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- Six Sigma Basics: Outcome Measurement of Process Performance
- Six Sigma Quality Management provides a general goal for process performance -six sigmas of process variation should fit within the tolerance limits or quality requirement for the product. Given this goal, it is important to measure process performance to determine whether improvement is needed. There are two different methodologies -...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Six Sigma: Quality Design and Control Processes
- Basic principle of Six Sigma Quality Management is that, well-designed processes are critical to achieving quality. It also follows that there must be a design process that has been carefully structured to plan the quality of new products or services. One well-established approach to process and product design is called...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma Staffing Strategies
- "The article is about the six sigma staffing strategies for healthcare laboratories and defines different metrics with graphs that help to understand. One interesting application of Six Sigma Quality Management is to use the Sigma metrics calculated for testing processes to guide the deployment of laboratory personnel. High sigma values...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma Beyond Manufacturing–A Concept for Robust Management
- Six-sigma quality describes a production process of highly robust quality; one that has very low variability compared with the tolerance limits specified for the product being made. Achieving six-sigma quality ensures both dependable quality and production efficiency. It is applicable not only to the production of goods and services, but...
- White papers 2000-07-01
- Six Sigma- Performance Improvement
- "Six Sigma" is a term coined by Motorola in the late 1980's to represents a stretch goal for process quality. Sigma is the Greek symbol used by statisticians to denote the standard deviation- a statistical measure of variability. When a process reaches "six sigma" quality, the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Integrating Lean And Six Sigma For Breakthrough Process Improvement
- ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/TS 16949 differ from previous quality system standards in their strong emphasis on documentation and continual improvement. This is affected in an organization's business processes--product realization, management, and supporting processes. ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/TS 16949 require organizations to define and document their business processes and to adopt...
- White papers 2003-11-18
- Six Sigma Trends: Management Of Six Sigma Deployments
- Six Sigma is often deployed as a quality initiative, where one manager is typically selected as a Six Sigma Leader and a few candidates are sent overseas to learn "new quality methods" and secure billions of dollars in savings "as Motorola and GE do". All Six Sigma projects are process...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Integrating Lean And Six Sigma For Breakthrough Process Improvement
- ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/TS 16949 differ from previous quality system standards in their strong emphasis on documenting and continually improving the organization's product realization, management and supporting processes, which together make-up all of a company's business processes. This paper promote the idea that organizations should adopt an integrated approach that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma Beyond Manufacturing– A Concept for Robust Management
- The article says about Six-sigma quality that describes a production process of highly robust quality; one that has very low variability compared with the tolerance limits specified for the product being made. Achieving six-sigma quality ensures both dependable quality and production efficiency. It is applicable not only to the production...
- White papers 2000-07-01
- SIX SIGMA BESTSELLERS*
- 1. What Is Six Sigma? Peter S. Pande and Lawrence Holpp, McGraw-Hill, 2001.2. Six Sigma for Managers, Greg Brue and Roger A. Formisano, McGraw-Hill, 2002.3. Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Pocket Guide, Rath & Strong, 2000.4. Six Sigma Fundamentals: A Complete Guide to the System, Methods and Tools, Dean H....
- Research articles 2004-05-01
- Back To Basics; Six Sigma Could Provide A Cure For The Corporate Hangover
- Its time when corporate America is bracing for an economic slowdown, many companies are getting back to blocking and tackling. They are focusing on the basics, like quality control, customer service, and good old- fashioned cost cutting. Six Sigma, a management principle that helps companies perfect these processes, could also...
- White papers 2003-01-03
- Crunching Data: The Key to Six Sigma Success
- Quality improvement programs come and go in health care and other industries. Many CIOs remember the days when Total Quality Management and Continuous Quality Improvement were the de rigueur programs that promised to squeeze the inefficiencies out of the care delivery process. This article reports that six-sigma quality programs work,...
- White papers 2004-04-13
- Micrografx and Minitab to Create Integrated Six Sigma Solutions; Joint Effort Will Establish Best-in-Class Process Management, Statistical Components
- Business Editors & Technology Writers ALLEN, Texas--BUSINESS WIRE--May 2, 2000 Micrografx Inc. (Nasdaq:MGXI), and Minitab Inc., are working together to create best-in-class, integrated solutions for Six Sigma process management and statistical analysis. Through this collaborative effort, Micrografx and Minitab will assist organizations undergoing Six Sigma initiatives to...
- Research articles 2000-05-02
- Saving The Costs Of Poor Quality
- Business and industry have demonstrated significant cost savings as a result of implementing Six Sigma Quality Management. Can you expect similar savings in healthcare applications? We think so and here's why.The implementation of Six Sigma will actually save you money that is already being spent due to poor quality. This...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Juggling quality & compliance: packagers' quality improvements hinge on supplier relationships and shrewd use of software
- Food and pharmaceutical packagers continue to emphasize quality--in all aspects of their operations--to protect their brands and improve their position in the marketplace. For many, that includes adoption of continuous improvement methods such as Six Sigma; quality management standards such as ISO 9001; and, for food processors, Hazard Analysis...
- Research articles 2004-05-01
- Six Sigma Quality Management and Desirable Laboratory Precision
- There is a key issue relative to managing inventories at companies with multiple warehouses or stocking branches. The key advantage to having inventory decisions take place locally is that personnel are aware of local factors and upcoming events. They are in a position to anticipate special promotions that may be...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Cult of Six Sigma |BTalk Australia
- (24min 37) Six Sigma is a business improvement pioneered by Motorola, embraced by General Electric and now used by many large corporations throughout the world. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Alan Skinner, a six sigma "black belt" from the Faculty of Business at the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Executive Summary: Deploying Six Sigma to Bolster Business Processes and the Bottom Line
- Six Sigma is the fastest growing business management system, credited with saving billions of dollars for companies during the past 10 years. Developed by Motorola in the mid-1980s, Six Sigma became well known after General Electric's Jack Welch made it a central focus of GE's business strategy in 1995. The...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma at Ford Revisited
- When Quality Digest spoke to Ford Motor Co. in 2001, the company's Six Sigma initiative was just getting underway, and Ford was in the process of working out all the kinks that come along with implementing a new quality improvement program. Six Sigma at Ford has been in the works...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma And Total Information Quality Management
- From the executive summary: ‘Six Sigma has gained popularity recently as it has achieved dramatic benefits in organizations that have understood and implemented its rigorous processes. As a measure of quality, Six Sigma refers to six standard deviations and means a process performance of no more than defects per million...
- White papers 2004-10-01
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