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.

Industry: Quality management

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average outgoing quality (AOQ)

Quality management; Six Sigma

The expected average quality level of an outgoing product for a given value of incoming product quality.

continuous flow production

Quality management; Six Sigma

A method in which items are produced and moved from one processing step to the next, one piece at a time. Each process makes only the one piece that the next process needs, and the transfer batch ...

Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC)

Quality management; Six Sigma

A cooperative of laboratory accreditation bodies.

task

Quality management; Six Sigma

A specific, definable activity to perform an assigned piece of work, often finished within a certain time.

jidohka

Quality management; Six Sigma

Stopping a line automatically when a defective part is detected. Any necessary improvements can then be made by directing attention to the stopped equipment and the worker who stopped the operation. ...

seven tools of quality

Quality management; Six Sigma

Tools that help organizations understand their processes to improve them. The tools are the cause and effect diagram, check sheet, control chart, flowchart, histogram, Pareto chart and scatter ...

number of affected units chart

Quality management; Six Sigma

A control chart for evaluating the stability of a process in terms of the total number of units in a sample in which an event of a given classification occurs.