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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culture change

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A major shift in the attitudes, norms, sentiments, beliefs, values, operating principles and behavior of an organization.

robustness

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The condition of a product or process design that remains relatively stable, with a minimum of variation, even though factors that influence operations or usage, such as environment and wear, are ...

voluntary standard

Quality management; Six Sigma

A standard that imposes no inherent obligation regarding its use.

process control

Quality management; Six Sigma

The method for keeping a process within boundaries; the act of minimizing the variation of a process.

reliability

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The probability of a product’s performing its intended function under stated conditions without failure for a given period of time.

alignment

Quality management; Six Sigma

Actions to ensure that a process or activity supports the organization’s strategy, goals and objectives.

just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing

Quality management; Six Sigma

An optimal material requirement planning system for a manufacturing process in which there is little or no manufacturing material inventory on hand at the manufacturing site and little or no incoming ...