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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material handling

Quality management; Six Sigma

Methods, equipment and systems for conveying materials to various machines and processing areas and for transferring finished parts to assembly, packaging and shipping areas.

European Cooperation for Accreditation (EA)

Quality management; Six Sigma

A cooperative organization of accreditation bodies.

operating characteristic (OC) curve

Quality management; Six Sigma

A graph to determine the probability of accepting lots as a function of the lots’ or processes’ quality level when using various sampling plans. There are three types: type A curves, which give the ...

satisfier

Quality management; Six Sigma

A term used to describe the quality level received by a customer when a product or service meets expectations.

single-minute exchange of dies

Quality management; Six Sigma

A series of techniques pioneered by Shigeo Shingo for changeovers of production machinery in less than 10 minutes. The long-term objective is always zero setup, in which changeovers are instantaneous ...

suboptimization

Quality management; Six Sigma

A condition in which gains made in one activity are offset by losses in another activity or activities that are caused by the same actions that created gains in the first activity.

chain sampling plan

Quality management; Six Sigma

In acceptance sampling, a plan in which the criteria for acceptance and rejection apply to the cumulative sampling results for the current lot and one or more immediately preceding lots.