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.

Industry: Quality management

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conformity assessment

Quality management; Six Sigma

All activities concerned with determining that relevant requirements in standards or regulations are fulfilled, including sampling, testing, inspection, certification, management system assessment ...

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

Quality management; Six Sigma

Not-forprofit organization that provides a forum for the development and publication of voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems and services.

monument

Quality management; Six Sigma

Any design, scheduling or production technology with scale requirements that call for designs, orders and products to be brought to the machine to wait in line for processing. The opposite of a right ...

capacity constraint resources

Quality management; Six Sigma

A series of nonbottlenecks (based on the sequence in which jobs are performed) that can act as a constraint.

range chart (R chart)

Quality management; Six Sigma

A control chart in which the subgroup range, R, evaluates the stability of the variability within a process.

upper control limit (UCL)

Quality management; Six Sigma

Control limit for points above the central line in a control chart.

scatter diagram

Quality management; Six Sigma

A graphical technique to analyze the relationship between two variables. Two sets of data are plotted on a graph, with the y-axis being used for the variable to be predicted and the x-axis being used ...