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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Toyota production system (TPS)

Quality management; Six Sigma

The production system developed by Toyota Motor Corp. to provide best quality, lowest cost and shortest lead time through eliminating waste. TPS is based on two pillars: just-in-time and jidohka. TPS ...

first pass yield (FPY)

Quality management; Six Sigma

Also referred to as the quality rate, the percentage of units that completes a process and meets quality guidelines without being scrapped, rerun, retested, returned or diverted into an offline ...

process improvement

Quality management; Six Sigma

The application of the plan-do-check-act cycle to processes to produce positive improvement and better meet the needs and expectations of customers.

availability

Quality management; Six Sigma

The ability of a product to be in a state to perform its designated function under stated conditions at a given time.

supply chain

Quality management; Six Sigma

The series of suppliers to a given process.

operations

Quality management; Six Sigma

Work or steps to transform raw materials to finished product.

lean manufacturing

Quality management; Six Sigma

An initiative focused on eliminating all waste in manufacturing processes. Principles of lean manufacturing include zero waiting time, zero inventory, scheduling (internal customer pull instead of ...