Black Belt Competencies

1. Utilize Six Sigma tools for selecting projects.

2. Identify an organization’s support structure and what it will take to create organizational culture change.

3. Determine costs and savings using Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) and Cost of Failing to Change (COFTC).

4. Select your Six Sigma Project.

5. Identify potential process improvements using the Supplier-Input-Process-Output-Customer (SIPOC) model.

6. Develop a Voice Of the Customer (VOC) data collection plan for a project.

7. Utilize Minitab and other basic investigative tools.

8. Document a process using either a flowchart or a high level process map.

9. Create a basic control chart to monitor a stable process.

10. Develop a sampling plan for a project.

11. Explain how Theory Of Constraints (TOC) principles can positively impact an organization’s success.

12. Select the correct metric(s).

13. Conduct a value Added Flow Analysis (VAFA).

14. Analyze data to recommend improvement efforts.

15. Complete a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).

16. Analyze sampling distributions.

17. Conduct a Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA).

18. Test a hypothesis.

19. Construct statistical charts.

20. Determine process capability indices for non-normal data.

21. Conduct comparison testing.

22. Solve problems creatively.

23. Benchmark a project’s process with that of another team.

24. Run an experiment using Design Of Experiments (DOE) concepts.

25. Create a control plan development strategy.

26. Integrate lean enterprise concepts and the Six Sigma strategy.

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