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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experimental design

Quality management; Six Sigma

A formal plan that details the specifics for conducting an experiment, such as which responses, factors, levels, blocks, treatments and tools are to be used.

nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT, NDE)

Quality management; Six Sigma

Testing and evaluation methods that do not damage or destroy the product being tested.

operating expenses

Quality management; Six Sigma

The money required for a system to convert inventory into throughput.

nonvalue added

Quality management; Six Sigma

A term that describes a process step or function that is not required for the direct achievement of process output. This step or function is identified and examined for potential elimination.

policy deployment

Quality management; Six Sigma

The selection of goals and projects to achieve the goals, designation of people and resources for project completion and establishment of project metrics.