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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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failure
Quality management; Six Sigma
The inability of an item, product or service to perform required functions on demand due to one or more defects.
taguchi methods
Quality management; Six Sigma
The American Supplier Institute’s trademarked term for the quality engineering methodology developed by Genichi Taguchi. In this engineering approach to quality control, Taguchi calls for off-line ...
vision
Quality management; Six Sigma
An overarching statement of the way an organization wants to be; an ideal state of being at a future point.
quality plan
Quality management; Six Sigma
A document or set of documents that describe the standards, quality practices, resources and processes pertinent to a specific product, service or project.
effect
Quality management; Six Sigma
The result of an action being taken; the expected or predicted impact when an action is to be taken or is proposed.
Kruskal-Wallis test
Quality management; Six Sigma
A nonparametric test to compare three or more samples. It tests the null hypothesis that all populations have identical distribution functions against the alternative hypothesis that at least one of ...
