Is this an official Green Belt certification?

No. It teaches the Green Belt body of knowledge; accredited belts are issued by certification bodies.

Which FMEA method is taught?

The AIAG-VDA FMEA handbook method.

Is there a free course on the automotive core tools?

Yes. SPC and MSA, APQP and PPAP, and Automotive FMEA together cover the core tools suppliers are asked for, and the IATF 16949 course shows how they are audited.

Is the Black Belt course an official certification?

No. It covers the Black Belt body of knowledge and prepares you for exams such as ASQ CSSBB; the EDWartens certificate is a certificate of completion.

Is it only for manufacturing?

The examples come from manufacturing, but the methods carry over to other sectors.

Is it free, and is there a certificate?

Every lesson, note and assessment is free. The EDWartens certificate is optional and paid, and you can finish without it.

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Free Six Sigma and quality courses with certificate

Free quality and operational excellence courses: Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt, SPC and MSA, APQP and PPAP, AIAG-VDA FMEA, IATF 16949 and ISO 14001 internal auditing, Lean with OEE and TPM, machine vision inspection, and OEE dashboards in Power BI.

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14 courses · 189 modules · 126h 26m of video · Updated 1 November 2026

Learners at a panel wiring bench at the EDWartens Electronic City centre

FreeManufacturing excellenceBeginner

Lean Manufacturing, OEE and TPM

The shop-floor half of manufacturing excellence, built in the order a line is actually improved: value and the eight wastes, gemba walks and bottlenecks, lead time and takt time, value stream mapping, flow and cells, pull and kanban sizing, standard work and 5S. Then the two numbers a plant manager is judged on. OEE calculated from a real shift, the six big losses behind it, quick changeover, and total productive maintenance through its eight pillars and twelve implementation steps.

Calculate availability, performance, quality and OEE from one shift of real line data
Split a shift of downtime across the six big losses and name the one costing most
Draw a current-state value stream map with observed data boxes, then a future state you can reach

15 modules 10h 45mView course

FreeQuality managementIntermediate

Automotive Core Tools: FMEA (AIAG-VDA 1st Edition)

The core tool an automotive customer audits hardest, taught to the 2019 AIAG-VDA handbook: the seven-step method, the five T's, the three-level structure tree, functions written so the failures fall out of them, effect against mode against cause, prevention against detection controls, the severity, occurrence and detection tables, the Action Priority table that replaced RPN, optimisation with owners and dates, results documentation, a reverse check on the shop floor and the supplemental FMEA-MSR.

Scope a PFMEA with the five T's and set a boundary you can defend to a customer
Build the three-level structure tree and write every function as verb, noun and requirement
Place failure effect, mode and cause at the right level so the argument about which is which stops

8 modules 3h 24mView course

FreeQuality managementIntermediate

Six Sigma Green Belt Training for Manufacturing

Free Six Sigma Green Belt course for production and quality staff: run DMAIC with Gage R&R, Cpk, tests and control charts. The certificate is optional and paid.

Turn a month of reject data into DPU, DPMO and a sigma level, and cost the problem
Fix a project with a one-page charter and a SIPOC, and write CTQs that carry a unit, a target and limits
Run a crossed Gage R&R and judge the gauge by percent study variation and number of distinct categories

15 modules 10h 59mView course

FreeQuality managementBeginner

ISO 9001:2026 Quality Management and Internal Auditing

Free course for QA and QC engineers: ISO 9001:2026 clause by clause, and internal auditing to ISO 19011:2026. The certificate is optional and paid.

Explain what changed in ISO 9001:2026 and plan the transition before 30 September 2029
Analyse context, interested parties, climate change and scope, and map the processes of a QMS
Test leadership, quality culture, ethical behaviour and the quality policy with evidence

15 modules 9h 12mView course

FreeQuality managementBeginner

Electrical and Instrumentation QA/QC Inspection

Inspect electrical and instrumentation construction the way an EPC site expects: the QA/QC role and the ITP, method statements and inspection requests, material receiving, cable containment and laying, glanding and terminations, insulation resistance and continuity records, earthing and bonding, equipment and instrument installation, loop checks from the QC side, NCRs, punch lists and the handover dossier.

Explain who inspects whose work on an EPC project and what the E&I inspector may and may not decide
Write ITP lines with clauses, measurable criteria and hold, witness, review and surveillance points
Inspect E&I material on receipt and decide accept, hold or reject on a material inspection report

13 modules 7h 10mView course

FreeQuality managementBeginner

Welding Inspection and Mechanical QA/QC with NDT Basics

What a mechanical QA/QC inspector checks on a fabrication or piping job: the welding processes, joints and welding symbols, WPS, PQR and welder qualification, weld imperfections and visual inspection with gauges, destructive tests, penetrant, magnetic particle, radiographic and ultrasonic testing, material certificates and traceability, hydrotests, and the ITPs, NCRs and reports that record it all.

Read an inspection and test plan and say who inspects what, and where work stops at a hold point
Explain how SMAW, GTAW, GMAW, FCAW and SAW work and calculate heat input from the welding parameters
Read welding symbols to ISO 2553 and AWS A2.4, including the arrow side and other side conventions

15 modules 7h 49mView course

FreeQuality managementAdvanced

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

The step after Green Belt: how a Black Belt chooses and charters projects tied to business goals, plans data collection and handles non-normal data, tests hypotheses in depth with power and sample size, runs one-way and two-way ANOVA, fits multiple and logistic regression, designs full and fractional factorial experiments, applies Lean flow and pull, hands over with a control plan, leads change and coaches Green Belts, and finishes with a full DMAIC case.

Rank and charter projects against business goals with the benefit stated in cost units
Plan data collection, size samples and handle non-normal data with transforms or rank-based tests
Run t-tests, paired tests, proportion, chi-square and Mann-Whitney tests with power and sample size

13 modules 13h 46mView course

FreeQuality managementBeginner

SPC and MSA: Control Charts, Capability and Gauge R&R

Statistical process control and measurement system analysis worked with real arithmetic: variation and rational subgroups, X-bar and R, X-bar and S, individuals and attribute charts, run rules and reaction plans, Cp, Cpk, Pp and Ppk with confidence, and gauge R&R by average and range and by ANOVA, with attribute agreement, finishing with how SPC and MSA sit in APQP, PPAP and IATF 16949.

Explain variation and choose rational subgroups and sampling plans
Build X-bar and R, X-bar and S, individuals and attribute control charts with the right constants
Apply run rules and write a reaction plan for a signal

15 modules 9h 18mView course

FreeQuality managementBeginner

IATF 16949 Automotive QMS and Internal Auditing

What IATF 16949 adds to ISO 9001 for car parts suppliers, customer specific requirements, the automotive process approach, product safety, supplier and production controls, change control, SPC and problem solving, then internal auditing practice: a risk-based audit programme, shop-floor interviews, audit trails through the core tools and graded nonconformity statements.

Explain how IATF 16949:2016 is used with ISO 9001 and what customer specific requirements and Sanctioned Interpretations are
Draw a turtle diagram and test automotive risk analysis, product safety and contingency plans
Check competence, calibration and laboratory evidence, and handle a gauge found out of tolerance

13 modules 8h 45mView course

FreeQuality managementBeginner

ISO 14001 Environmental Management and Internal Auditing

Build and audit an environmental management system to ISO 14001:2026: context and scope, leadership and policy, environmental aspects and impacts with scored significance, the life-cycle perspective, compliance obligations and the legal register, risks, opportunities and objectives, competence and documented information, operational control and spill drills, monitoring with worked indicators, internal audit to ISO 19011, management review, corrective action and the certification audit journey.

Explain what an EMS is and what an ISO 14001:2026 certificate shows
Set context, interested parties and scope, and write an environmental policy
Score environmental aspects and name the significant ones with a written rule

15 modules 9h 49mView course

FreeQuality managementBeginner

APQP, Control Plan and PPAP

The automotive launch discipline in plain steps: the five APQP phases and gate reviews, special characteristics, the process flow, PFMEA and Control Plan chain, Safe Launch and reaction plans, the 18 PPAP elements and five submission levels, the part submission warrant, run at rate with a capacity calculation, and what to do when a submission is rejected or a change is made.

Explain why APQP exists and name its five phases, outputs and gate reviews
Build a launch timing plan backwards from the start of production and find its critical path
Turn customer needs into measurable requirements and special characteristics

12 modules 7h 54mView course

FreeAI and machine learningIntermediate

Machine Vision and Quality Inspection

The whole inspection station, not just the model: cameras, lenses, lighting and triggers that make the image; classical tools for what can be measured; deep learning for what can only be shown; datasets and labelling; training, evaluating and exporting a YOLO defect detector; and deploying it beside a PLC that keeps the reject decision.

Turn feature size, field of view and belt speed into pixels, exposure and a lens focal length
Choose backlight, dark-field, dome or structured light by measured contrast, not opinion
Build the timing budget to the rejector and the PLC handshake with a heartbeat

12 modules 5h 40mView course

FreeData and analyticsBeginner

Power BI for Manufacturing: OEE and Production Dashboards

The no-code way out of the weekly Excel production report. Twelve modules take an engineer from opening Power BI Desktop for the first time to a shift-wise OEE dashboard: Power Query on downtime and production exports, a star schema a plant model can live in, the DAX behind availability, performance and quality, a downtime Pareto that ranks by lost minutes, reject rate by machine and shift, plan against actual, and the refresh, publishing and handover that keep it running after you.

Clean a downtime or production export in Power Query with steps that rerun on next month's file
Split a flat shift sheet into a star schema and set cardinality and filter direction correctly
Write production measures in DAX with SUM, DISTINCTCOUNT, DIVIDE and CALCULATE

13 modules 8h 50mView course

FreeEnergyIntermediate

Energy Management and Energy Audit with ISO 50001

Energy management and energy auditing for plants and buildings: energy units and the electricity bill, the ISO 50001 energy management system clause by clause, energy reviews, EnPIs and baselines by regression and CUSUM, metering and IPMVP measurement and verification, the audit method and instruments, then motors, pumps and fans, compressed air, chillers and lighting, boilers and steam, and project economics in cost units.

Convert electricity and fuel into GJ and toe and calculate specific energy consumption
Read an industrial electricity bill and size power factor correction in kVAr
Build an ISO 50001 energy management system from context and policy to management review

15 modules 13h 5mView course

Compare the Quality, Lean and Six Sigma courses

Course	Level	Modules	Video	Brand
Lean Manufacturing, OEE and TPM	Beginner	15	10h 45m	Vendor-neutral
Automotive Core Tools: FMEA (AIAG-VDA 1st Edition)	Intermediate	8	3h 24m	Vendor-neutral
Six Sigma Green Belt Training for Manufacturing	Intermediate	15	10h 59m	Vendor-neutral
ISO 9001:2026 Quality Management and Internal Auditing	Beginner	15	9h 12m	Vendor-neutral
Electrical and Instrumentation QA/QC Inspection	Beginner	13	7h 10m	Vendor-neutral
Welding Inspection and Mechanical QA/QC with NDT Basics	Beginner	15	7h 49m	Vendor-neutral
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt	Advanced	13	13h 46m	Vendor-neutral
SPC and MSA: Control Charts, Capability and Gauge R&R	Beginner	15	9h 18m	Vendor-neutral
IATF 16949 Automotive QMS and Internal Auditing	Beginner	13	8h 45m	Vendor-neutral
ISO 14001 Environmental Management and Internal Auditing	Beginner	15	9h 49m	Vendor-neutral
APQP, Control Plan and PPAP	Beginner	12	7h 54m	Vendor-neutral
Machine Vision and Quality Inspection	Intermediate	12	5h 40m	Vendor-neutral
Power BI for Manufacturing: OEE and Production Dashboards	Beginner	13	8h 50m	Vendor-neutral
Energy Management and Energy Audit with ISO 50001	Intermediate	15	13h 5m	Vendor-neutral

Why learn Quality, Lean and Six Sigma in India

Customers and auditors expect defect prevention, not defect sorting. Lean, Six Sigma and FMEA are the shared language of quality across automotive, electronics and process industries, and they now meet data tools such as machine vision and live OEE dashboards.

How to choose

Six Sigma Green Belt Training teaches DMAIC and the statistics behind it. Automotive FMEA follows the AIAG-VDA method suppliers are asked for. Lean Manufacturing, OEE and TPM covers the shop-floor side.

Machine Vision Quality Inspection and the Power BI OEE dashboards course add the data tools that make quality measurable in real time.

The automotive core tools are taught as a set: SPC and MSA covers control charts, capability and gauge R&R; APQP, Control Plan and PPAP covers how a new part is launched and approved; and IATF 16949 Automotive QMS and Internal Auditing shows how auditors test all of them.

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt follows Green Belt with hypothesis testing, regression and designed experiments. ISO 14001 Environmental Management covers the environmental management system and its internal audit.

Questions

Is this an official Green Belt certification?: No. It teaches the Green Belt body of knowledge; accredited belts are issued by certification bodies.
Which FMEA method is taught?: The AIAG-VDA FMEA handbook method.
Is there a free course on the automotive core tools?: Yes. SPC and MSA, APQP and PPAP, and Automotive FMEA together cover the core tools suppliers are asked for, and the IATF 16949 course shows how they are audited.
Is the Black Belt course an official certification?: No. It covers the Black Belt body of knowledge and prepares you for exams such as ASQ CSSBB; the EDWartens certificate is a certificate of completion.
Is it only for manufacturing?: The examples come from manufacturing, but the methods carry over to other sectors.
Is it free, and is there a certificate?: Every lesson, note and assessment is free. The EDWartens certificate is optional and paid, and you can finish without it.

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