Items Tagged with 'DMAIC '

I was watching an NFL Football game when I first heard it. The commentator—interestingly enough, the rules commentator, a new fixture in football broadcasts, in place to help the audience better understand the how’s and why’s of the way a game is being officiated—referred to the situation as a “50 guys in the bar standard.”

The purpose of this article is to show how a Quality practitioner can effectively enhance their Lean Six Sigma improvement efforts using available technology. Following the established framework of Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control, technology can enhance the coverage, predictability, and effectiveness of these in ways that exceed the limitations of manual work.

Successful Lean Six Sigma (LSS) deployment requires management leadership. Trained as LSS Champions, leaders sponsor and oversee projects, aligning them with strategic objectives and allocating resources.

Students at Ohio State's capstone program have led successful projects with various sponsors in manufacturing, service, healthcare, non-profit, and education. These projects create win-win outcomes, with sponsors reinforcing students’ learning and students driving positive change.

BlueSky Statistics, a powerful and intuitive statistical analysis software, is revolutionizing quality engineering and process improvement in the manufacturing industry to support all your process and quality improvement initiatives (well-known DMAIC methodology). 

This article explores the evolution of manufacturing data, the limitations of DMAIC in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and introduces Binary Classification of Quality (BCoQ) and Learning Quality Control (LQC) systems as part of Quality 4.0.

A world leader in rubber compounding needed to meet increasing customer expectations and heightened sustainability recommendations while continuing to grow and improve their business.

Greg Kinsey, Industry Executive at Hitachi, reveals how creative uses of the DMAIC process with digital transformation are helping factories to unlock the next level of process improvement.

For process manufacturing companies, it is a constant challenge to meet their customer’s product quality specifications, while operating as lean as possible. 

Discovering the underlying factors that influence compliance, product quality, production efficiency and your performance as a supplier requires greater accuracy and precision than many manufacturing metrics provide.