Training Programs
In an effort to provide you with the ideal training for your team, we offer two types of classes—customer-hosted and Shainin-hosted. While customer-hosted classes provide the opportunity to speak freely and in-depth about potential solutions to specific problems your organization is facing with a group from only your company, Shainin-hosted classes offer a chance for a smaller group of individuals from your company to network and collaborate with peers across and outside your industry for a broad scope of technique application.
- If you believe your team’s needs will best be met by a customer-hosted class, please contact us, and we can discuss what arrangement will best suit your company.
- If your team would benefit more from a Shainin-hosted class and you have already signed an agreement with Shainin, please use the course schedule below to register for a class. If your company hasn’t completed an agreement with Shainin, please contact us, and we can get started on the paperwork right away.
If you have any questions about pricing, legal agreements, or other logistics, please contact us for more information and we’ll be happy to help.
Red X – Technical Classes
Quality & Manufacturing Engineering Path
RED X® APPRENTICE – MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE
Participants learn strategies and techniques for finding the hidden causes that are keeping their systems from performing properly. The class also explores function models, understanding and ranking failures, and learning to leverage the profound knowledge gained by revealing unknown failures in complex business processes. Using company projects, students implement their newly gained knowledge to solve real problems. Ideal projects for this level include end of line test fails, scrap, re-work, yield and first-time throughput.
To register for a class, view our available classes and locations below. The link to register is on the correlated tab.
RED X® JOURNEYMAN
The Journeyman class takes the basics learned in the Apprentice Manufacturing Performance class to the next level. By covering advanced problem-solving tools and strategies in the Approach and Converge phases of FACTUAL™ as well as advanced confirmation testing and tolerance establishment in the Test, Understand, and Apply phases, participants will leave this class with a deep understanding of the FACTUAL™ process. The final phase of the program is completing company projects to solidify their learning.
To register for a class, view our available classes and locations below. The link to register is on the correlated tab.
Dates: 25 Apr 2023 – 28 Apr 2023
Time: 8:30 AM Central European Summer Time
Format: Virtual
Location: Virtuelles Training via Zoom, 25. – 28 April 2023, 8:30 Uhr – 15:30 Uhr CEST
Instructor: Patrick Goden-Leydecker, Daniel Herold
Prerequisites: Attend the Red X® Apprentice – Manufacturing Performance class
Dates: 25 Apr 2023 – 28 Apr 2023
Time: 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (North America)
Format: Virtual
Location: USA; Red X Journeyman training; April 25-28, 2023; 9:00 am – 3:00 pm EST; Virtual with Instructor Brad Ellis
Instructor: Bradley Ellis
Prerequisites: Attend the Red X® Apprentice – Manufacturing Performance class
RED X® MASTER
Coaching requires skills beyond problem solving. Specifically, a coach must become reflectively competent. During this course, participants develop a deeper understanding of both the application of advanced problem-solving tools and strategies as well as the skills needed to coach and develop other problem solvers. This is the final course in the certification pathway.
To register for a class, view our available classes and locations below. The link to register is on the correlated tab.
Dates: 09 May 2023 – 12 May 2023
Time: 8:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (North America)
Format: Virtual
Location: USA; Red X Master Training; May 9-12, 2023; Virtual with Instructor Dick Shainin
Instructor: Richard Shainin
Prerequisites: Certification as a Red X Journeyman or Red X Reliability Engineer, three Master candidate projects completed, and the Master Toolbox completed
Product & Reliability Path
RED X® APPRENTICE – PRODUCT PERFORMANCE
Participants learn the steps in the Shainin FACTUAL™ process and how to apply it to engineering problems that surface during development, production trials, and initial launch where smaller sample sizes are typical. The class also explores measurement system effectiveness and Red X® confirmation as well as the establishment of tolerances that ensure customer needs are met. A special emphasis is placed on strategies to deal with difficult malfunction failures as well as destructive event failures. Ideal projects involve product performance, durability and reliability and conforming to regulatory requirements.
To register for a class, view our available classes and locations below. The link to register is on the correlated tab.
RED X® RELIABILITY
Participants learn advanced strategies and tools for solving reliability problems that occur during customer usage. The course picks up where the Product Performance Class left off, starting with an understanding of the different patterns of failure. A key theme of the class is being able to establish a problem-solving strategy for when the problem lives in variation in the product’s resistance to a particular failure mode (strength), a spike in application energy, or environmental decay weakening the strength over time.
To register for a class, view our available classes and locations below. The link to register is on the correlated tab.
Dates: 16 May 2023 – 18 May 2023
Time: 8:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (North America)
Format: Virtual
Location: USA; Red X Problem Solving- Reliability; May 16-18, 2023; 8:00 am – 2:00 pm; Virtual with Instructor John Abrahamian
Instructor: John Abrahamian
Prerequisites: Attendance of Red X® Apprentice – Product Performance Class, or the Red X® Apprentice – Manufacturing Performance class
RED X® MASTER
Coaching requires skills beyond problem solving. Specifically, a coach must become reflectively competent. During this course, participants develop a deeper understanding of both the application of advanced problem-solving tools and strategies as well as the skills needed to coach and develop other problem solvers. This is the final course in the certification pathway.
To register for a class, view our available classes and locations below. The link to register is on the correlated tab.
Dates: 09 May 2023 – 12 May 2023
Time: 8:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (North America)
Format: Virtual
Location: USA; Red X Master Training; May 9-12, 2023; Virtual with Instructor Dick Shainin
Instructor: Richard Shainin
Prerequisites: Certification as a Red X® Journeyman or Red X® Reliability Engineer, three Master candidate projects completed, and the Master Toolbox completed
RED X® BASIX™
The one-day Red X® BasiX class is specifically designed to provide an introduction to Shainin methodologies. This course provides participants with the chance to learn the basic Red X® approach and tools.
To register for a class, view our available classes and locations below. The link to register is on the correlated tab.
RED X® TECHNICIAN
The 2-day Red X® Technician class provides an introduction to the Red X® tools and strategies necessary to effectively support the engineering team in solving complex problems. In short, the training ensures everyone on the team speaks the same problem-solving language in their pursuit of hidden causes. Participants learn to create and draw conclusions from an isoplot, multivari, or concentration diagram, as well as to execute quick tests to confirm a root cause.
To register for a class, view our available classes and locations below. The link to register is on the correlated tab.
RED X® PROBLEM SOLVING FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Participants learn strategies and techniques for finding the hidden causes keeping their IT systems from performing properly. Participants will learn to identify contrasts to enable fast and efficient problem solving as well as to confirm the Red X® with statistical confidence before implementing corrective actions. Finally, the course outlines how to apply solutions, document savings, and leverage the profound knowledge gained by revealing unknown relationships.
To register for a class, view our available classes and locations below. The link to register is on the correlated tab.
TransaXional – Business Process Classes
TRANSAXIONAL™ APPRENTICE
In this class, participants learn strategies and techniques for finding the hidden causes that are keeping their business processes from performing properly. Ideal projects for this level are processes involving a: logistics, material control, accounting, purchasing, manufacturing operations, and human resources.
To register for a class, view our available classes and locations below. The link to register is on the correlated tab.
TRANSAXIONAL™ JOURNEYMAN
In this class, participants review problem definition trees, RPN pareto, functional models, analysis cycles, and responsibility matrices to ensure their understanding and efficient utilization of the DETAIL framework. With this baseline solidified, the participants will then learn to use redundancy detection to analyze and optimize function models, use functional synthesis to find missing functions, create new processes, identify high-risk functions, and master the interaction between TransaXional and Lean tools to provide superior optimization.
To register for a class, view our available classes and locations below. The link to register is on the correlated tab.
For more information on the Red X class pathway, please refer to the map below.
