SC QUALITY GUILD ACADEMY

Guided certification courses, taught by Q-Bot

Each course is a full program for one certification. Q-Bot talks you through every lesson while the examples build on screen, stops whenever you have a question, hands you an exercise to try, then checks that it stuck. You can type your question, or hold the space bar and ask out loud.

CSSYB

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

5 modules · 32 lessons · about 8–10 hours

The Yellow Belt Body of Knowledge, in the same order as the Six Sigma Yellow Belt Primer: what Six Sigma and lean are, the roles, teams and tools, then Define, Measure, Analyze, and Improve and Control.

  • 27 hands-on exercises: sorters, calculators, simulators
  • A practice check after every lesson, a test after every module
  • The Calderwyn project, followed phase by phase
CSSGB

Six Sigma Green Belt

6 modules · 43 lessons · about 11–13 hours

The whole Green Belt Body of Knowledge, in the same order as the Six Sigma Green Belt Primer: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control, with every calculation worked by hand.

  • 30 hands-on exercises: calculators, sorters, simulators
  • A practice check after every lesson, a test after every module
  • One real case, the Calderwyn bore project, followed phase by phase
CMQ/OE

Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence

7 sections · 54 lessons · about 16–18 hours

Leadership, strategy, management methods, quality tools, customers, suppliers and training, taught at the level a quality leader works at, with real numbers where the Body of Knowledge is numeric.

  • Frameworks that build on screen as they are explained
  • A practice check after every lesson, a test after every section
  • Finance, cost of quality, project and reliability math worked step by step
CQA

Quality Auditor

9 chapters · 44 lessons · about 11–13 hours

Audit practice from start to finish, in the same order as the Quality Auditor Primer: what an audit is, conduct, the quality disciplines, planning, performing, reporting, corrective action, the auditor in the room and running a program.

  • 35 hands-on exercises: sorters, calculators, planners
  • A practice check after every lesson, a test after every chapter
  • The Culwerth audit, followed chapter by chapter
CQIA

Quality Improvement Associate

5 parts · 29 lessons · about 7–9 hours

The improvement toolkit, in the same order as the Quality Improvement Associate Primer: where quality lives, customers and suppliers, the team, finding the cause and making it stick.

  • 24 hands-on exercises: sorters, builders, calculators
  • A practice check after every lesson, a test after every part
  • The Calderwyn project, followed part by part
CQT

Quality Technician

9 parts · 39 lessons · about 10–12 hours

The technician's job at the bench, in the same order as the Quality Technician Primer: shop math and statistics, drawings and GD&T, measuring, calibration and MSA, sampling, process data, root cause and audits.

  • 30 hands-on exercises: calculators, gauges, charts
  • A practice check after every lesson, a test after every part
  • A case study from the book at the end of every part
CQI

Quality Inspector

7 parts · 48 lessons · about 12–14 hours

Inspection done right, in the same order as the Quality Inspector Primer: shop math, reading the drawing, measuring and testing, calibration, making the call, and the tools beyond the station.

  • 41 hands-on exercises: gauge readers, calculators, sorters
  • A practice check after every lesson, a test after every part
  • A case study from the book at the end of every part

How a course works

Start hereA two-minute tour of the program, the lesson flow and your controls.
Watch and listenEach idea is taught with a picture that builds in step with the narration.
Stop and askPause any time, ask Q-Bot, then resume exactly where you left off.
Prove itExercises, a practice check on every lesson and a test at the end of every module.

In development

Instructor-led means Q-Bot teaches every lesson out loud. Self study pairs the primer with a reading plan and practice questions, at your own pace. The practice tests are open to everyone.