Lean Management Certification | Lean Expert | Accredited (For all sectors)

NOTE: At the end of this course, students will obtain a certificate of completion from Udemy. Students also have the option to apply for free, optional, extra Lean (Six Sigma) examination and certification. This external, free and optional examination/certification occurs outside the Udemy platform, requires registration (name, email and a link to your relevant Udemy certificate) and is offered by SSAA (Six Sigma Academy Amsterdam) which is an independent, academic-run training and certification institute. Please note that unlike some other subjects, Lean Six Sigma does not have a universally agreed upon body of knowledge, or a universally agreed upon training and certification procedure. We are very open about this issue, because it should be known by every prospective Lean Six Sigma student. Make an informed decision by reviewing your (employer’s) Lean Six Sigma needs/expectations and compare that with what various Lean Six Sigma training institutes are offering in terms of training and certification and subsequently choose the training and certification that best meets those needs.

LEAN (SIX SIGMA)

Lean Six Sigma has a rich history that spans many decades. Lean Six Sigma’s aim is to improve quality whilst cutting costs. Lean Six Sigma is a methodology that is suitable in every single sector, precisely because cutting costs and improving quality is something that is relevant in every sector.

Certified Lean Six Sigma black belt professionals are in high demand because they posses a very useful set of skills. The skill level of Lean Six Sigma professionals is usually shown by a belt color. The toolbox of a certified Lean Six Sigma professional starts modestly as this person becomes a certified Lean Six Sigma white belt. This toolbox gradually increases as this practitioner becomes a certified Lean Six Sigma yellow belt, then a certified Lean Six Sigma green belt and a Lean Six Sigma black belt. The aforementioned sequence is the classic hierarchy in Lean Six Sigma.

Lean is a Japanese methodology that is much older than its American younger sibling, Six Sigma. Unlike Six Sigma, Lean does not have belts. So when you hear that someone is a Lean Six Sigma black belt, this means that this person is a Lean expert and also has a Six Sigma black belt. This being said, Lean and Six Sigma work very well together, a bit like biscuits and tea. And for this reason, almost every Lean specialist is also a Six Sigma specialist and the other way around.

In this course we will teach you the foundations of this old Japanese teaching which is also knows as the Toyota Production System. The parts of Lean that mostly apply to manufacturing, are referred to as Lean Manufacturing and the parts of Lean that are more general in nature are simply referred to as Lean or Lean Management. Here in this course, we discuss them both and this Lean Management and Lean Manufacturing training and certification course is suitable for all sectors.

In our Lean Management and Lean Manufacturing course, you will learn how to identify non value adding activities in a process. You will also learn how to eliminate these with very concrete Lean tools and Lean techniques. When you do that, your organization becomes more ‘Lean’ and you can serve your customers faster and cheaper, whilst still providing the same quality.

The aim was to teach what we already taught offline to university students and make that training more affordable, more accessible, more convenient, whilst making sure that it was practical, fun and easy to grasp. You do not need a particular set of mathematics or statistics skills to keep up. This Lean Six Sigma training is going to be very accessible for people from various educational backgrounds. As part of the BKO accreditation, our curriculum is periodically reviewed and modified if necessary.

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