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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functional verification

Quality management; Six Sigma

Testing to ensure a part conforms to all engineering performance and material requirements.

International Automotive Task Force (IATF)

Quality management; Six Sigma

A cooperative group of automotive manufacturers and others primarily responsible for the development and launch of International Organization for Standardization Technical Specification 16949.

count chart

Quality management; Six Sigma

A control chart for evaluating the stability of a process in terms of the count of events of a given classification occurring in a sample; known as a “c-chart.”

attribute data

Quality management; Six Sigma

Go/no-go information. The control charts based on attribute data include percent chart, number of affected units chart, count chart, count per unit chart, quality score chart and demerit chart.

code of conduct

Quality management; Six Sigma

Expectations of behavior mutually agreed on by a team.

constraint

Quality management; Six Sigma

Anything that limits a system from achieving higher performance or throughput; also, the bottleneck that most severely limits the organization’s ability to achieve higher performance relative to its ...