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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group dynamic

Quality management; Six Sigma

The interaction (behavior) of individuals within a team meeting.

Board of Standards Review (BSR)

Quality management; Six Sigma

An American National Standards Institute board responsible for the approval and withdrawal of American National Standards.

hoshin planning

Quality management; Six Sigma

Breakthrough planning. A Japanese strategic planning process in which a company develops up to four vision statements that indicate where the company should be in the next five years. Company goals ...

activity based costing

Quality management; Six Sigma

An accounting system that assigns costs to a product based on the amount of resources used to design, order or make it.

sample

Quality management; Six Sigma

In acceptance sampling, one or more units of product (or a quantity of material) drawn from a lot for purposes of inspection to reach a decision regarding acceptance of the lot.

validity

Quality management; Six Sigma

The ability of a feedback instrument to measure what it was intended to measure; also, the degree to which inferences derived from measurements are meaningful.

visual controls

Quality management; Six Sigma

Any devices that help operators quickly and accurately gauge production status at a glance. Progress indicators and problem indicators help assemblers see when production is ahead, behind or on ...