Lean Six Sigma Training Malaysia

The short version

Agile Visa runs Lean Six Sigma training at every level: Yellow Belt (2 days), Green Belt (5 days), Black Belt (10 days) and Master Black Belt (5 days), in-house or live online, built around real problems from your own processes. Certification is your choice: everyone receives an Agile Visa certificate of completion, and independent certification exams can be added when you need them. HRD Corp Claimable for eligible employers. Quotes on request. Updated October 2026.

Lean Six Sigma training at a glance

	What we offer
Belts	Yellow Belt 2 days, Green Belt 5 days, Black Belt 10 days in two blocks, Master Black Belt 5 days, and a 1 day session for leaders.
Lean workshops	Lean fundamentals, value stream mapping and Kaizen, on their own or with a belt.
Format	Private classes for your company, at your premises anywhere in Malaysia or live online.
Class size	Up to 25 people, each working on a real process or project.
Certification	Optional. Everyone receives an Agile Visa Certificate of Completion, and independent exams are added when you need them.
HRD Corp	HRD Corp Claimable for eligible employers, applied for before the class. See how your company claims.
Price	Quoted per group on request, with any exam fee on its own line.

What is Lean Six Sigma?

Lean removes waste and delay from a process: waiting, rework, extra steps and needless handovers. Six Sigma cuts errors and variation using data, so results become predictable. Lean Six Sigma uses both.

Projects follow five steps, known as DMAIC: Define the problem, Measure how the process performs today, Analyse the real causes, Improve the process and test the change, and Control it so the gain lasts.

Belts show the depth of skill. Yellow Belts improve their own work and join projects. Green Belts lead projects alongside their day job. Black Belts lead complex projects and coach Green Belts. Master Black Belts run the whole improvement programme and teach the others.

Which belt is right for you?

You can start at Yellow or Green Belt. Black Belt and Master Black Belt build on real project experience.

Belt	Length	Your role afterwards	Who it is for	Certification options
Yellow Belt	2 days, 14 hours	Team member: spots waste, joins Kaizens, improves own area	Anyone who improves their own work: production, quality, nursing, sales, HR, finance and shared services	Agile Visa certificate, plus the free online 6sigmastudy Six Sigma Yellow Belt exam if you want it
Green Belt	5 days, 35 hours	Project leader: leads DMAIC projects part time, with data	Engineers, supervisors, analysts and managers who will lead projects	Agile Visa certificate, plus an optional independent Green Belt exam
Black Belt	10 days, 70 hours, in two blocks	Programme expert: leads complex, cross site projects and coaches Green Belts	Green Belts with at least two completed projects and measured results	Agile Visa certificate, plus an optional independent Black Belt exam
Master Black Belt	5 days, 35 hours	Programme leader: runs the improvement programme, trains and coaches the belts	Experienced Black Belts who will lead the programme	Agile Visa certificate; external certification on request
Leaders and sponsors	1 day, 7 hours	Sponsor: chooses projects and clears blockers	Managers who sponsor improvement projects	Agile Visa certificate

Moving up: Yellow to Green after contributing to at least one Kaizen, with a project idea and a sponsor. Green to Black after at least two completed projects with measured results. Black to Master Black Belt after leading several projects and coaching Green Belts.

What each belt covers, day by day

Open each belt to see the plan. We tailor examples and exercises to your industry.

Yellow Belt agenda2 days · 14 training hours

Hands on, with a Kaizen on a real process. Course page: Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt.

Day 1, morning
Lean Six Sigma basics and the eight wastes
DMAIC, belts and roles, the cost of poor quality, the voice of the customer, and a factory simulation that makes waste visible in hospitals, offices and production.
Day 1, afternoon
Flow, 5S and defining the problem
Flow, pull, 5S and visual management, then a project charter, a SIPOC and a value stream map of a real process.
Day 2, morning
Measure and analyse
Data collection plans, check sheets, Pareto and run charts, then fishbone, 5 Whys, basic FMEA and understanding variation.
Day 2, afternoon
Improve, control and a Kaizen
Mistake proofing, standard work and control plans, then a Kaizen on a real process written up as a one page A3.

Green Belt agenda5 days · 35 training hours · one DMAIC phase a day

Each participant works on a real project all week, and each day ends with a tollgate review. Course page: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.

Day 1
Define
Six Sigma fundamentals, choosing the right project, the voice of the customer, SIPOC, Lean, 5S and value stream mapping. Tollgate: a signed project charter.
Day 2
Measure
Process maps, cause and effect, statistics for decisions, measurement system analysis and process capability. Tollgate: a trusted baseline.
Day 3
Analyse
Patterns of variation, confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for normal and non-normal data. Tollgate: a root cause proven with data.
Day 4
Improve
Correlation and regression, designing solutions, mistake proofing, standard work and safe pilots. Tollgate: a tested solution.
Day 5
Control
Lean controls, Kanban and visual management, statistical process control, control plans and handover, and a timed practice exam. Tollgate: a control plan.

Black Belt agenda10 days · 70 training hours · two blocks of 5 days

Two blocks of five days with 3 to 4 weeks of project work in between, so each participant brings real data to block 2. Course page: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

Day 1
Leading improvement
Deployment and roles, choosing projects that matter, the business case and financial benefits, stakeholders and change.
Day 2
Define and Lean in depth
Voice of the customer, CTQ trees, value stream analysis, flow and pull, quick changeover and total productive maintenance.
Day 3
Measure
Data collection plans, measurement system analysis for continuous and attribute data, and capability for normal and non-normal data.
Day 4
Analyse 1
Hypothesis tests, ANOVA, non parametric tests, multi vari studies, sample size and power.
Day 5
Analyse 2
Correlation, simple and multiple regression and an introduction to logistic regression. Tollgate: project review before block 2.
Day 6
Designed experiments 1
Planning experiments, full factorial designs, main effects and interactions.
Day 7
Designed experiments 2
Fractional factorials, screening, blocking, and confirming the results.
Day 8
Improve
Generating and choosing solutions, FMEA, mistake proofing, piloting and managing risk.
Day 9
Control
Statistical process control for every data type, control plans, standard work and sustaining the gain.
Day 10
Leading the programme
Coaching Green Belts, running tollgate reviews and presenting results to leadership. Tollgate: final project review.

Master Black Belt agenda5 days · 35 training hours · for experienced Black Belts

For the person who will run your improvement programme, coach the belts and teach. Course page: Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Day 1
Strategy and governance
Linking projects to strategy, building the project portfolio, roles, governance and tracking benefits.
Day 2
Advanced analytics
Advanced designed experiments, regression in depth, and choosing the right tool for messy, real world data.
Day 3
Coaching and mentoring
Coaching Black and Green Belts, running tollgate reviews and rescuing projects that have stalled.
Day 4
Teaching Lean Six Sigma
Designing training, teach back practice, assessing projects and setting your internal certification standard.
Day 5
Leading culture change
Building a continuous improvement culture, measuring programme results and a capability roadmap for your organisation.

Is Lean Six Sigma certification included?

We are independent. Agile Visa is a training provider. We are not accredited by, or a partner of, any exam body. Each exam body sets its own exam and issues its own certificate.
Our certificate. Every participant who completes a course receives an Agile Visa Certificate of Completion. Many companies train without exams and track results through real projects instead.
Yellow Belt exam. After the course you can take the free online Six Sigma Yellow Belt (SSYB) exam on the 6sigmastudy website. 6sigmastudy runs the exam and issues the certificate. It has 40 multiple choice questions in 60 minutes, you need 28 correct answers to pass, and it is not supervised.
Green Belt and Black Belt exams. After the course you can sit an independent, closed book certification exam, taken online with remote supervision. The exam body marks it and issues the certificate, not Agile Visa. We can arrange the exam for you, quoted as a separate line.
Master Black Belt. Few exam bodies certify Master Black Belts, so we discuss the options with you before the programme starts.
No shortcuts. You do not need our course, or any course, to sit these exams, and finishing a course does not by itself make you certified.

Source for the Yellow Belt exam: 6sigmastudy, Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Checked 15 October 2026.

From classroom to workplace

The first 90 days after the training, so the certificate comes with a real result.

When	Yellow Belts	Green Belts
Training week	Two days of training and a Kaizen in class	Five days of training, project started
Week 2	Optional online exam	Optional exam
Day 30	A Kaizen in their own area, reviewed by the manager	Charter and baseline approved by the sponsor
Day 60	A second improvement, shared with the team	Root cause proven at the Analyse review
Day 90	Results shown at a Kaizen showcase	Results and control plan presented to leadership

Applying it at work

Starter examples. Each class picks its own real process with you before the training.

Team	Yellow Belt: improve my own area	Green Belt: lead a measured project
Quality and operations	5S and visual boards in stores and work areas	Shorten corrective action closure time
Sales and marketing	Organise demo kits and samples so nothing is lost or expired	Cut quote and tender turnaround time
Customer service and supply	Fewer order entry errors with a simple checklist	Reduce backorders and late deliveries
Human resources	Simplify the onboarding steps for new joiners	Cut the time to hire for hard to fill roles
Hospitals and clinical teams	Shorten the time to log and act on a complaint	Reduce cancelled sessions and waiting time

How we measure success

Reaction

Did people value it? End of course feedback from every participant.

Learning

Did they learn it? Daily quizzes, the Kaizen A3, tollgate reviews and exam results where you choose exams.

Behaviour

Do they use it at work? Kaizens and projects completed at the 30, 60 and 90 day check points.

Results

Did the business improve? Measured gains in time, errors, complaints or cost.

Keeping improvement going

Weekly huddle

A 10 minute team stand up at a visual board: problems seen, ideas and actions.

Monthly Kaizen

One improvement per team, led by a Yellow Belt and sponsored by a Green Belt.

Reviews every 30 days

Sponsors run tollgate reviews until each Green Belt project closes.

Quarterly showcase

Teams present results to leadership, and the best are recognised.

A day for leaders and sponsors

Projects succeed or stall on sponsorship. This one day session shows managers how to choose projects that matter, set clear goals, run short reviews at the end of each DMAIC step and clear the blockers their Green Belts meet. It works best in the week before a Green Belt class starts.

Lean and quality programmes

Run on their own or combined with a belt programme. Each one runs as a private programme for your company.

Six Sigma belts

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt2 days / 14 hoursTwo hands on days, from the eight wastes to a Kaizen on a real process.
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt5 days / 35 hoursOne DMAIC phase a day on your own project.
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt10 days / 70 hoursAdvanced statistics, designed experiments and leading complex projects, in two blocks.
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt5 days / 35 hoursStrategy, coaching, teaching and leading the improvement programme.

Lean and continuous improvement

Lean Fundamentals and Waste Elimination2 days / 14 hoursWalk a real process, find the waste in it and put a value on removing it.
Value Stream Mapping Workshop1 day / 7 hoursMap one end to end process, design the future state and cost the improvement plan.
Kaizen and Continuous Improvement Facilitation1 day / 7 hoursRun an improvement workshop that changes the process, not just a list of ideas.

Quality

Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action1 day / 7 hoursProve why something failed, then write corrective actions that close.
Statistical Process Control for Supervisors1 day / 7 hoursControl charts from real numbers, with no statistics background needed.
Quality Management Systems and ISO 9001 Practice2 days / 14 hoursA quality management system that people follow, not a shelf of documents.
Internal Quality Auditor Skills1 day / 7 hoursAudit a process and write findings that people act on.

Why Lean Six Sigma matters in Malaysia

Electrical and electronics

E&E products were 44.3% of Malaysia's exports in 2025, worth RM 711.44 billion. Yield, scrap and cycle time decide margins on every line.

Medical devices

Medical device exports reached RM 34.54 billion in 2025, with a target of more than RM 50 billion by 2030. Quality systems are a licence to operate.

Shared services and banks

Malaysia had 749 global business services firms by mid 2025, most of them in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, where error rates and turnaround times are the product.

National productivity target

The 13th Malaysia Plan aims for labour productivity growth of 3.6% a year from 2026 to 2030.

Sources: Bernama, E&E exports; Bernama, medical devices; University of Nottingham Malaysia, GBS report; The Sun, 13th Malaysia Plan. Checked 15 October 2026.

Where in Malaysia we run Lean Six Sigma training

At your premises anywhere in Malaysia, so teams can walk their own process, or live online.

Penang and Kedah

Bayan Lepas, Batu Kawan, Seberang Perai and the Kulim Hi-Tech Park, for electronics, semiconductor and medical device plants.

Kuala Lumpur and Selangor

Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Shah Alam, Klang, Subang Jaya and Cyberjaya, for banks, shared service centres, hospitals, logistics hubs and factories.

Johor

Johor Bahru, Iskandar Puteri, Pasir Gudang, Senai and Pengerang, for manufacturing, petrochemical and data centre operations. Agile Visa Sdn Bhd is registered in Johor Bahru.

Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Perak

Factories, hospitals and service centres in Melaka, Nilai, Seremban, Senawang and Ipoh.

Pahang and Terengganu

Process plants and operations in Kuantan, Gebeng, Kerteh and Kemaman.

Sabah and Sarawak

Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Bintulu and Samalaju, with travel planned as part of the programme.

Live online

For teams spread across sites, with the same trainer, materials and project reviews.

Is Lean Six Sigma training HRD Corp claimable?

HRD Corp Claimable. Agile Visa Sdn Bhd is an HRD Corp Registered Training Provider, and these programmes are HRD Corp Claimable for employers registered with HRD Corp.
Apply before the class. Your company applies for the grant in eTRiS under the HRD Corp Claimable Courses scheme, using our quotation, trainer profile and schedule. HRD Corp must approve an in-house grant at least 14 days before the first day, and decides on every application.
The limits. For in-house training, HRD Corp's course fee limit is RM 10,500 per group for a 7 hour day. The approved fee is paid to us from your levy, so you do not pay that part upfront. Anything above the limits, or not approved, is paid by your company.
Attendance. Each participant must attend at least 75% of the training hours for the claim to be paid.
Exam fees. HRD Corp can accept certification and exam fees quoted by the exam body as a separate line in a grant. We confirm with you which parts of the fee can go into your application before you apply.
Class size. We run classes of up to 25 people so everyone works on a real problem. That also fits HRD Corp's group limit for technical courses.

Step by step: the HRD Corp claim flow.

Sources: HRD Corp Allowable Cost Matrix, ACM FAQ to Employer's Circular 3/2024, grant approval timing and HRD Corp Claimable Courses. Checked 15 October 2026. HRD Corp decides every grant and claim.

Who leads the training?

Programmes are led by founder Prashant Shinde, an HRD Corp Accredited Trainer with more than 20 years of training and coaching. He earned the 6sigmastudy Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Six Sigma Green Belt in 2016.

Questions about Lean Six Sigma training in Malaysia

What is Lean Six Sigma, in simple words?

A practical way to improve work. Lean removes waste and delay, Six Sigma uses data to cut errors and variation, and projects follow five steps: Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control.

Which belts do you offer?

Yellow Belt (2 days), Green Belt (5 days), Black Belt (10 days in two blocks) and Master Black Belt (5 days), plus a one day session for leaders and sponsors.

Which belt should I start with?

Yellow Belt if you want to improve your own work and support projects. Green Belt if you will lead projects. Black Belt once you have led at least two projects with measured results.

Can I go straight to Green Belt?

Yes. The exam bodies we prepare people for set no prerequisite for Green Belt, and day 1 of the course covers the basics.

Is certification included?

Certification is your choice. Every participant receives an Agile Visa Certificate of Completion, and we can add an independent exam for Yellow, Green or Black Belt. The Yellow Belt exam from 6sigmastudy is free.

Which certificate will I get, and who issues it?

Everyone who completes a course receives an Agile Visa Certificate of Completion. If you pass an exam, the exam body issues its own certificate, not Agile Visa.

Is Lean Six Sigma training HRD Corp claimable?

Yes, for employers registered with HRD Corp. Your company applies in eTRiS before the class starts, and HRD Corp decides on every application.

Is the exam fee claimable too?

HRD Corp can accept certification and exam fees quoted by the exam body as a separate line in a grant. Whether yours is approved depends on how the course is registered and on HRD Corp, so we confirm it with you before you apply.

Do I need a project to get certified?

Not for the Yellow Belt or Green Belt exams. We still build each course around a real process, and suggest one Kaizen within 30 days and a project within 90 days.

Do I need Minitab or strong statistics?

No for Yellow and Green Belt: Excel is enough, and the statistics are taught step by step. Black Belts benefit from Minitab or similar software, which we use if your company has it.

Online or classroom?

Both run live with the trainer. In-house classroom works best for Kaizen on a real process. HRD Corp treats live online training the same way as face to face for claims.

How much does Lean Six Sigma training cost in Malaysia?

We quote each programme on request, per group for in-house training, within HRD Corp's limits, with any exam fee on its own line. Tell us the belt, the number of people and the location.

Can you run it at our site in Penang, Kulim or Johor?

Yes. We run programmes in-house anywhere in Malaysia, including Penang, Kulim, the Klang Valley, Johor, Melaka, Ipoh, Kuantan, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu, or live online.

What is the difference between Lean and Six Sigma?

Lean removes waste and delay from a process, such as waiting, rework and extra steps. Six Sigma uses data to cut errors and variation. Lean Six Sigma combines both, so a process becomes faster and more reliable at the same time.

Is Lean Six Sigma certification recognised in Malaysia?

There is no single official body for Lean Six Sigma, in Malaysia or anywhere else. Employers look at who issued the certificate, whether the exam was independent and supervised, and whether the person completed a real project. Our courses give you a real project and an Agile Visa certificate of completion, and an independent exam when you want one.

How long does it take to become a Green Belt?

The Green Belt course is 5 days. If you choose the exam, you can sit it soon after the course. A first project usually shows results in about 90 days.

Does Lean Six Sigma work outside manufacturing?

Yes. Hospitals, banks, shared service centres, logistics companies and government agencies use it to cut waiting times, errors and rework. We tailor the examples to your industry.

How many people can join one class?

Up to 25, so everyone works on a real process or project. Larger groups run as several classes.

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