Lean Six Sigma For Dummies
Lean Six Sigma For Dummies

Author: John Morgan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-11-18

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1119992265

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With the growing business industry there is a large demand for greater speed and quality, for projects of all natures in both small and large businesses. Lean Six Sigma is the result of the combination of the two best-known improvement methods: Six Sigma (making work better, of higher quality) and Lean (making work faster, more efficient). Lean Six Sigma For Dummies outlines they key concepts in plain English, and shows you how to use the right tools, in the right place, and in the right way, not just in improvement and design projects, but also in your day-to-day activities. It shows you how to ensure the key principles and concepts of Lean Six Sigma become a natural part of how you do things so you can get the best out of your business and accomplish your goals better, faster and cheaper. About the author John Morgan has been a Director of Catalyst Consulting, Europe's leading provider of lean Six Sigma solutions for 10 years. Martin Brenig-Jones is also a Director at Catalyst Consulting. He is an expert in Quality and Change Management and has worked in the field for 16 years.

Lean Six Sigma Logistics
Lean Six Sigma Logistics

Author: Thomas J. Goldsby

Publisher: J. Ross Publishing

Published: 2005-08-15

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781932159363

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Speed to market, reducing costs, and accelerating leadtimes are vital for survival in today's competitiveenvironment. Inventory is no longer considered an asset,and strategies are needed to operate with minimalinventories. Lean Six Sigma Logistics provides thevehicle to solidify strategic position, win overcustomers, and achieve ......

Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare
Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare

Author: Chip Caldwell

Publisher: Quality Press

Published: 2008-12-05

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0873894022

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This book’s unique focus on the role of healthcare leaders and the lessons learned were uncovered during the authors’ research of over 200 U.S. hospitals’ performance. It was written specifically for CEOs, the “C-Suite,” and senior leaders who desire to harness the power of Lean-Six Sigma as their major strategic weapon for progress, as well as those charged to coach them. It is intended for those organizations that operate active Lean-Six Sigma initiatives, but have yet to successfully attack high leverage processes like “In Quality Staffing” and recovering significant Cost of Quality from throughput improvements. It is also intended for senior leaders who have yet to tackle Lean-Six Sigma as their major organization-wide strategic weapon. However, it is also a must-read for managers at all levels, quality professionals, and Lean-Six Sigma Black Belts who desire to aid in assuring that their organizations’ improvement efforts attack strategically versus the all-to-common tactical, project-by-project approach that suboptimizes the power of Lean-Six Sigma. Further, the book and supporting website is full of electronic checklists, tools, templates, suggestions for additional reading, and many recommended 1-hour and 2-hour learning sessions for senior leaders and managers. The changes in this second edition include the following: Many more examples of “In Quality Staffing”, a healthcare translation of one of the seven categories of Lean waste found in the Toyota Production System and one of the most powerful concepts applicable to healthcare. This concept has been described as “the language of nursing” versus a more manufacturing-speak described in other leading Lean-Six Sigma books. Expanded dialogue of the role of Lean in healthcare. Additional embedded case examples.

Essentials of Lean Six Sigma
Essentials of Lean Six Sigma

Author: Salman Taghizadegan

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2010-07-26

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0080462324

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Six Sigma is a management program that provides tools that help manufacturers obtain efficient, stream-lined production to coincide with ultimate high quality products. Essentials of Lean Six Sigma will show how the well-regarded analytical tools of Six Sigma quality control can be successfully brought into the well-established models of “lean manufacturing, bringing efficient, stream-lined production and high quality product readily together. This book offers a thorough, yet concise introduction to the essential mathematics of Six Sigma, with solid case examples from a variety of industrial settings, culminating in an extended case study. Various professionals will find this book immensely useful, whether it be the industrial engineer, the industrial manager, or anyone associated with engineering in a technical or managing role. It will bring about a clear understanding of not only how to implement Six Sigma statistical tools, but also how to do so within the bounds of Lean manufacturing scheme. It will show how Lean Six Sigma can help reinforce the notion of “less is more, while at the same time preserving minimal error rates in final manufactured products. Reviews the essential statistical tools upon which Six Sigma rests, including normal distribution and mean deviation and the derivation of 1 sigma through six sigma Explains essential lean tools like Value-Stream Mapping and quality improvement tools like Kaizen techniques within the context of Lean Six Sigma practice Extended case study to clearly demonstrate how Six Sigma and Lean principles have been actually implemented, reducing production times and costs and creating improved product quality

The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook
The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook

Author: Frank Voehl

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2013-07-09

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 1466554681

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Although Lean and Six Sigma appear to be quite different, when used together they have shown to deliver unprecedented improvements to quality and profitability. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration explains how to integrate these seemingly dissimilar approaches to increase production speed while decreasing variations and costs in your organization. Presenting problem-solving tools you can use to immediately determine the sources of the problems in your organization, the book is based on a recent survey that analyzed Six Sigma tools to determine which are the most beneficial. Although it focuses on the most commonly used tools, it also includes coverage of those used a minimum of two times on every five Six Sigma projects. Filled with diagrams of the tools you’ll need, the book supplies a comprehensive framework to help you for organize and process the vast amount of information currently available about Lean, quality management, and continuous improvement process applications. It begins with an overview of Six Sigma, followed by little-known tips for using Lean Six Sigma (LSS) effectively. It examines the LSS quality system, its supporting organization, and the different roles involved. Identifying the theories required to support a contemporary Lean system, the book describes the new skills and technologies that you need to master to be certified at the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB) level. It also covers the advanced non-statistical and statistical tools that are new to the LSSBB body of knowledge. Presenting time-tested insights of a distinguished group of authors, the book provides the understanding required to select the solutions that best fit your organization's aim and culture. It also includes exercises, worksheets, and templates you can easily customize to create your own handbook for continuous process improvement. Designed to make the methodologies you choose easy to follow, the book will help Black Belts and Senseis better engage their employees, as well as provide an integrated and visual process management structure for reporting and sustaining continuous improvement breakthroughs and initiatives.

Lean Six Sigma for Service
Lean Six Sigma for Service

Author: Michael L. George

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2003-07-15

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0071436359

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Bring the miracle of Lean Six Sigma improvement out of manufacturing and into services Much of the U.S. economy is now based on services rather than manufacturing. Yet the majority of books on Six Sigma and Lean--today's major quality improvement initiatives--explain only how to implement these techniques in a manufacturing environment. Lean Six Sigma for Services fills the need for a service-based approach, explaining how companies of all types can cost-effectively translate manufacturing-oriented Lean Six Sigma tools into the service delivery process. Filled with case studies detailing dramatic service improvements in organizations from Lockheed Martin to Stanford University Hospital, this bottom-line book provides executives and managers with the knowledge they need to: Reduce service costs by 30 to 60 percent Improve service delivery time by 50 percent Expand capacity by 20 percent without adding staff

Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma
Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma

Author: David Shaked

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2013-11-03

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 074946951X

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Strength-based Lean Six Sigma is a new way of approaching process improvement that combines the best practices of two established methodologies to generate a new approach in order to help you develop and deliver increased high performance in any organization. It is the first book to use approaches in business improvement as well as organizational change for optimum organizational performance and improved agility. Combining the energy and motivation released through a strengths-based approach with the focus on quality and efficiency generated by lean six sigma, it offers practitioners from all disciplines the opportunity to understand each other and work successfully together to drive effective and powerful change programmes.

Lean Sigma
Lean Sigma

Author: Ian Wedgwood PhD

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2006-10-10

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 0132712830

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The Practical, Easy-to-Use Guide to Lean Sigma Problem-Solving Lean Sigma delivers results–if you use the right tools and techniques. In Lean Sigma: A Practitioner’s Guide, Dr. Ian Wedgwood captures best-practice Lean Sigma experience from multiple projects and industries, helping any professional identify the solution that will work best–and implement it. Wedgwood’s exclusive "project roadmaps" present the fastest, most effective route to solving a wide range of problems–and explain why those solutions make sense. His "discovery roadmaps" help you identify potential Lean Sigma projects, even in processes where there are no obvious targets. Whether you’re a Green Belt, Black Belt, Master, Project Champion, Sponsor, Deployment Leader, or consultant, this book will help you use Lean Sigma to solve far more problems, far more rapidly, and far more effectively.

Lean Sigma
Lean Sigma

Author: Ian Wedgwood

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780133991031

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The Practical Guide to Lean Sigma Problem-Solving-- Expanded & Updated! Lean Sigma delivers results--if you use the right tools and techniques. In this thoroughly updated edition, Ian Wedgwood details his proven best-practices from more than sixty successful Six Sigma and Lean deployments in multiple industries, helping you identify and apply the solutions that will work best in your projects. This expanded edition of Lean Sigma: A Practitioner''s Guide offers detailed guidance on process improvement, standardization, accelerated improvement, and more. Wedgwood helps you identify potential Lean Sigma projects, even in processes without obvious targets. He illuminates fast, effective routes to solving specific business problems, and explains why these solutions work. Next, he presents detailed "tools roadmaps": step-by-step instructions showing exactly how and when to use each of these tools: * 5 Whys * 5S * Affinity * ANOVA * Box plot * Capability * C&E matrix * Chi-Square * Concept ideation, design, selection * Control charts * Control plan summary * Core process map * Critical path analysis * Customer interviewing * Customer requirements tree * Customer surveys * D-Study * Demand profiling * Demand segmentation * DOE * Fishbone diagram * Handoff map * KPOVs & data * Load chart * MSAs * Multi-Cycle analysis * Multi-Vari studies * Murphy''s analysis * Normality test * OEE * Pareto chart * Process performance mgmt. * Poka Yoke * Process board * Process FMEA * Process scorecard /dashboard * Process variables (I/O) map * Project charter * Pull systems & Kanban * Rapid changeover (SMED) * Regression * SIPOC * Spaghetti map * Standard work instructions * SPC * Swimlane map * Test of equal variance * Time * Total productive maintenance * T-tests * Value stream map With this guide, all Green, Black, or Master Black Belts will benefit from decades of Six Sigma and Lean consulting experience. Register your product at informit.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available

What is Lean Six Sigma
What is Lean Six Sigma

Author: Michael L. George

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2005-06-05

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0071490353

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A quick introduction on how to use Lean Six Sigma toimprove your workplace, meet your goals, andbetter serve your customers. Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better (using Six Sigma) and making work faster (using Lean principles). In this plain-English guide, you’ll discover how this remarkable quality improvement method can give you the tools to identify and eliminate waste and quality problems in your own work area. Packed with diagrams, cartoons, and real-life examples, What is Lean Six Sigma? reveals the “four keys” of Lean Six Sigma and how they apply to your own job: Delight your customers with speed and quality Improve your processes Work together for maximum gain Base decisions on data and facts You’ll see the big picture of what your company hopes to gain with Lean Six Sigma, how it may affect your work area, and what it can mean to you personally.