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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pitch

Quality management; Six Sigma

The pace and flow of a product.

juran trilogy

Quality management; Six Sigma

Three managerial processes identified by Joseph M. Juran for use in managing for quality: quality planning, quality control and quality improvement.

registration

Quality management; Six Sigma

The act of including an organization, product, service or process in a compilation of those having the same or similar attributes.

Bayes’ theorem

Quality management; Six Sigma

A formula to calculate conditional probabilities by relating the conditional and marginal probability distributions of random variables.

acceptance sampling plan

Quality management; Six Sigma

A specific plan that indicates the sampling sizes and associated acceptance or nonacceptance criteria to be used. In attributes sampling, for example, there are single, double, multiple, sequential, ...

process average quality

Quality management; Six Sigma

Expected or average value of process quality.

in-control process

Quality management; Six Sigma

A process in which the statistical measure being evaluated is in a state of statistical control; in other words, the variations among the observed sampling results can be attributed to a constant ...