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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standardization

Quality management; Six Sigma

When policies and common procedures are used to manage processes throughout the system. Also, English translation of the Japanese word seiketsu, one of the Japanese 5S’s used for workplace ...

values

Quality management; Six Sigma

The fundamental beliefs that drive organizational behavior and decision making.

maintainability

Quality management; Six Sigma

The probability that a given maintenance action for an item under given usage conditions can be performed within a stated time interval when the maintenance is performed under stated conditions using ...

natural team

Quality management; Six Sigma

A team of individuals drawn from a single work group; similar to a process improvement team except that it is not cross functional in composition and it is usually permanent.

employee involvement (EI)

Quality management; Six Sigma

An organizational practice whereby employees regularly participate in making decisions on how their work areas operate, including suggestions for improvement, planning, goal setting and monitoring ...

accreditation body

Quality management; Six Sigma

An organization with authority to accredit other organizations to perform services such as quality system certification.

cycle time

Quality management; Six Sigma

The time required to complete one cycle of an operation. If cycle time for every operation in a complete process can be reduced to equal takt time, products can be made in single-piece flow.