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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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partnership
Quality management; Six Sigma
Both a strategy and a formal relationship between a supplier and a customer that engenders cooperation for the benefit of both parties.
American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA)
Quality management; Six Sigma
An organization that formally recognizes another organization’s competency to perform specific tests, types of tests or calibrations.
benefit-cost analysis
Quality management; Six Sigma
An examination of the relationship between the monetary cost of implementing an improvement and the monetary value of the benefits achieved by the improvement, both within the same time period.
value added
Quality management; Six Sigma
A term used to describe activities that transform input into a customer (internal or external) usable output.
layout inspection
Quality management; Six Sigma
The complete measurement of all dimensions shown on a design record.
problem solving
Quality management; Six Sigma
The act of defining a problem; determining the cause of the problem; identifying, prioritizing and selecting alternatives for a solution; and implementing a solution.
manufacturing resource planning (MRP II)
Quality management; Six Sigma
Material requirements planning, plus capacity planning and finance, interface to translate operational planning into financial terms and into a simulation tool to assess alternative production plans.