The Certified Six SIGMA Black Belt Handbook

by T.M. Kubiak, Donald W. Benbow

The Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook is the most comprehensive reference for all Six Sigma Black Belts (or anyone planning to become a Black Belt) currently available. Written by two uniquely qualified experts, all aspects of Six Sigma are covered, from its value and history to the voice of the customer, project management, all requisite methodologies and tools, testing and analysis, lean enterprise, design for Six Sigma (DFSS), failure mode and effects analysis, and much more. The authors numbered the chapters to align with the body of knowledge specified for the ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt examination - therefore, if you’re struggling with a particular point in the body of knowledge, you can easily refer to the correspondingly numbered chapter or section of the book for explanation and clarification. The CD-ROM that is included with the handbook contains a wide selection of supplementary problems covering each chapter and a simulated Six Sigma Black Belt exam which has problems distributed among the chapters according to the scheme published in the body of knowledge for the ASQ certification.

Genres: Business, Professional Development, Nonfiction, Management

620 pages, Hardcover

First published November 30, 2008

Reviews

[T.M. Mullin · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are lots of errors in this book, looking for them turned out to be a good way to study. I passed the test.

[Mohammed Zaitoun · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is having some errors and everyone knows that but I believe that the book is a good reference for Six sigma black belts for most of the subject, you will need some extra references regarding statistics and Lean principals to master all the topics needed and as advice if you are going for the Exam of CSSBB study from the quality council of Indiana six sigma primer I read both books and passed the exam in 2015

[Ayat Saleh · Rating 4 out of 5]

The layout of the handbook is very organized; however, it was not enough in order to understand all the needed concepts for the Black Belt Level. Depending on your previous educational background and experience, you may need to study other books about statistics, quality management and project management. The other great resource that helped me was the preparation kit from the Quality Council of Indiana. You may still need to get quick information about certain areas such as Design for Environment, Test of Hypothesis and other difficult topics for which I found YouTube was very helpful.
As you may know, there are different ways to get a Six Sigma certificate and there are different levels, i.e. yellow belt, green belt, black belt and master black belt. If you are doing this exam after getting a Green Belt certificate, you will feel that some parts are just repeated from the previous Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Handbook.
As a final note, there might be some errors in the handbook so be careful and double check with other Six Sigma and statistics professionals whenever you have doubts about certain formulas and solved examples.

[Jeremy Farnsworth · Rating 1 out of 5]

There were so many errors in the book between formulas and examples. For a subject matter that focuses on quality either the publisher or Mr. Kubiak and Benbow missed the mark. By the end, I did not trust any example and ended up purchasing Juran's Quality Handbook and Implementing Six Sigma by Breyfogle to corroborate the Certified Six Sigma Handbook.

[Tatsiana Hughes · Rating 4 out of 5]

I passed the test after using this book to prepare for the Black Belt exam, but I think this book could use a bit of improvement. It was a weird mix of topics that were easy and common sense like team building, project management 101, as well as more complex math/statistics topics. I liked the examples, but some were too high-level, like "just plug the numbers to Minitab software" instead of explaining the logic behind formulas, concepts or what the results mean in practice. The latter one was especially missing - it would have been good to tie these examples to real life meaning. Also, the order of certain topics was off - mid way through the book I found myself wondering about certain terms and definitions only to later find them closer to the end of the book. By the way, there were sections in the book that were given for reference only and were not to be tested for during the exam. In reality, I've had two questions where the info from these sections was used for an answer. Overall, this book will prep you, but I did expect more quality from the book that teaches you about it.

[Katherine Zhao · Rating 5 out of 5]

one of the most famous Six Sigma Book

[Katherine Zhao · Rating 5 out of 5]

famous

[Vipul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[Amit Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved the Book especially the way they have explained all critical aspects of Six Sigma with some perfect and simple examples. I highly recommend it to anyone who is into Manufacturing.

[Adam Musthafa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great reference, with useful example and test simulation

[Bibi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Incredibly dry, but very complete textbook on the subject. A must-read for any Black Belt (to be), but it's recommended to read some lighter material as well to put things into perspective. This book is very 'math-focused', meaning it covers every single bit of the analytical theory, but is not exactly a practival handbook. For that I strongly recommend the Lean Six Sigma Toolbook.

[Ilir]

six sigma

[Jon Port]

A must have for CSSBB certification.

[Vasant Giri]

want read first

[Gayathri Devi · Rating 5 out of 5]

yes