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Navy to Launch Lean Six Sigma Certification Process

MILWAUKEE—April 27, 2006—The U.S. Department of the Navy has teamed with the American Society for Quality (ASQ) on a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification process. Since the 1990s, commercial businesses have used Lean Six Sigma methodologies and tools to drive efficiency improvements, increase employee morale, and improve customer satisfaction, according to an ASQ announcement The Navy is collaborating with ASQ to develop a testing standards program, to be administered by ASQ, which is geared to the unique needs of the Navy and Marine Corps team.

“We wanted to take full advantage of the Society’s program and offer a certification based on the Navy’s Body of Knowledge for Black Belts, which integrates Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints,” said Doug Smith, process improvement manager at the Navy and Marine Corps Acquisition Enterprise’s Lean Six Sigma College, in the announcement.

ASQ conducted pilot certification program testing with 50 participants at eight sites around the country at the end of April. It plans to conduct another certification exam in late September for an expected 100 participants.

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