The following is a chapter from Praveen Gupta's The Six Sigma Performance Handbook, which gives results-oriented help with Six Sigma initiatives. With this handbook, you will learn how to optimize performance and sustain breakthrough results. This book also gives a quick, straight forward tutorial on the use of the statistical tools which form the bases for Six Sigma project success. The handbook shows you how to simplify Six Sigma methods for cost-effective implementations that work best in your organization.
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Written with managers, not statisticians in mind, this reference shows readers how to statistically evaluate a Six Sigma program, identify problems, and make tailor-made adjustments to get the desired results and revitalize a program Profits in tough times require prioritization and focus. If properly managed, Six Sigma methods can deliver dramatic improvement by increasing manufacturing and process efficiencies. But nearly 60% of all corporate Six Sigma initiatives fail to yield the desired results -- often companies take the "fighting fires" approach to business and do not take time to understand what the data in telling them, which is why many Six Sigma projects fail. The high-visibility of the Six Sigma Initiative has corporate executives committing to significant investment in resources often without any tangible improvement in profitability -- a fact neglected by most Six Sigma books. Written with Green belts, and managers in mind, this reference shows readers how to statistically evaluate a Six Sigma program, identify problems, and make tailor-made adjustments to get the desired results and revitalize a program.
Here is a sample chapter from Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook, which offers the best and the latest information to assist you in solving some of the most complex problems imaginable. In this book written by the instructors of the world renowned Motorola University, you'll find valuable advice on how to integrate research and development, manufacturing, human resources, finance, marketing, quality, and customer service goals with their corporate vision, mission and key strategies.
The following is a chapter from the fully updated and revised The Six Sigma Handbook, Third Edition. It covers the management systems and statistical tools that are the foundation of Six Sigma. The book's presentation is based on the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) implementation strategy for Six Sigma, with focus on the management responsibilities and problem-solving methodologies.
The following is a chapter from Praveen Gupta's The Six Sigma Performance Handbook, which gives results-oriented help with Six Sigma initiatives. With this handbook, you will learn how to optimize performance and sustain breakthrough results. This book also gives a quick, straight forward tutorial on the use of the statistical tools which form the bases for Six Sigma project success. The handbook shows you how to simplify Six Sigma methods for cost-effective implementations that work best in your organization.
The definitive quality management compendium--revised for the first time in a decade For more than 50 years, Juran's Quality Handbook has been the singular essential reference to quality management and engineering. The Sixth Edition--the first revision of the Handbook in 10 years--forges a new standard in tools for quality. Bringing leaders, managers, master and black belts, and engineers the most up-to-date methods, research, and tools, under the guidance of a team of the world's top experts, this authoritative resource shows how to apply universal methods for delivering superior results and organizational excellence in any organization, industry, country, or process. Juran's Quality Handbook, sixth edition covers: Leadership--what everyone needs to know about managing for superior quality and results Methods--the most effective methods and tools for attaining superior results, such as Lean, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, Continuous Innovation, and more Industry applications--effectively applying quality management The roles of key functions--such as quality professionals, research and development, supply chain, and governance--and what they must carry out to attain superior results in an organization Performance excellence--pragmatic roadmaps, templates, and tools to aid in developing an effective and sustainable performance excellence system
The following is a chapter from Praveen Gupta's The Six Sigma Performance Handbook, which gives results-oriented help with Six Sigma initiatives. With this handbook, you will learn how to optimize performance and sustain breakthrough results. This book also gives a quick, straight forward tutorial on the use of the statistical tools which form the bases for Six Sigma project success. The handbook shows you how to simplify Six Sigma methods for cost-effective implementations that work best in your organization.
The following is a sample chapter from Lean Six Sigma, which explains how to impact your company's performance in each, by combining the strength of today's two most important initiatives--Lean Production and Six Sigma--into one integrated program. The first book to provide a step-by-step roadmap for profiting from the best elements of Lean and Six Sigma, this breakthrough volume will show you how to achieve major cost and lead time reductions this year; compress order-to-delivery cycle times; and battle process variation and waste throughout your organization.
Lean Six Sigma is the global standard for organizing the design, data-based improvement and control of business processes. Well-designed and controlled processes are key in achieving and sustaining operational excellence. They ensure the quality of service and care, the reliability and safety of work that is done, and a timely processing with short waiting times. High quality processes will at the same time improve the operation’s flexibility. Thereby allowing one to adjust to changes in demand and other circumstances. An organizational capability to harness data-based process improvement, finally, facilitates organizational learning and is foundational for the fruitful implementation of ever increasing digitization and automation opportunities. Lean Six Sigma offers a complete model for shaping modern continuous improvement programs in organizations. The methodology is built on principles and methods for fact-based process improvement that have proven themselves over the last decades, and will continue to do so in the decades to come. Having emerged in manufacturing, the approach continuously evolved and gained tremendous momentum in the services and healthcare industries. This book offers a thorough and pragmatic account of Lean Six Sigma project- and programme implementation with a special focus on applications in services and healthcare organizations.
This chapter comes from the Second Edition of Six Sigma Business Scorecard, which is filled with performance-measuring techniques that can be used throughout a corporation. This guidebook was designed to translate an organization's mission and business strategies into performance measures and operating objectives. Widely used around the world, it has become the linchpin of an integrated approach to taking the Six Sigma program of any company to the next level. Six Sigma Business Scorecard will show you how to implement a successful and a measurable Six Sigma program.
