of variance (ANOVA), Goodness-of-fit (chi-square) tests, Contingency tables, Nonparametric tests
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Other Analysis Tools: Gap Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Waste Analysis
✅MODULE-5: IMPROVE PHASE
Terminology, Design principles, Planning experiments, One-factor experiments, Two-level fractional factorial experiments, Full factorial experiments
Lean Methods
Waste elimination, Cycle-time reduction, Kaizen, TOC, OEE and techniques, Pilot & Implementation
✅MODULE-6: CONTROL PHASE
Objectives, Selection of variables, Rational subgrouping, Control chart selection, Control chart analysis
Other Controls: TPM, Visual controls,
Maintain Controls: Control plan
Sustain Improvements: Lessons learned, Documentation, Training for process owners and staff, Ongoing evaluation
✅MODULE-7: DESIGN FOR SIX SIGMA
Common DFSS Methodologies, Design for X (DFX), Robust Designs
