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TQM objectives
Total Quality Management (TQM) is a structured system for satisfying internal and external customers and suppliers by integrating the business environment, continuous improvement, and breakthroughs with development, improvement, [...]
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Cp index
Cp index is a statistical measure of process capability. This means that it is a measure of how capable a process is of producing output within specification limits. This measurement only has meaning when the process being examined is in a state of statistical control. Cp disregards centering, and is insensitive to “shifts and [...]
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Discover: recognize the need for Six Sigma and explore its potential impact on the company.
Decide: senior management approves the Six Sigma initiative, and then defines the purpose and scope of Six Sigma.
Organize: establish financial targets; set time lines; train senior executive team and Deployment Champions who are responsible for planning and mechanism building.
Initialize: create detailed [...]
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In the Analyze phase, the measurements collected in the Measure phase are analyzed so that hypotheses about the root causes of variations in the measurements can be generated and the hypothesis subsequently validated. It is at this stage that practical business problems are turned into statistical problems and analyzed as statistical problems. This includes:
generate [...]
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Liberal economics is making us depressed claims clinical psychologist Oliver James in his book Affluenza. James’s main thesis is that it is the system’s inequalities that drive us mad. For evidence, he compares the US - where 26.4% of the population has suffered mental illness over the past year -with countries like Nigeria and China, [...]
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Standardized Work is an agreed upon set of work procedures that establish the best method and sequences for each process. It defines the interaction of people using processes to produce a product. It is centered around human movements, it outlines efficient, safe work methods and helps eliminate muda/waste.
Standardized Work in processing and assembly, maintains quality [...]
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Two recipes for fixing the NHS have been on offer in the media recently. Sir Gerry Robinson’s attempt to galvanise Rotherham General Hospital was rather like a reality TV show, and his idea that one brilliant manager can get the service into shape is dangerous and deluded.
Far more encouraging was Peter Day’s In Business programme [...]
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To undertake hypothesis testing it is necessary to go through these following stages:
Decide on the null hypothesis, H0.
Decide on the alternate hypothesis, H1.
Decide on the significance level.
Calculate the appropriate test statistic, using the sample data.
Calculate the p-value.
Compare the p-value with the significance level, and decide whether to reject or accept the null hypothesis, H0.
The null [...]
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(Talk about pointless analysis !!)
Hmm, I’m not sure I agree with this post:
given that Lean/Six Sigma/Concurrent Design are really just a bag of tools from which a skilled mechanic will draw out one that is appropriate
Or even understand this post (perhaps one of my readers can translate this into English).
But I will [...]
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Stating that 6 Sigma performance represents 3.4 defects per million opportunities may not always be the best use of the term ‘defects’.
In some instances it should be replaced by ‘non-conformities’. However, in Six Sigma improvement projects one is not always confined to dealing with non-conformities as such. Sometimes the term ‘non-conforming items’, ‘events’ or ‘values’ [...]
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Are lean (TPS) and innovation incompatible - of course not (more articles here)!
Autounleashed presents the 2057 Toyota BioMobile Mecha Concept:
“It is year 2057 and due to limited ground space, vertical architectures have caused the transportation industry to create new pathways that also explore vertical space. An innovative solution is discovered in biomimicry. Inspired by life [...]
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Here’s a question:
Wouldn’t it be interesting to have a Six Sigma exercise to measure a person’s innate aptitude and passion for a customer-facing role from pre-sales, to sales, through service, at all management levels?
Erm, not to me but possibly to some (but not all) dumb leaders. They may read in a book, understand what [...]
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Some time ago I entered a competition over at the excellent gembapantarei which posed the question, “which of the 5S is hardest and why?”. Well, the winners have been announced but my own personal suggestion was:
the most difficult “S” is Sustain: (Shitsuke). Unless a Lean philosophy has been adopted then a 5S activity will not [...]
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There are a number of games which can be played in a classroom to simulate or teach lean principles:
The Nickel Game and the Dollar Game are useful in demonstrating some of the principles of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) — also useful for some related Lean principles …
Here here are videos (in “RealPlayer” format) that [...]
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