Organizations who have adopted Six Sigma have learned that if they do not design for Six Sigma, they will not achieve it. DFSS is a rigorous approach to designing products and services and their enabling processes to ensure that they meet customer expectations. As the organization evolves in Six Sigma, we will learn more about […]
Process mapping is an essential tool in helping us understand the activities and sequence of steps involved in any process. It also helps to identify areas where data collection should take place. It is commonly used at the early stages of project definition or project development to visualize the activities involved in a process. By […]
The role of Six Sigma Green Belts is to support Black Belts in the completion of projects. This might involve helping the Black Belt to collect and analyze data or to help in the running of designed experiments. Reaching Six Sigma performance requires the completion of many projects. Green Belts help to leverage Black Belts […]
Defect Opportunities can exist at any level of a hierarchy (complex, system, subsystem, component, and element levels). The hierarchy level concept can be applied to every business situation. For example, there are many levels to a policy, service, project, assembly, design, etc. For each of these levels, we count the number of opportunities and defects […]
Design for Six Sigma employs a set of tools and methodologies in the design of new products or services and their supporting processes. This is to ensure that the outcome remains as simple and cost effective as possible while serving the needs of the customer.
Products and services are defined such that they can be produced […]
Most of the tools and concepts of sixsigma have existed for years. Then why have so few organizations achieved quality levels above 4 sigma? One reason is that the quality improvement efforts of many companies have not been linked to senior management. Unless the senior management of an organization really views quality and customer satisfaction […]