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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design record

Quality management; Six Sigma

Engineering requirements, typically contained in various formats; examples include engineering drawings, math data and referenced specifications. Designing in quality versus inspecting in quality.

American National Standards Institute-American Society for Quality (ANSI-ASQ)

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Organization that accredits certification bodies for ISO 9001 quality management systems, ISO 14001 environmental management systems and other industry specific requirements.

autonomation

Quality management; Six Sigma

A form of automation in which machinery automatically inspects each item after producing it and ceases production and notifies humans if a defect is detected. Toyota expanded the meaning of jidohka ...

critical processes

Quality management; Six Sigma

Processes that present serious potential dangers to human life, health and the environment or that risk the loss of significant sums of money or customers.

Six Sigma

Quality management; Six Sigma

A method that provides organizations tools to improve the capability of their business processes. This increase in performance and decrease in process variation lead to defect reduction and ...

14 points

Quality management; Six Sigma

W. Edwards Deming’s 14 management practices to help companies increase their quality and productivity: 1. create constancy of purpose for improving products and services; 2. adopt the new philosophy; ...

reduced inspection

Quality management; Six Sigma

Inspection in accordance with a sampling plan requiring smaller sample sizes than those used in normal inspection. Reduced inspection is used in some inspection systems as an economy measure when the ...