
BLACK BELT CERTIFICATION IS IDEAL
FOR PROFESSIONALS THAT
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Want to take their career to the next level;
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Want to improve their problem solving skills;
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Want to lead continuous improvement projects with extreme assertiveness;
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Want to learn advanced statistical techniques;
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Want to master soft and hard skills.
ABOUT THE COURSE

60-hour
experience

Black Belt certificate

Live + Recordings
01-year access

BB Exclusive
WhatsApp Group
YOU WILL HAVE ACCESS TO

High Quality Content
All sessions were recorded with high quality content and energy by Prof. Marcelo! Full of Minitab exercises and soft tools/techniques to make you an elite professional! This is a life changing certification program! Estimated total time is 60 hours.

Exclusive WhatsApp Group
There will be an exclusive WhatsApp BB group for discussions, Q&A and networking. I will be part of this group and will be happy to take as many questions as needed to guarantee you are well supported in your learning journey.

5 DMAIC Mentoring Sessions
Prof. Marcelo will be offering 5 mentoring sessions to support your project and/or specific application of LSS tools and techniques in your day-to-day work. This is extremely powerful to help you connecting content to real life.
BLACK BELT MAIN TOPICS
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Black Belt Level-up
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Lean Six Sigma Project Portfolio Management
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Eight Quality Dimensions
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Quality Gurus
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History of Continuous Improvement
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Systems and Processes
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Leadership Support
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Organizational Roadblocks
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Stakeholder Diagnostics
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Stakeholders Styles
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Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
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Benchmarking
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Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
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Return on Investment (ROI)
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Project Charter
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Advanced Voice of the Customer (VOC)
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Critical to Quality (CTQ)
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Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance
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SIPOC
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Advaced Process Mapping Techniques
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Gage R&R
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Attribute Agreement Analysis – Binary Data
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Attribute Agreement Analysis – Nominal Data
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Attribute Agreement Analysis – Ordinal Data
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Linearity
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Bias
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Type 1 Study
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Advanced Capability Analysis
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Box-Cox Transformation
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Johnson Transformation
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Non Parametric Capability Analysis (Cnpk)
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Acceptance Sampling
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Hypothesis Testing
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1 Sample t
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2 Sample t
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Paired t Test
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ANOVA
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1 Proportion
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2 Proportions
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Chi-square Test
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Mood's Median Test
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1 Sample Sign
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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
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Overall Labor Effectiveness (OLE)
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Simple Regression
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Polynomial Regression
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Multiple Regression
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Backwards Elimination
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Best Subsets
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Stepwise
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CART
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Design of Experiments (DOE)
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Full Factorial DOE
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Definitive Screening DOE
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Response Surface Methodology
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Desirability
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Impact Effort Matrix
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Lean Solutions
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One Piece Flow
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Standardization
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SMED
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Waste Identification
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Potential Causes Prioritization
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Action Plan
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I-MR Control Chart
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Xbar-R Control Chart
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Xbar-S Control Chart
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C Chart
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U Chart
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P Chart
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NP Chart
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Control Plan
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Improvement Statistical Validation (Stability, Capability and Significance)
TESTIMONIALS | CERTIFIED BLACK BELT

"I always dreamed about being a Black Belt certified by Prof. Marcelo Fernandes! This certification opened innumerous professional opportunities for me."
Bruno Pradella (Brazil)
Certified Black Belt by Prof. Marcelo Fernandes

"No one can teach Lean Six Sigma like Prof. Marcelo Fernandes. He is a true master and he cares so much about his students."
Marcela Moreno (Mexico)
Certified Black Belt by Prof. Marcelo Fernandes

"He is the best Lean Six Sigma instructor I have ever met."
Susanna Watson (USA)
Certified Black Belt by Prof. Marcelo Fernandes

"Marcelo is an outstanding Professor!"
Matt Wildsmith (United Kingdom)
Certified Black Belt by Prof. Marcelo Fernandes

"I consider Prof. Marcelo as my brother. During the certification process he was so close to me that we became friends! His teaching style is absolutely amazing!"
Tracy Xie (Singapore)
Certified Black Belt by Prof. Marcelo Fernandes

About your professor
Prof. Marcelo Machado Fernandes (PhD)
(PhD, MSc, ASQ CMBB, CSSBB, Scrum Master)



Prof. Marcelo Machado Fernandes (PhD) is an expert in inspiring people to walk the journey of operational excellence! Passionate about the combination of Science and Art, Marcelo believes that simplicity and impact must go hand in hand, with education being the key to any sustainable improvement process.
Electrical engineer (UNIFEI) with master's degree (UNIFEI) and doctorate (UNESP) in Production Engineering and 20 years of experience in multinationals in the manufacturing and services sectors. Led / coached over 500 Lean Six Sigma projects in more than 50 countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. He trained more than 70,000 Yellow, Green, Black and Master Black Belts from more than 100 different nationalities.
He published several articles in conferences and journals, had several Lean Six Sigma projects awarded at Philips, Delphi Automotive Systems and Nielsen. He worked as a Black Belt at Philips Displays, Master Black Belt at Delphi Automotive Systems and as a Global Lean Six Sigma Consultant at Nielsen.
Marcelo developed Nielsen's global continuous improvement program in 2014, and in 2019 the results were recognized by the International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC) as the second best continuous improvement program in the world at OPEX Week in the USA. In 2022 Marcelo won the prestigious Mario Csillag Medal from the Brazilian Academy for Quality.
Marcelo is the main author of the cover story of the respected Quality Progress Journal (ASQ) - Feb / 2019 edition co-authored with Prof. Jiju Antony (considered by Google Scholar as the author with the largest number of publications in Lean Six Sigma in the world).
Marcelo is a Minitab Certified Training Provider and an ASQ Certified Master Black Belt.