By admin on February 16, 2011
Simplistically speaking, randomization in Six Sigma and any experimentation can be likened to surprise visits which help expose undetected lurking flaws in any place you may want to think of. Sometimes it pays to run random checks, even on highly standardized procedures, which eventually detect factors running over the length of the experiment in an [...]
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By admin on November 8, 2010
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 [...]
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By admin on November 8, 2010
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 [...]
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By admin on November 3, 2010
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 [...]
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By admin on October 7, 2010
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 [...]
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