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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highly accelerated life test (HALT)

Quality management; Six Sigma

A process for uncovering design defects and weaknesses in electronic and mechanical assemblies using a vibration system combined with rapid high and low temperature changes. The purpose of HALT is to ...

Six Sigma quality

Quality management; Six Sigma

A term generally used to indicate process capability in terms of process spread measured by standard deviations in a normally distributed process.

good laboratory practices (GLP)

Quality management; Six Sigma

144 requirements that control the procedures and operations of toxicology laboratories.

key performance indicator(KPI)

Quality management; Six Sigma

A predefined measure that is used to track performance of a strategic goal, objective, plan, initiative, or business process. A KPI is evaluated against a target. An explicit and measurable value ...

nonconforming record (NCR)

Quality management; Six Sigma

A permanent record—made in writing—for accounting and preserving the knowledge of a nonconforming condition for the purposes of documenting facts or events.

imperfection

Quality management; Six Sigma

A quality characteristic’s departure from its intended level or state without any association to conformance to specification requirements or to the usability of a product or service.