📚 Course Overview
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) equips experienced Lean Six Sigma professionals with the powerful tools and frameworks needed to design new processes, products, and services from the ground up.
Whether you choose our 90-day online access or a 3-day virtual live classroom, this advanced-level training builds on your DMAIC experience and introduces the DMADV roadmap — a structured, results-focused methodology for new design and development projects.
Designed for engineers, designers, managers, technicians and all professionals involved in product or service development, this course helps you reduce costly redesigns, meet customer needs the first time, and accelerate innovation.
💡 What You’ll Learn
This course is structured around the DMADV methodology (Define, Measure, Analyse, Design, Validate) and introduces a wide range of powerful tools and techniques, including:
✅ Origins and purpose of DFSS – when and why to use it
✅ DMADV, IDOV, ICOV methodologies and toll gate checklists
✅ Project initiation and stakeholder management
✅ Advanced Voice of the Customer (VOC), CTS, QFD and the Kano Model
✅ Functional analysis and concept generation
✅ Axiomatic Design, TRIZ, and Design Score Cards
✅ Managing system interfaces and decoupling parameters
✅ Parameter diagrams (P-Diagram)
✅ Transfer functions and design architecture
✅ Regression, hypothesis testing, graphical analysis
✅ Design of Experiments (DOE) and Robust Design principles
✅ Monte Carlo simulation (intro) and Tolerance Design
✅ Design Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
✅ Reliability testing and validation
The course is packed with interactive exercises, games, group work, and case studies, so you gain confidence not just in theory but in real-world application.
🎯 Learning Outcomes
By the end of the DFSS Black Belt Training Course, you will:
✅ Be confident in leading or participating in multi-disciplinary DFSS projects
✅ Use DMADV to design reliable, high-performing products and processes
✅ Identify and integrate customer needs at every stage of design
✅ Apply a complete DFSS toolset to reduce lead times and avoid costly project failures
✅ Use TRIZ, Axiomatic Design, QFD and DFMEA to develop and test robust solutions
✅ Enhance your CV or resume with a prestigious DFSS Black Belt certification
✅ Earn a globally recognised certificate that never expires
👥 Who Should Take This Course?
✅ Lean Six Sigma Green Belts and Black Belts
✅ Product designers and development engineers
✅ Process engineers, quality professionals and technical managers
✅ Anyone involved in new service or process design and innovation
✅ Professionals responsible for project launches and strategic change
Prerequisites: You must be trained to at least Lean Six Sigma Green Belt level and have access to Minitab and a reliable internet connection.
🏆 Certification
✅ End-of-course exam – 30 multiple choice questions
✅ Unlimited retakes – open book
✅ Pass mark: 70%
✅ Certification included in the course price
✅ Unique certificate ID for employer validation
✅ Certification valid for life – no renewal required
Choose Your Format
💻 Online Learning (90 Days)
✅ Learn at your own pace with 24/7 access
✅ Fully interactive eLearning experience
✅ Ideal for busy professionals
🧑🏫 Virtual Classroom (3 Days)
✅ Live tutor-led sessions
✅ Global collaboration in breakout rooms
✅ Runs 9am to 5pm GMT