Contact Rochester Institute of Technology / CQAS

For additional information contact:

Greg Evershed
Director of Business Development, KGCOE
Phone: 585.475.5442
Email: greg.evershed@rit.edu

Donald Baker
Executive Director, CQAS
Phone: 585.475.5070
Email: ddbcqa@rit.edu
Green Belt Training Program

The RIT CQAS Green Belt training program is the entry level program of the Lean Six Sigma training program that includes active management participation, twelve (12) day Green Belt training, Green Belt project and certification. At least one member of the corporation’s management team is required to attend the Green Belt program overview session.

This Green Belt management overview session includes:

  • Lean and Six Sigma overview
  • Management's responsibility
  • Selecting key projects with leadership support
  • Estimating project value to organization, timing to complete and the resources required
  • Assigning accountability
  • Selecting training participants
  • Managing the projects

Green Belt Training

The Green Belt training program is presented one day a week for consecutive twelve weeks. This program is led by a Lean Six Sigma expert instructor and will involve participants in extensive interactive training. Participants are also exposed in depth to each topic through classroom assignments and structured exercises within team environments.

Green Belt Project

Each Green Belt training program participant is required to complete a project of significant value to their organization. These projects require the completion of a Project Charter that describes the project, details the objectives, lists the project’s team members, includes an estimate of all project costs and a comprehensive project timeline. The Project Charter must be approved by both the organization’s management as well as RIT CQAS. During the training period the participants will present Project progress reports. Pairs of participants from the same organization may be involved with the same project.

The expert Green Belt training program instructors include:


Program Benefits to Corporations – Green Belt Efficiency Experts Provide Increased Knowledge of Quality Improvement Systems

The main benefits of implementing the RIT CQAS Green Belt training program include the elimination of waste, profit improvement, profit development cycle reduction and overall process improvement. The program's key subjects include:

  • Six Sigma & Lean Enterprise Approach to Improvement
  • Change
  • 5-S and Visual Controls
  • Cost of Quality
  • Team Building & Leadership
  • VSM (Value Stream Mapping), Current State
  • Standard Work
  • Solving Process & Tools
  • Cause-Effect Matrix
  • FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)
  • Statistical Thinking
  • Sampling Issues
  • Basic Statistics
  • Components of Variance
  • Measurement Systems Analysis
  • Correlation & Regression Analysis
  • Capability Analysis
  • Control Plans
  • SPC & Control Charts
  • Design of Experiments – Introduction
  • T-tests
  • Line and Cell Design
  • Kaizen Event Training
  • Setup Reduction
  • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
  • Kanban

The RIT CQAS Green Belt program provides in-depth data analysis tools and processes to fully implement the Lean Six Sigma problem solving process that generates superior data driven solutions, productive yields and dramatically improved bottom-line results.