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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ISO/TS 16949

Quality management; Six Sigma

International Organization for Standardization international technical specification for quality management systems, with particular requirements for the application of ISO 9001:2000 for automotive ...

TL 9000

Quality management; Six Sigma

A quality management standard for the telecommunications industry based on ISO 9000. Its purpose is to define the requirements for the design, development, production, delivery, installation and ...

statistics

Quality management; Six Sigma

A field that involves tabulating, depicting and describing data sets; a formalized body of techniques characteristically involving attempts to infer the properties of a large collection of data from ...

heijunka

Quality management; Six Sigma

A method of leveling production, usually at the final assembly line, that makes just-in-time production possible. It involves averaging both the volume and sequence of different model types on a ...

measure

Quality management; Six Sigma

The criteria, metric or means to which a comparison is made with output.

verification

Quality management; Six Sigma

The act of determining whether products and services conform to specific requirements.

process owner

Quality management; Six Sigma

The person who coordinates the various functions and work activities at all levels of a process, has the authority or ability to make changes in the process as required and manages the entire process ...