ETI 2624 - Six Sigma Black Belt Concepts

Engineering and Building Arts Department

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Fall 2019 (565)

Course Description

This course addresses the roles and responsibilities required for a Six Sigma Black Belt candidate. This course also covers the advanced six sigma tools beyond those tools using the model of define, measure, analyze, improve, and control (DMAIC). The student will be required to exhibit a mastery of the concepts and tools through projects, exercises and case studies as they apply to both manufacturing and service industries.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will understand the leadership role and responsibilities of a Six Sigma Black Belt within a Six Sigma organization by:
    1. defining the requirements to support and lead the enterprise strategic and tactical initiatives utilizing SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) assessments.
    2. defining the techniques to support the organizations Executive Leadership Council and it's Continuous Improvement Teams (CIT).
    3. describing and utilizing the skills required to train new Green Belt candidates.
    4. describing and utilizing the skills required to support and train Continuous Improvement Teams.
  2. The student will demonstrate the tests of Statistical Significance by:
    1. describing and utilizing Chi-square development and analysis.
    2. describing and utilizing t-tests and analysis.
    3. describing and utilizing Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) methods.
  3. The student will demonstrate the Theory of Constraints by:
    1. utilizing the tools of constraint management.
    2. developing Current Reality Trees.
    3. developing Conflict Resolution Diagrams.
    4. developing Future Reality Trees.
    5. drafting Prerequisite Trees and Transition Trees.
    6. describing group dynamics within TOCs.
  4. The student will demonstrate Design of Experiments by:
    1. utilizing the basic statistics of DOE.
    2. utilizing simple comparative experiments.
    3. utilizing two-level factorial design.
    4. defining non-normality via response transformation.
    5. defining general factorial designs.
    6. defining mixture designs.
  5. The student will demonstrate Risk Assessment utilizing Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) by:
    1. defining the purpose of FMEA.
    2. developing a DMEA.
    3. calculating RPN (Risk Priority Number).
    4. participating in an FMEA team exercise.
    5. describing the differences between Product/Design versus Process FMEAs.
  6. The student will demonstrate Mistake-Proofing by:
    1. defining Poka-Yoke, and Zero Quality Control (ZQC).
    2. defining the basic elements of Mistake-Proofing.
    3. participating in an exercise utilizing Mistake-Proofing methods.
  7. The student will demonstrate Target Costing and Value Engineering by:
    1. determining a Six Sigma project selection based on Return on Investment (ROI).
    2. determining future costs and profits.
    3. defining market driven costing.
    4. participating in product-level target costing exercises.
    5. defining ways to improve product and process design.
    6. describing and demonstrating value engineering techniques.
  8. The student will demonstrate the concepts and tools of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) by participating in exercises that develop:
    1. Voice of the Customer (VOC) Matrix.
    2. The House of Quality.
    3. Critical to Quality (CTQ) Trees.
    4. Taguchi’s Quality Loss Function diagrams.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

3 Year Review 2008-certified acceptable content and format. C&I Approval: 03/08/2005, BOT Approval: 04/19/2005, Effective Term: Summer 2005 (350). C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Summer 2017 (530).
C&I Approval: 02/14/2019, BOT Approval: 03/19/2019, Effective Term: Fall 2019 (565)