CI Certification

CI Certification

Continuous Improvement is the best of Lean, Six Sigma, Quality, People & Team, and Managing Change knowledge, skills, and abilities. CI belt certifications are milestones on the journey to high-performance.

The Value of Continuous Improvement Certification

What are all these Belts people talk about?!

Read and watch here to better understand the role, levels, knowledge, skills, and benefits of being a certified continual quality improvement practitioner.
  • What is a certified CQI White, Yellow, Green, and Black Belt?
  • What level is best for you?
  • The value these certifications create.
The Value of Certification

CI Belts Overview

WHITE BELT: 
Introduction to Continual Improvement
  • Understand and practice applying team, lean, quality, and six sigma methods to see the value and forms of waste in work, and appreciate the amount of positive change that can be made in a short time
  • 4-hour virtual or 8-hour with simulation.
White Belt
YELLOW BELT: 
Individual Contributor

Personally create improvement benefits using the improvement process and core skills:
  • Understand and practice applying team, lean, quality, and six sigma methods to see the value and forms of waste in work, and appreciate the amount of positive change that can be made in a short time (with simulation)
  • How to apply the improvement process to a project step by step
  • 2 training days + application coaching and certification
Yellow Belt
GREEN BELT: 
Project Leader

Lead teams through successful improvement projects using foundational problem-solving methods:
  • Project Leadership (prISMTM, aka 4D, A3)
  • Understand the current state (process mapping and basic statistics)
  • Problem Solving (aka Cause & Effect Analysis, 5W/3H, 5M, A3)
  • Managing change and continually improving
  • 4 training days + application coaching and certification
Green Belt
BLACK BELT: 
Improvement Champion

Create significant organization improvements and benefits by leading teams through eliminating specific wastes and problems with targeted improvement methods:
  • Six Sigma Black Belt (includes QFD)
  • Kaizen
  • 5S + Visual Controls
  • Mistake Proofing (includes FMEA)
  • Quick Change, Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
  • One-piece Flow, takt time, Kanban
  • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
  • Value Engineering (VE) and Design for Excellence (Df(x))
  • Innovation
  • Product Development
  • Annual Improvement Planning
Black Belt +
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