Date/Time
Date(s) - April 17th, 2023 - April 18th, 2023
8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Location
Manufacturers Resource Center

7200A Windsor Drive
Allentown, PA 18106
Directions

This class is full. Please click here to register for our newly added class that starts on May 22.  

April  17-18, 2023
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Manufacturers Resource Center Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification course is an intensive 2-day analytical and process-focused training program focused on improving business processes using the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) approach.

Participants will create process maps, fishbone diagrams, understand basic statistical measures, complete data demographics exercises, measure and analyze process capability, construct Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts using Minitab statistical software.

Course Highlights

Six Sigma Metrics Process Capability and Analysis Minitab Introduction Hypothesis Testing Data Demographics Managing Change Learn and Apply DMAIC Tools Hands-on Exercises

Who Should Attend

Those seeking to understand and apply the structured data driven problem solving DMAIC methodology to business processes with the focus on improving results and reducing waste.

Yellow Belt Training Topics

• • Day 1 | DEFINE
    Project Charter, SIPOC, Voice of Customer, Multi-level Pareto (Minitab Introduction)
  • Days 1 & 2 | MEASURE
    Six Sigma Metrics (card drop exercise), Basic Stats (Graphical Summary, Histogram, Dotplots, Boxplots, Time Series), Basic Tools (Process Map, Fishbone Diagram, XY Matrix, FMEA)
    Common and Special Causes, Process Capability Analysis (catapult exercise),
    MSA (Gage and Attribute R&R)
  • Day 2 | ANALYZE
    Hypothesis Testing, Basic Tools – 1-Sample t, 2-Sample t, Paired t, 1Proportion, 2 Proportions, Power and Sample size
  • Day 2 | Intro to IMPROVE and CONTROL
    Time Series and Control Charts, Control and Reaction Plan

Essential Course Requirements and Prerequisites

A laptop with the free 30-day Minitab trial software must be installed no earlier than one week prior to attendance. There are no prerequisites to take this course.

Questions? Contact Nicole Pierce at (484) 655-4873 or nicole.pierce@mrcpa.org.

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Instructor | Richard Titus, Jr., Ph.D. – Titus Consulting

Richard is a Master Black Belt who spent nearly 20 years at Ingersoll-Rand in a variety of positions ranging from operations management, information systems, materials management, manufacturing engineering, design engineering, and more.  Dr. Titus was certified as a Black Belt and Master Black Belt by Six Sigma Qualtec.  He completed executive training with the Mahler Institute, Demand Flow Technology training at the John Costanza Institute of Technology and completed Lean Training with Six Sigma Qualtec and is a certified nuclear auditor and a certified trainer for DDI.  Dr. Titus earned a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Lehigh University and has been a lecturer or adjunct faculty member with Lehigh’s College of Business since 2000.  He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University in May 2019 focusing his research on supplier selection.  Dr. Titus has supported over 350 Lean Six Sigma projects in over 50+ companies resulting in over $50 million dollars of real savings.

Note: All registration fees must be received in advance of the date of your event. MRC must be notified two weeks in advance of this event if you need to cancel, otherwise we can only grant a credit to another MRC event. Remember, you can also send a substitute.

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