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- Six Sigma: It's Not Just for Manufacturing
- Six Sigma programs have traditionally been prescriptions for quality improvement in manufacturing industries. Their concerns have some merit. Six Sigma won't work for every service process, and adjustments may be required for it to suit even those processes for which it does apply. Nevertheless, many of the lessons learned from...
- White papers 2003-01-27
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- Xerox picks Instantis package for Six Sigma efforts.
- Xerox Corp. has selected the Six Sigma Project Lifecycle Management SSPLM solution from Instantis to manage its Lean Six Sigma effort. Xerox has seen growth in the number of Six Sigma projects and practitioners within the company, ... Xerox...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Six Sigma Is A Way Of Life
- Six Sigma has been observed as a fundamental change in the way one does business. It is not an additional step or certification system. Six Sigma training is also instrumental in the success of the organization. It does not end with black belts. In most divisions of the company, it...
- Case studies 2003-05-01
- GE Takes Six Sigma Beyond the Bottom Line
- Now that its own Six Sigma effort is so successful, GE Medical Systems is taking it to customers to help them improve their operations. The mentoring structure behind Six Sigma training and the dedication of the Black Belts have provided the momentum necessary to complete thousands of projects at GE....
- Case studies 2001-05-01
- ER Six Sigma Effort Results in 50% Satisfaction Improvement and $4 Million Cost Recovery, Part II
- The story of the Morton Plant ER's story illustrates a multi-year strategic use of Six Sigma compared to the more common "one project at a time" approach. While Six Sigma can certainly affect quality and recover costs of quality through a short-term, on a project basis, its power was magnified...
- Case studies 2003-01-31
- MINITAB: the standard for Six Sigma success.(Advertisement)
- One of the key requirements for a successful Six Sigma effort is statistical problem solving. The leading Six Sigma consulting groups use and recommend MINITAB, reinforcing its position as the premier general-purpose statistics package for statistical quality improvement worldwide. Companies such as Honeywell International, General Electric,...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- MINITAB: the standard for six sigma success. (Supplier Showcase).
- One of the key requirements for a successful Six Sigma effort is statistical problem solving. The leading Six Sigma consulting groups use and recommend MINITAB, reinforcing its position as the premier general-purpose statistics package for statistical quality improvement worldwide. Companies such as Honeywell International, General Electric,...
- Research articles 2002-12-01
- ER Six Sigma Effort Results in 50% Satisfaction Improvement and $4 Million Cost Recovery, Part I
- Six Sigma is often portrayed as a one project-at-a-time type of approach, yet its real power is in a long-term strategic application. This case illustrates how one ER established a three-year goal to become world-class and organized Six Sigma 100-Day Plan teams to achieve that goal. The ER's goal was...
- Case studies 2003-01-17
- A Deming Moment And Its Relevance To Six Sigma
- The article reveals that Dr. Deming's point was that the importance should be to change the systems that create the original inefficient and ineffective documentation system and other systems that serve to prevent employees from best serving the customers and other. The systems, forms, and practices that generally get in...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Performance Evaluations May Doom Six Sigma Efforts?
- The article zooms in on the fact that assumes a system that encourages excellent performance on the part of everyone, not one that encourages people to avoid being identified as poor performers. The best way to do that is to involve everyone in the design of the system. The numbers...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma and the Evolution of Quality in Product Development
- All models are wrong but some are useful. Quality in product development began with attempts to inspect quality into products or services either in the process domain scrap and rework, the design domain verification tests and durability failures or the customer domain warranty costs and complaints. Six-sigma encompasses almost all...
- White papers 2001-11-01
- Six Sigma Basics-Process Improvement,Goals and Measurements
- The article highlights how six sigma can be helpful in process improvement. Six Sigma is about process improvement with emphasis on the general goal of achieving six-sigma process performance and the use of quantitative techniques to measure the actual performance of a process. Six Sigma provides a new...
- White papers
- Seeking Six Sigma Standardization
- This article helps in determining the standardization for six sigma, with the help of a case of Iomega. Iomega strives to universalize the system behind its success. In the computer hardware market, much like in quality management, the name of the game is standardization. When Iomega's zip product line gained...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Building Frameworks for Six Sigma Success
- Article talks about the observation that Six Sigma has become an instrumental tool in the success of an organization. An effort has been made to improve its framework. Six Sigma projects identify a repetitive process that can be improved upon and then establish metrics against which change can be measured....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma Strategies Equate to New Roles
- A company's quality mission of Six Sigma can be a noble pursuit of process perfection -- an achievement that can entail significant cost and performance benefits. But, in the Six Sigma world, there are levels of perfection. Belden Electronics, a unit of Belden Inc. (Richmond, IN), a manufacturer of specialty...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Micrografx and Minitab to create integrated Six Sigma solutions; Joint effort will establish best-in-class process management, statistical components.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-11 May 2000-MICROGRAFX: Micrografx and Minitab to create integrated Six Sigma solutions; Joint effort will establish best-in-class process management, statistical components C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09052000 Micrografx Inc., a global leader in enterprise process management, Minitab Inc.,...
- Research articles 2000-05-11
- Six Sigma Enigma - Taking the Mystery out of the Methodology
- Six Sigma is an information-driven methodology for reducing waste, increasing customer satisfaction, and improving processes, with a focus on financially measurable results. In statistics, "sigma" refers to variation. Six Sigma methodology focuses on reducing variation as a way to improve processes. In particular, it uses sigma to measure the performance...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Steering Six Sigma… Partners in Quality
- "The idea of Six Sigma is not new.According to a recently published article.Six Sigma was born anywhere from 10 to 20 years ago incorporate engineering communities, which makes as its habit reducing processes to statistically measurable phenomena. GE defines five steps as key components of the Six...
- White papers
- Six Sigma Trends: Upgrade for Supply Chains and Solution Providers
- This article discusses the trends and new results) in Six Sigma methodology evolution. In the initial part, it gives a brief explanation of the applicability of the Six Sigma Concept in small businesses. It focuses that customers are going to require greater supply-chain integration in the future. This trend must...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Mapping Six Sigma Deployment To The CQM System Of Tools
- This article takes a brief look at some Six Sigma fundamentals in an effort to find connections and distinctions related to the CQM tools and system. The Center for Quality of Management has long recognized Six Sigma as a deployment approach that could be useful in connection with their broader...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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