Articles Tagged with ''Six Sigma''

Case Study: Lean Six Sigma Delivers for Pelco Products, Inc.

May 4, 2012
While many focus Lean Six Sigma on manufacturing, Pelco project focused on delivery.
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From the Editor: Questions

September 4, 2012
Asking the right ones.


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Management: The Secret to Sustaining Six Sigma

September 7, 2012
How do you sustain the improvements that are the result of a Six Sigma project?
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Speaking of Quality

The Life and Death...of Six Sigma (and its Training)

November 2, 2012
Six Sigma is dead! Long live Six Sigma!
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Six Sigma in Health Care: A New Prescription

December 4, 2012

Six Sigma is a firm belief that we can all be nearly perfect, do near-perfect work all of the time and that we have the potential to be creative. Perhaps the industry most in need of this creativity is health care.


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The Expanded Gage R&R Study

When a standard GR&R study is not enough, try an Expanded Gage R&R.
January 3, 2013

If you can’t trust your measurement system, you can’t trust the data it produces.


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Shifting the Paradigm: Lean Six Sigma Project: Team Orming Model

January 9, 2013

 Previous blogs described a business management system and how projects can be selected that benefits the enterprise as a whole. This blog is a second in a series which steps through various aspects of the Lean Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) roadmap for process improvement. 


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On Target with PDCA: A Quality Improvement Case Study

April 4, 2013

In this example of a quality improvement project the performance of a catapult needed improvement due to a high degree of variation in the distance traveled by a projectile.


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A Practical Field Guide for ISO 9001:2008

The purpose of this field guide is to assist organizations, step by step, in implementing a quality management system (QMS) in conformance with ISO 9001:2008, whether from scratch or by transitioning from ISO 9001:2000. It examines each sub-clause of Sections 4–8 of ISO 9001:2008, which contain the requirements, and gives a list of the documentation/documents required, internal audit questions, a summary of management’s responsibilities, and a flowchart of the steps that need to be undertaken to satisfy the requirements.

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