Precission’s Professional Certification Seminars are the starting point for corporations needing to systemically advance their R&D processes.
All materials and coursework have been developed by Precission’s staff. All seminars are delivered by a Master Black Belt Certified DFSS instructor.
We combine an array of analytical tools with real-world experience.
As part of our certification, participants are required to complete a project to address a specific need present at your company.
Seminars offer the flexibility to conduct sessions at your location (onsite), or at a nearby location (offsite) to reduce distractions and improve retention. Instructor-to-student ratios are kept low to improve individual interactions.
Stay ahead of your competition by making these seminars a fixture of your ongoing DFSS program with regularly scheduled sessions for onboarding of new engineers and developing your existing staff. Ensure sustained value innovation and derisking of your new product development, now and to maintain your competitive position in the years to come.
DFSS Professional Green Belt Certification
Green Belt certified engineers produce better products that get to market faster with few defects and at lower costs. Better products also sell better. The outcome is enhanced revenues with lower costs and ultimately superior gross margins.
An ongoing DFSS Professional Green belt Certification program at your company is the foundation of sustained derisking of new product R&D, reducing potential defective product litigation and avoiding governmental scrutiny.
Theories and Methodologies
This seminar provides R&D engineers and product managers with the theories, methodologies, and perspectives necessary to ensure innovation systematically focuses on customer and stakeholder requirements.
Meaningful Application
Each participant will submit an Application Project to receive certification. This is their opportunity to demonstrate knowledge advancement with meaningful application and receive inciteful feedback from an experienced expert.
Agenda and Key Practices for Green Belt Certification
Precission merges three distinct mental models, each with a specific purpose and proven methodologies, into a comprehensive program designed to produce real results.
Value Innovation
Gathering and confirming a project’s top priorities. Using a focused innovative approach to address these priorities and deliver the best value to the customer.
Engineering Quality and Robust Design
Using a statistical approach to understand the probability of success of the Designs parameters. Characterizing and optimizing the critical design parameters through statistical modeling resulting in Robust designs
Design for Manufacture and Assembly
Ensuring our designs are balanced appropriately between function, performance and fit, and manufacturing capability resulting in low-cost and high-quality production process.
This is a two-week seminar conducted over a two-month period. Week 1 in one month. Week 2 in the following month.
Week 1
Value Innovation
* Voice of the Customer/Stakeholder: clarity, prioritization and confirmation of top priorities
* Strategy and Planning: Theory and planning for Apex Innovation™
* Requirements Flow: Improve the quality of project requirements
* Use Environment: Improve the quality of project use conditions
Engineering Quality and Robust Design – Part 1
* Design Capability: Probability of success for design function/performance
* Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA) – accuracy and precision of measurement equipment
* Hypothesis Testing: Comparisons of statistical sample parameters for 1 or more samples
* Linear Regression: Correlation and development of statistical regression equations
Week 2
Engineering Quality and Robust Design – Part 2
* Robust Design: Improving product robustness/quality under challenging conditions
* Designed Experiments: Highly efficient experiments for characterizing and optimizing designs
* Predictive Engineering/Monte Carlo: Use of transfer functions to develop statistical models to optimize designs and tolerances
* Design for Reliability: Design for quality over time (planning, models and allocation, and testing)
Design for Manufacture and Assembly
* Statistical Tolerance: Stochastic modeling for assigning and allocating difficult tolerances
* DFMA: Design for Manufacture and Assembly (focused on cost, quality and simplicity)
* Managing Risk: Management of product and project risk to improve project outcomes
* Control Theory and Application: Ensuring your design has adequate control in manufacturing
DFSS Professional Black Belt Certification
Precission’s DFSS Black Belt Certification program goes far deeper into dozens of tools and practices used in DFSS, providing greater clarity into not only the how but also the why and when.
Learn from experience
Precission bridges the gap between technical knowledge and real-world experience. Too many DFSS instructors have never been engineers. Not with Precission. We have practiced what we preach. And it does make a difference. We know how to combine the expertise of academics with a functioning R&D department in a business environment.
Strategic Leadership
Your DFSS Professional Black Belt Certification is the bridge between Green Belt technical expertise and longer-term strategic R&D leadership. Black Belt Certified personnel are just one step removed from their full Master Black Belt Certification, at which point your DFSS program can be carried out entirely by in-house staff.