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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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information flow
Quality management; Six Sigma
The dissemination of information for taking a specific product from order entry through detailed scheduling to delivery.
acceptance quality limit (AQL)
Quality management; Six Sigma
In a continuing series of lots, a quality level that, for the purpose of sampling inspection, is the limit of a satisfactory process average.
master black belt (MBB)
Quality management; Six Sigma
Six Sigma or quality expert responsible for strategic implementations in an organization. An MBB is qualified to teach other Six Sigma facilitators the methods, tools and applications in all ...
qualitician
Quality management; Six Sigma
Someone who functions as both a quality practitioner and a quality technician.
regression analysis
Quality management; Six Sigma
A statistical technique for determining the best mathematical expression describing the functional relationship between one response and one or more independent variables.
survey
Quality management; Six Sigma
The act of examining a process or questioning a selected sample of individuals to obtain data about a process, product or service.
acceptance number
Quality management; Six Sigma
The maximum number of defects or defectives allowable in a sampling lot for the lot to be acceptable.
