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Take a look at QAI’s Six Sigma Online Training Courses!  Not sure which course is best for you, read on further for a little more information regarding these courses…

Yellow Belt is great for beginners.  From a shop floor awareness to an executive overview, this course covers the basic understanding of Six Sigma.  Packed with over 20 hours of content, Yellow Belt allows for individuals or groups to learn the principles of Six Sigma at their own paced. Previously $499, Yellow Belt is now offered for only $99

Green Belt is intended to transfer a strong working knowledge of Six Sigma to you and your team members. Consisting of over 30 hours of content, Green Belt allows for individuals or teams to learn the principles of Six Sigma at their own pace and expands on the topics that are discussed in Yellow Belt.  Previously $899, Green Belt is now offered for only $199

Black Belt certification is a highly beneficial endeavor for both the candidate and their organization.  Packed with over 60 hours of content, this course covers Lean Principles, Statistical Content, Inference Testing, Control Strategies, Risk Mitigation and more.  Black Belt is the perfect study tool to prepare for the certified Six Sigma exam.  Previously $1299, Black Belt is now offered for only $299

The popular 5 Why technique has been used in problem solving for some time. Some even swear by it. I have found that the 5 Why technique does not actually allow the team/users to find the root cause. It points to where to look but is not fundamentally able to refine the info needed to close in on the root cause(s). I like to use Is?Is Not as a way to build the criteria for testing my theories, but more important than that, Is/Is Not allows us to compare the differences and look at the process and or environmental changes that may have contributed to the difference in the Is and Is Not.

Without the discipline of a technique used to take facts and perform the comparative analysis, 5 Why may go off into weird directions. (Some of you knw what I mean)

Best to use 5 Why to get to the point where facts are not available and switch to a more useful fact gathering technique.

An excellent comment on the blog made me think of an underpass on a Detroit highway. Driving down the road I found that  road was flooded. Being the weird individual that I am and having read a comment about the discussion being the most important thing in an FMEA, I logically saw an analogy of the flood to the FMEA process.

Water will flow unobstructed based on Gravity. Water will flow out in quite a few directions simultaneously. As the water spreads it covers a lot of area. Teams work in the same way. All kinds of info and discussions can take place spreading out, thinking of every possible thing that can go wrong.

That is the problem, all the discussion is like water spreading out in all directions. We are not getting it where we need it. FMEA is like plumbing. FMEA channels the water like in irrigation to the crops that need it most, It is like plumbing in that there may be differing directions that I want the water to flow, not everywhere. Too many times teams sit down with a blank form and go for it and end in despair due to hour long discussions only to end with, but that wont  happen because we did this thing or followed this practice. How frustrating. FMEA is very effective, but the planning for the experience is every bit as important as its’ outcome.

We are now offering Six Sigma training online for a fraction of the cost. This is only the content, but we can also get you certified with some mentoring and classroom training.

We have made available our web based course for Yellow, Green and Black belt training. These courses are quite good as many companies have purchased this content to use as their own. As an educator and trainer, I am aware of the need for a real interactive trainer to be available to teach a course, and these materials can be used in a classroom as well as by an individual. The pricing on these is extremely agreesive as I am hoping to make good content available to all who wish to learn.

This is not a substitution for good classroom training, but, like a book, this material can give you a greater understandning of Six Sigma and allow you to prepare for the Six Sigma certification process. If anyone wished to take a six sigma class, we can make those arrangements as well.  Link here for Black Belt, if the link does not work, paste into your browser.

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