Six Sigma

Six Sigma

Originally developed by Motorola in 1986, Six Sigma is quality management method that helps organizations to improve the capability of their business processes. This increase in performance and decrease in process variation lead to defect reduction and improvement in profits, employee morale and quality of products or services.

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incremental improvement

Quality management; Six Sigma

Improvement implemented on a continual basis.

efficient

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A term describing a process that operates effectively while consuming minimal resources (such as labor and time).

poisson distribution

Quality management; Six Sigma

A discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a number of events occurring in a fixed time period if these events occur with a known average rate, and are independent of the ...

five-phase lean approach

Quality management; Six Sigma

A systematic method for implementing lean manufacturing that helps improve the production process and sustains gains made in the production cycle in an area or plant. The five phases are: 1. ...

dependability

Quality management; Six Sigma

The degree to which a product is operable and capable of performing its required function at any randomly chosen time during its specified operating time, provided that the product is available at ...