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Six Sigma Project Selection
Selecting the project becomes the necessary step after identifying the need for process improvement in your business or, for that matter, your department. But selecting a project is a series of complex decision-making processes aided by a variety of tools. A wrong project selection for Six Sigma implementation means the project is not in line [...]
Cost Of Poor Quality And Six Sigma
If the cost of quality is high, looking through the Six Sigma glass the cost of poor quality is still higher. Companies bear a huge cost of about 9-16 percent of their revenues on problem solving. This is the cost of poor quality, or COPQ, as it is known. Motorola discovered this in the late [...]
Six Sigma Environment
It is not easy to implant the concept of Six Sigma into the culture of a company. This is because Six Sigma hardly bears any comparison with other quality management tools, barring a few similarities with Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. But unlike the Baldridge Award, Six Sigma gets to the core of the business [...]
Should Six Sigma Metrics Be Different From Other Industry Metrics?
The above question ‘should six sigma metrics be different from other industry metrics’ arises from surprising sources. If you look at any quality management tool, be it ISO, Lean Management Techniques or even cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice, the industry standard for pharmaceutical and healthcare product manufacturers), what meets the eye is the parity of [...]
Six Sigma Metrics And How to Devise Them
Six Sigma is a powerful mathematical and statistical tool that has its roots deep into the customer-centric approach. The objective is to reduce the output variation and thereby to meet customer specifications by application of the methodology at the process stage ensures the meeting of its target result of 3.4 defects per million parts. The [...]
Six Sigma In The Software Industry
Six Sigma in the software industry must have caused a few eyelids to bat in its early days. Six Sigma in manufacturing is completely understandable. For the same logic to apply to software products, it still has a long way to go to establish itself. However, for the moment it is safe to assume that [...]
Six Sigma – The Historical Perspective
The quest for perfection is second only to human survival instincts. These are the two reasons that were solely responsible for civilizations to flourish. That we are wearing clothes today as a symbol of the quest for perfection and innovation should reinforce this statement. Was There A Conscious Effort To Develop Six Sigma Into A [...]