Six Sigma (also written as 6-Sigma) is an approach for process and good quality management that uses a blend of various methods to help organizations improve their products and reduce their rate of error to lower costs and generate higher profits. The term Six Sigma originated in the 18th century when Bill Smith from Motorola, also known as the …
Lean Six Sigma is a process improvement methodology designed to eliminate waste and inefficiencies, thereby improving working conditions to better meet customer needs? What is Lean? What Lean does is removes the non-value adding activities from business processes thereby reducing process cycle time and improving product or service delivery times Start Your Process Improvement Training Lean …
A Six Sigma consultant is someone who is not only trained in Six Sigma but who will also impart and help the stakeholders to implement Six Sigma. The key to selecting the right consultant is to have patience. Letting the consultant do the audit, allowing them to come with their feedback could be the initial step. It is highly …
The methodology of lean six sigma is very useful at reducing the non-value added activities – the 7 Mudas out of any manufacturing process. However, this concept also finds its application across other industries as well such as healthcare, finance, IT, Sales and Marketing, defense, etc. After a firm decides to implement Lean Six Sigma in their …
A consumer goods packaging and container manufacturer wanted to increase the profitability of their operations by increasing the yield of one of their key processes by 2%. The company focussed on improving the output of its metal bending operation in which a new set of dies was cast and strict tolerances were introduced. After incurring …
The concept of Lean Six Sigma Continuous Improvement emerged in the post-war era of the late ’50s and is commonly attributed to companies such as Toyota and Motorola. They implemented it on their assembly line to reduce wastage, increase efficiency and enhance the quality of products. A similar concept of Total Quality Management was practiced in the …
Create a vision of why it’s time to start a new operational direction for the future of the business. It’s an opportunity for senior leaders to stand in front of each facility’s workforce, paint the picture of the need for change, and communicate the path intended for everyone’s involvement. You’ll want to achieve short-term gains …
Senior management will indicate where reductions will be made or provide targets to each function or business to reduce their cost base. Still, there is little consideration for the reductions’ impact on the rest of the end-to-end process. Processes will not improve because we ask them to. Lean Six Sigma is a business improvement methodology …
We all have annoying relatives who ask us about our secondary school percentage, don’t we? Ever got bothered by their, “Oh how much percentage did you score in your boards?” or “Oh you scored only 99.6%? Where did the remaining 0.4% go?” and thought, well what difference will that 0.4% make anyway? What if I …
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a structured method used to analyze “why” a problem or event has occurred. It is based on the principle that the issues can be solved by identifying and solving the root cause instead of other methods that focus on addressing or treating the symptoms. In Lean Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis is …
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