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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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instant pudding
Quality management; Six Sigma
A term used to illustrate an obstacle to achieving quality or the supposition that quality and productivity improvement are achieved quickly through an affirmation of faith rather than through ...
special causes
Quality management; Six Sigma
Causes of variation that arise because of special circumstances. They are not an inherent part of a process. Special causes are also referred to as assignable causes.
flow
Quality management; Six Sigma
The progressive achievement of tasks along the value stream so a product proceeds from design to launch, order to delivery and raw to finished materials in the hands of the customer with no ...
driving forces
Quality management; Six Sigma
Forces that tend to change a situation in desirable ways.
job instruction
Quality management; Six Sigma
Quality system documentation that describes work conducted in one function in a company, such as setup, inspection, rework or operator.
statistical correlation
Quality management; Six Sigma
A measure of the relationship between two data sets of variables.
special characteristic
Quality management; Six Sigma
Automotive ISO TS 16949 term for key product or process characteristics.
