Fall '27 Black Belt Lean course
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Black Belt Lean

Have you completed a Green Belt Lean Six Sigma course, a Lean Manufacturing Champions training or a Process Improvement Methodologies course and want to take it a step further? In the Black Belt Lean course, you’ll delve into the more technical tools from the Lean toolbox.
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This is an open course

Target group

This program is focused on those people who have experience in projects and who are involved in the improvement of complex manufacturing or design processes. A knowledge of Lean and DMAIC is obviously a plus.

Info

Nov 30 & Dec 1-2, 2026

The language of this course is Dutch.

€2,000 (excl VAT)
20% discount starting from second participant of same company.

20% early bird discount (until August 30, 27).


Approach

  • The Black Belt Lean training module consists of 3 consecutive days.
  • This training offers a mix of theoretical foundation and practical exercises and offers the opportunity to exchange experiences with other participants.
  • After the training program, it is possible after agreement, to use a project coaching approach (content coaching, preparation and evaluation of the project story board for certification, ...). 

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What can you expect?

We provide insight into more technical tools from the lean toolbox that have proven to be of great help in solving everyday problems in an industrial environment:

  • Productivity improvements (>20%) in production environments:
    • By installing standard work
    • Through visualisation and load levelling
    • Through line balancing exercises 
  • Breakthrough improvements in quality systems through application of Poka Yoke (Zero defects)
  • How SMED can substantially (>50%) improve rebuild time, but also how to optimise shutdown (preventive maintenance) using the same methodology.
  • Improved supply chain performance (less stock and improved OTIF)
  • How do we organise breakthrough improvement ourselves?
  • How can we deal with complexity and variation in customer demand and gain a strategic advantage?

 


Programme

Recap and deepening of:

  • 5 Lean Principles and different types of wastes
  • Value Stream Mapping
    • Current state 
    • Manufacturing Critical Time path (MCT)
    • Design future state
    • End-to-End value stream mapping
  • Lean toolbox: standard work, OEE, Kaizen, SMED, calculating Kanban, line balancing, load levelling, ...

In addition, we delve further into:

  • Demand analysis (product family portfolio, 'Glenday sieve', ABC-XYZ classification) 
  • Advanced lean toolbox: rhythm wheels, S&OP, scenario thinking
  • Basics of factory physics and system dynamics

Certification

  • Training certificate: you complete the course and achieve a mark of at least 70 per cent in the exam.
  • Black Belt certificate: you then also carry out an improvement project using the Lean methodology. Stanwick can guide you through this process. Following your final presentation, you will receive the Black Belt certificate.

Language

This course will be given in Dutch.


Trainers

Dimitri Reykers
Dimitri Reykers
Operational Excellence – Lean Manufacturing – Problem solving
Tom Van der Straeten
Tom Van der Straeten
Operational Excellence – Factory of the Future – Lean Supply Chain

Testimonials

"It is unbelievable how we can better understand and make our process easier to understand with a very limited number of tests (Design of Experiments)."

Participant

"If statistics were explained in the same practical way in our school study, more people would deal with data more professionally."

Participant

"The importance of statistical process control is seriously underestimated and it is not understandable that it will no longer be applied."

Participant

"A course that I hated at the university suddenly becomes a passion and my most important tool for process improvement."

Participant

"The pallet of tools provided now allows us to find the causes and find solutions for practically all problems."

Participant

"The tools provided in the Green Belt are now also much clearer to us."

Participant

"Unbelievable how ignorant and clumsy we dealt with data before this training."

Participant

Still have questions?
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period

3 days

location

Van der Valk Hotel Gent, Akkerhage 10, 9000 Gent

level

Advanced

contact

academy@stanwick.be

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