Six Sigma Green Belt Training for Manufacturing

You can learn the Green Belt body of knowledge for free. A recognised Green Belt certification comes from passing a certifying body's paid examination. ASQ, for example, asks for three years of on-the-job experience in one or more areas of its Green Belt Body of Knowledge. It says educational waivers are not granted for the exam. This course is free training against that body of knowledge, with every module and assessment at no cost. Its optional paid certificate is an EDWartens certificate of completion, not an ASQ or IASSC credential.

The computer-delivered ASQ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt exam has 110 multiple-choice questions, of which 100 are scored. The exam time is 4 hours and 18 minutes. ASQ says all its examinations are open book, so candidates bring their own reference materials. A basic scientific calculator is provided on screen. The questions test ASQ's Green Belt Body of Knowledge. This course works through it in order with the arithmetic done, from DPMO and sigma level to Cpk, hypothesis tests and control charts.

A Green Belt works on improvement projects, usually alongside or under the guidance of a Black Belt. ASQ describes the Green Belt as playing a critical role in quality improvement projects. Green Belt work centres on the DMAIC tools. These are charters, Gage R&R, capability, hypothesis tests and control charts, which are the tools this course covers.

No. ASQ and IASSC each run their own paid Green Belt examinations and issue their own credentials. That is usually what an employer means by the phrase. This course is free EDWartens training against the Green Belt body of knowledge. It is preparation for a Green Belt role, and for a paid examination if you choose to sit one. It is not an ASQ or IASSC certification. EDWartens is not affiliated with either body, and nothing here is described as equivalent to their credentials.

School-level algebra, and enough time on a shop floor or in a quality department to describe one real process. No earlier statistics course is assumed. The average, the standard deviation, the normal curve and every test used later are built up inside the course.

No. Minitab appears in some lessons because many quality departments use it, and the notes say what it is doing at each step. Every calculation in the practice tasks can be done in a spreadsheet such as MS Excel. The capability, control chart and hypothesis test modules are worked that way.

It helps. Most tasks are written for your own line: a month of reject data, fifty consecutive readings, twenty five subgroups of five, an instrument for the Gage R&R. If you are not on a shop floor at the moment, each task can be done on the sample data given with it. The arithmetic and the judgement are the same.

Yes. Every module, practice task and assessment costs nothing. You create an account so your progress is saved and the assessments can be marked. The certificate is the only optional paid item.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you have finished every module and passed the final assessment at 60 per cent, with a verification code anyone can check. It records training against the Green Belt body of knowledge. It is not a vendor credential and not a Green Belt certification from ASQ or IASSC. It is never described as one.

The creators named in the Credits block at the foot of this page, on their own YouTube channels. They are NPTEL IIT Kharagpur for the lecture spine, Digital E-Learning for the phase explainers and The Open Educator for the Excel and Minitab work. EDWartens did not make the videos and the creators are not affiliated with EDWartens. What EDWartens wrote is the study plan, the module notes, the practice tasks and the assessments.

That is who it is written for. Quality and CI engineer posts at automotive, electronics and FMCG plants name Green Belt on the requirement line. The interview asks you to walk through a DMAIC project and read a Cpk against a customer requirement. It also asks what a control chart told you. This course gives you the body of knowledge and the worked arithmetic. Whether you later pay for an ASQ or IASSC examination is a separate decision.

The Six Sigma Green Belt Training for Manufacturing course has 15 modules. It opens with "Six Sigma, sigma level and the DMAIC roadmap", goes through "Quality, the cost of poor quality and lean beside Six Sigma", "Measurement system analysis and Gage R&R", "Hypothesis testing: the logic and the one-sample test" and "Control charts in practice, and the control plan" and ends with "Final assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the Six Sigma Green Belt Training for Manufacturing course: Turn a month of reject data into DPU, DPMO and a sigma level, and cost the problem; Fix a project with a one-page charter and a SIPOC, and write CTQs that carry a unit, a target and limits; Run a crossed Gage R&R and judge the gauge by percent study variation and number of distinct categories. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the Six Sigma Green Belt Training for Manufacturing course, software: None required. A spreadsheet such as MS Excel for the capability, control chart and hypothesis test arithmetic. Minitab is demonstrated in some lessons and is useful, but it is not needed to finish the course. Hardware: none. An instrument and a few parts from your own workplace make the Gage R&R practice task real, if you have access to them. The course itself is free.

Six Sigma Green Belt Training for Manufacturing is rated intermediate. Intermediate. Assumes school-level algebra and some production, quality or shop-floor experience. No earlier statistics course is needed, and the statistics are built up from scratch. It is written for quality, production and process engineers, and takes about 19.4 hours at your own pace.

Skills from the Six Sigma Green Belt Training for Manufacturing course (for example: turn a month of reject data into DPU, DPMO and a sigma level, and cost the problem) are used in roles such as quality engineer, process improvement analyst, quality auditor and operations manager, and in quality engineer work. The course gives you practical evidence of the skill; it does not promise a job, and employers decide on experience and interview.